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...
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The Inflation Reduction Act (“Act”) was passed by the Senate on August 7th, the House on August 12th, and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16th. This bill enacts some of the provisions from the Build Back Better Act, but...
The pandemic produced a number of fascinating phenomena including the surge in demand for homes and housing related goods, an explosion in stock trading by individual investors, the rise of meme stocks, the “Great Resignation,” and shortages of many types of goods. Perhaps...
All of us are aware of the phenomenon known as The Great Resignation in which a record number of people are leaving their jobs, in many cases without having secured another position. As depicted in the following graph, the percentage of the workforce...
My May 26th blog Cracks in the Housing Market? raised the question of whether rising home prices and mortgage interest rates were finally beginning to impact the demand for housing. Well, new data suggests that higher housing costs are indeed having an impact....
The following chart provides a breakdown of consumer spending by category for 2019. Spending patterns changed significantly during the pandemic due to the lack of accessibility to many types of services, but this depiction is probably fairly representative of our post-pandemic behavior. (This...