Ellen Griswold: “Clark, you’re driving on the wrong side of the road!” Clark Griswold: “I realize that honey. I’m also on the wrong side of the car.” –National Lampoon’s European Vacation You have probably read that the U.S. Dollar has been on a...
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Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released several statistics on income distribution and the news is decidedly mixed. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. The Gini Index, which measures income inequality, rose 1.2% last year to a new record...
My July 2022 post, More Cracks in the Housing Market, pointed out that new home sales fell in five of the first six months of the year but went on to state that the weakness in sales had not yet impacted prices. Well,...
The pandemic and world political tensions have brought into focus the security of raw material sources and manufacturing capacity. As a result, there is a mounting trend toward what is known as “reshoring” which refers to the relocation of critical goods manufacturing to...
My March 2022 white paper, Healthcare: An Examination, focused on the fact that the U.S has the lowest life expectancy of the “high income” countries despite spending more than twice as much per capita on healthcare as them. To add an exclamation point...
My recent white paper, The Water Crisis: All Dried Up, covered some of the science of hydrology explaining the scope, causes, and impact of the water crisis that is plaguing significant areas of the world. Closest to home, it pointed out that the...