Part 7 – Population Demographics: Fertility rates in sharp decline globally
(Part 5 has not yet been finished) Korea’s fertility rate is now 0.81 and the country’s population will be cut in half within 50 years. OECD Data When the fertility…
Part 6 – Population Demographics: Walmart
(Parts 4 and 5 are still in progress and editing) Today I stopped at Walmart to pick up some groceries. I don’t know for sure that they have a staffing…
Part 3 – Population Demographics: Honey, I shrunk the U.S. population
The U.S. fertility rate today is 1.78. A rate of 2.1 is needed to maintain the population at its current size. The U.S. population continues to grow because of immigration.…
Energy disaster in Europe may last a decade
The next “5 to 10 winters will be difficult,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo warned on Monday as energy prices in Europe soared to new records. Source: 10 ‘Difficult’…
Part 1 – Population Demographics: The decline in the U.S. workforce
We have very low unemployment and there is a shortage of workers. Typically, this is blamed on Covid-19 and/or pandemic policies. Both had an impact on employment but there is…
Inflation will be mild and temporary, said the experts: “Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected”
Expertise has committed mass suicide the past 2 1/2 years. Mild and temporary. Right. The consumer price index, soared 9.1% from a year ago, above the 8.8% Dow Jones estimate.…
The incredible shrinking product sizes
I’m so old, I remember when our technocratic elite said it would be just 15 days to flatten the curve. And here we are 2 1/2 years later, and that…
During the pandemic, government spending rose to one-third of personal income, before declining
Source Transfer payments are payment made without a contemporary and corresponding delivery of a good or service. In other words, when you buy groceries, you give money to a store…
Zoning changes: Goal is to make U.S. cities similar to old European cities
At the core of this housing supply action plan is a federal push to budge local zoning codes that restrict or forbid apartments across vast swaths of the country. Strict…
The U.S. Already Has a Wealth tax: It’s called inflation
Our very elevated inflation rate is a wealth tax on cash assets, and on other assets too that do not appreciate “in value”. If you had $100 one year ago,…