A Sneak Peak At 2030
We recently came across a great demographic book, The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny by Bradley Schurman that dives into the demographic quagmire society will find itself in over…
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…
Labor Shortage, Wages Heats Up
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about how businesses in Louisville, Kentucky such as UPS are having to up the hourly wage to $20/hour to find and retain…
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…
Breaking Point – What Will Cause The Next Economic Crash After Covid?
Did you hear the news? The median price for a home is now $404,000 as of August 2021. While homeowners are rejoicing for their new found wealth, smart home owners…
Extrapolating Boomers, Big Pharma and Profit (Part 2)
A while back we began some high level research into where big pharma was making money. We started with a review of pharmaceutical spend by Medicare and Medicaid and came…
What is the Future of Health Insurance in 2030 When All the Boomers Go Medicare?
In 2030, all 70+ million baby boomers will have reached the age of 65 or older making them eligible to enroll in the medicare social health care system. With this…
US JOLTS Report – Is it the boomers?
Yesterday the US Jolts reported, Job openings were little changed at 10.4 million on the last business day of September. Hires and total separations were little changed at 6.5 million…
The Case For Long Term Deflation
If we define “inflation” as the rise in cost of wages, goods and services then deflation is the drop in cost of wages, goods and services. For many years prior…
Our first port of call – Demographics
As we set sail for the economic future we need to understand one fundamental thing about economics and that is that economics is about people. If the animal kingdom has…