The top financial searches of 2021
The thing about investing is that it’s a lot easier to look back than forward. I will take the easy way out and talk about what was interesting in 2021. The website Investopedia has more than 20 million monthly readers. As you likely concluded by the website’s name, it draws a more investment-centric crowd than Google. Investopedia…
By Allen Harris
January 3, 2022
When will supply chain issues ease?
August 2022. Thank you for coming, everybody. Don’t forget to tip your waitstaff. Oh, you came for more than just the punchline? Well, pull up a chair and listen to me weave an oxymoronic tale of educated speculation. (“Educated speculation” — patent pending on that phrase.) I went to college in the early-to-mid 1990s. Back…
By Allen Harris
November 22, 2021
Pay up
Weekly pay is up 3.9 percent from March 2020 to March 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That may not sound like much. However, before the pandemic, growth rates had ranged from -0.8 percent to 2.9 percent, dating back to January 2011. From January 2011 to March 2020, there were 20 occurrences of zero…
By Allen Harris
June 1, 2021
Has inflation hit its peak?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an often-used gauge of inflation in the U.S. economy. On December 10, 2021, the CPI rate was a blistering 6.8 percent year-over-year (YoY), more than triple the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target and its highest level since 1982. Even though energy takes up less than 8 percent of the…
By Allen Harris
December 20, 2021