My recent post, Plastics, focused on the daunting task that recent computer science graduates are facing in gaining employment in their field. The great irony is that coding was considered the skill of the future as recently as 2021 when 104,000 degrees were...
Those of us of a certain age periodically think wistfully about how wonderful it would be to be young again. Well, today, perhaps not so much. The reality is that young people are having a tough time entering the job market, and the...
To counteract inflation which peaked at an annual rate of 9% in June of 2022, the Fed increased short term interest rates eleven times between March of 2022 and July of 2023. As inflation began to moderate, it made the first of three...
One of the stated objectives of the Administration’s trade policy is to stimulate a revival of American manufacturing that will reverse the long term decline in the number of manufacturing jobs. In 2024, only 8% of the total workforce was engaged in manufacturing...
During the burst of inflation that took place from early 2021 to late in 2023, our Investment Team maintained that a cooling-off in the labor market and resulting moderation in wage growth was a prerequisite for return to more normal increases in consumer...
