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…
Inflation at 7.5 Percent!
The big news out today from the BLS is that inflation is running at 7.5 percent for all items measured in the index. To put this into context, if you…
What If Boomers Don’t Quit?
The Wall Street Journal had a great report by Lisa Bannon on what an age 60+ workforce might look like over the next decade. We’ve been pondering this ourselves and…
Food Inflation, Rural Depletion and Vertical Farming
The Guardian is reporting that Tesco’s chairman, the UK’s largest grocer, is expecting food inflation of a whopping 5% for 2022. “In some ways the worst is still to come…
Recession or Expansion?
The great debate seems to be whether we are headed in for a recession or an expansion. The latest jobs report shows more jobs added than expected at 467,000 and…
Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse
In Demographics and the Tough Choices Ahead earlier in the week, we made the case that tough choices will need to be made about whether the US labor forces chooses…
Boomer Math: y=41.228249x + 3032.9326
Do you remember high school algebra? Perhaps you were a specially smart kid and took algebra in the seventh or eight grade and already know what this formula might be:…
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…
Covered Calls and Naked Puts (for extra income)
Given an over heated and wild stock market, we thought it would be a great time to describe how we buy stocks in these markets. Our investing premise is the…
Employment Cost Index Up
The BLS released the Employment Cost Index and the numbers continue to climb which means inflation is continuing to grow where it hurts businesses the most: labor costs. If the…