Most Affordable Housing Market In America
The housing market’s days of increasing prices every month are over. A two-year period when home prices rose by 20% each month year over year has been undermined by high mortgage rates that have…
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The 2023 Recession
A recession, despite debate about whether it will appear at all, has begun and will deepen as 2023 starts. It will last the year and may affect the economy into 2024. Some trends that…
Amazon Could Spin Off Prime Video
For years there has been speculation that Amazon might be broken into pieces. One reason is that Amazon is worth more than the sum of its pieces to shareholders. The other is that the…
Only 21 Shopping Days Until Christmas
December started this week. Retailers have less than a month to post sales results that will be the most important in years. Shopper activity will be affected by inflation and a slowing economy, although…
Will Social Security Be Solvent in 2035?
Can the Social Security Administration continue payments it is obligated to make for Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Disability Insurance Trust Fund?
Counties Where Home Prices May Be Hit Hard
A recent analyst reveals that these New Jersey counties have the best chance of falling home prices.
McDonald’s Wants People to Eat Faster
McDonald’s has a new plan for drive-thru customers to grab its food even faster.
Tyson Should Fire CFO Tyson
In public corporations controlled by one family or person, poor decisions have no consequences and bad management is rewarded.
The City Where Home Prices Will Surge in 2023
Americans will not be able to dodge higher home prices next year, but in several markets, they will barely rise.
States With $3 Gas
Gasoline prices have fallen sharply since summer, and the price has dropped below $3 a gallon in several states.
EV Companies Most Likely to Fold
It has become clear that large car companies and Tesla will own the EV market. Smaller companies eventually will disappear.
America’s Cheapest Housing Market
People who want an inexpensive home can look in Detroit. The downside is that no one wants to live there.
Europe’s Inflation Is on Fire
Inflation in the United States is not nearly over and will look like Europe’s inflation soon.
Warner Bros Discovery CEO Zaslav Faces Dumpster Fire
Warner Bros. Discovery's CEO was supposed to be the smartest media executive in the industry. That has not worked out at all.
US Postal Service Average Pay $60,000
The U.S. Postal Service is a disservice to America as long as it overpays workers, has too many offices and delivers mail too often.
Iger’s Disney Plans Look a Lot Like Chapek’s
Bob Iger’s comments to Disney’s senior management largely centered around support of plans by his predecessor, Bob Chapek.
Ford’s Lincoln Division in Big Trouble
Lincoln is Ford’s most visible failure, and the company has no way to change that except to end the brand.
Postal Service Needs to Fire Postmaster General DeJoy
The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service can replace Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, and it should.
Disney CEO Iger Could Push Out Board Chair Arnold
Now that Bob Chapek is back as Disney CEO, he may want to be board chair again too.
JCPenney Has 670 Stores Left
Like other retailers whose businesses have weakened significantly in recent years, 2022 will make or break JCPenney.