US Top Trading Partner Inflation 4.3 Percent, Trending Up
We wrote about US inflation topping out at a whopping 7.5 percent last week so we were curious about inflation with the U.S. top trading partners and the math came…
Palm Oil & Malaysia’s Labor Problem
We’ve discussed demographics problems in the US, China, and Germany but the aging demographic problem isn’t limited to those countries. Finance Yahoo had a great article from Bloomberg on the…
Germany’s Demographic Problem
A very good article from Reuters via Yahoo Finance about Germany’s ongoing demographic problem worthy of a read in its entirety. Germany’s new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified…
China Has Their Own ‘Boomer’ Problem
We’ve written quite a deal about America’s baby boomer but China has it’s own problem with their population. Unlike the US where the problem is simply aging, China’s problem is…
US Export Prices Up 18.2 Percent
Last week, the BLS released a report on November’s US export prices which have been the highest since 1984. Of great concern were agricultural prices which were up 21.4 percent…
Global Economic Outlook + Today’s Fed Decision
While everyone is talking about Wednesday’s FOMC meeting where the Fed announced: In addition, the Federal Reserve will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by at least $80…
Pakistan Central Bank Ups Rate 100 Points 9.75 Percent
From Finance Yahoo News, Pakistan recently upped their central bank rate to 9.75 percent which represents a 100 basis point increase. Rising inflation is hitting the country’s sizeable poor and…
What About Retiring Abroad?
If you read our recent depressing post about the general direction of wages, explosive costs of health insurance, health care, education, housing and en mass boomer retirements, then you would…
Key US Trading Partners: Inflation, Bank Rates and Pain
Friday’s 6.8 percent inflation rate for the U.S. has us thinking about the rise in inflation globally and we have been doing some research. Specifically, we were interested in finding…
JOLTS, UK Labor, and Food
Today’s theme is food and labor. We have reports from Campbell Soup that high labor costs are pinching profits and inflation doesn’t seem to be abating. United Natural Foods reported…