City Services Chaos 2022
If you haven’t heard about the labor shortage around the country then you can catch up by reading this, this, this, and this. Now that you are caught up, let’s…
A Closer Look At Truckers and Driver Shortages
The Atlantic had an excellent article written by Dariusz Matejko as told to Sonya Matejko about what one long term veteran of the trucking industry thinks the problem is with…
How Long Does It Take To Replace Professionals?
One key narrative on this blog has been about the coming “boomergeddon” where by tens of million of baby boomers will hit age 65+ in the year 2030. As a…
University Apocalypse 2025
Over the holidays we met with various families and people and discussed many topics including our favorite: demographics. One of the family members I spoke to works at a university…
Boomer Consequences: Pilots, Truckers, Nursing and More…Shortages
Unless you have been living under a rock, you should be aware of an acute nurse shortage largely caused by Covid these past two years but the problem existed years…
Cumulative Risk: 2030 Catastrophic Failure?
A news article that came out on Saturday had us thinking about total global debt which has now reached 226 trillion dollars. We wanted to take it a step further…
What’s Happening With Hourly Wages? T-Rex Will Eat First
The future of hourly wages for many workers seem to be moving up. T-mobile recently announced that it would raise minimum wage to $20/hour. Earlier in the year, Bank of…
It’s The Boomers Stupid!
In the not too distant future, we think “It’s the boomers stupid” will become the cliche of the day. In 1992, James Carville came up with a similar phrase, “It’s…
Real Estate During Inflation
Under normal circumstances, real estate during inflationary period makes perfect sense because debt (mortgages) held against the property generally gets inflated away over time during high inflationary periods. Unfortunately housing…
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…