September 7, 2023 Data: FRED, BLS; Chart: Simran Parwani/Axios America faces significant headwinds for labor, including demographics (Boomer retirements), immigration, and both Covid and non-Covid excess deaths over the…
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May 31, 2023 Our series on the current state of the economy started with a discussion of America’s labor shortage, a significant driver in price increases and inflation, followed by commentary…
March 21, 2023 When we started this series, we promised a discussion on if/when/how American consumers would dial back their spending. In teasing that second post, we had a…
February 28, 2023 We recently presented at the Young President’s Organization Retail Property Symposium in Phoenix. Top of mind for the group was how the American Consumer is adapting…
WeinPlus is excited to welcome Essential Growth Properties to the WeinPlus family. After working closely with Nick Hodge at The Kroger Co., we look forward to working together again…
[Note: We took the summer off from the newsletter, no I didn’t unsubscribe you, thank you to those that noticed and asked for more!] Consumer spending drives the American…
June 2, 2022 We are in the midst of an extreme dislocation between spending on goods and services brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic—that much is fact. But three…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, businesses that were formed in 2009 had a 23% failure rate in their first year, half made it to five years, and…
We’re days away from Christmas, the busiest days for retail spending are upon us, and even for those of us that track this data regularly, there are conflicting indicators…
We started this series with an Origin Story, a little ditty about how we got to where we are today. Sure, we threw the customer under the bus a…
