Labor Shortages: Airlines Dire Straits
The music group Dire Straits has a song entitled, “Money For Nothing” and that appears to be what the airlines conjured up for last year and will repeat again this…
A Sneak Peak For Boomers in 2030
The core thesis on this site has centered around the upcoming “Boomerpocalypse” where we see 60 million boomers all hit the retirement age of 65 in 2030. We’ve cautioned repeatedly…
WSJ: Millions Won’t Return To Labor Force
The Wall Street Journal had an excellent article written by Josh Mitchell on how millions of workers have left the labor force with no plans to return…ever. We encourage you…
Is The U.S. Health Care System About To Collapse?
We like to conduct research through as many unconventional lenses as possible and to that end, we periodically stroll through different internet sites like Reddit.com to see what people are…
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…
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…
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…
Upcoming Boomer Caused Shortages 2021-2030
In attempting to find investing opportunities over the next decade, we wanted to focus on where and when shortages would arise driven by boomers. We have already seen labor shortages…
Key US Trading Partners: Inflation, Bank Rates and Pain
Friday’s 6.8 percent inflation rate for the U.S. has us thinking about the rise in inflation globally and we have been doing some research. Specifically, we were interested in finding…