BLS: CPI August 2024
The BLS released the August CPI Report and there is finally progress on inflation. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - AUGUST 2024The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2…
July 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the July 2024 snapshot and it’s a 217% jump from last month but we think last month was an anomaly but the trend has returned…
BLS: CPI July 2024
Hooray? The BLS released the July CPI report and many are cheering the report but we’re not sure why? From the BLS: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - JULY 2024The Consumer Price…
BLS: PPI July 2024
The BLS released the PPI report for July and, in our view, it’s not good. From the BLS: The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.1 percent in July,…
Cisco vs NVIDIA vs Intel
Back in August 24, we wrote an article entitled, “Is NVIDIA the new Cisco?” and included the chart below. Last August, the talking heads on business networks were all touting…
Labor Shortages – August 2024
It’s August 2024 and we are still seeing massive labor shortages. Wait? What? Did we say labor shortages right when everyone was hollering about a surge in unemployment? What’s going…
Inflation Will Spike Again
While the world is cheering lower inflation and some central banks around the world have been cutting rates with the United States potentially poised to cut rates in September, we…
Stock Market Crash Charts – Revisited
We’ve been looking at economic data and it’s bad. It’s part of the reason we had not made any recent posts. We did not want to share dire economic news…
Skilled Labor Shortages = Chaos
Earlier this week, we wrote a post about the current 72.376 million people on social security. Today, Crowdstrike uploaded a patch that crippled computers world wide. No doubt there will…
June 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the June 2024 snapshot and it’s another jump in enrollments. For June 2024, there were 135,000 net new social security enrollees over the age of…