Another Nursing Home Files For Bankruptcy
Last week in The Labor Battle Intensifies: Healthcare vs Retail, we wrote about how QHC filed for bankruptcy citing severe labor shortage as the main cause. This week Eagle Senior…
Wage Inflation Powers on in 2022
Goldman Sachs CEO had something interesting to say recently and if this firm is having trouble retaining people then what do you think that says about hiring across America? Goldman…
Evictions Are Here, What’s The Fall Out?
Since covid began, most people have been free to skip rent payments for both residential and commercial properties but those days have come to an end so what’s going to…
Top 10 Global Consumer Trends from Euromonitor
Euromonitor released their consumer trends outlook for 2022 and it’s worth a read. You can download the full report here. A common theme across the list we think is appropriate…
Worker Strikes Across America
While everyone is aware of the great resignation of 2021 very few are paying attention to the great worker strikes across America. Let’s take a tour of what’s happening now.…
Bad Batch of December Economic Data
The latest economic news releases show a bit of bad data for December, retail sales down however with store shelves emptying out and items hard to find, it isn’t really…
One Million Fewer College Students in 2022
NPR is reporting that there were one million fewer students in college since covid began and in our opinion the situation may not improve. More than 1 million fewer students…
The Next Civil War Will Be About Labor Not Politics
If you enjoy economic blogs it is likely you enjoy reading up on politics too. We often read, and shake our head, at most of the political nonsense that happens…
US & Trading Partner Inflation
The big headlines today were that US inflation for 2021 topped out at a whopping 7 percent. To put that into perspective, if you have a $100,000 per year salary,…
Food Shortages in 2022
Both CNN and CNBC are reporting on the depletion of food stocks at most grocery stores so we went out and took a look for ourselves and we can confirm…