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Unemployment Claims are up in August. Don’t know if this is an indicator of things to come or changes in how it is reported. Driving the news: The Labor Department said that 262,000 people filed new jobless claims last week, the highest since January and up from a low of… Read More »August Unemployment Claims

It looks like the lower end of the income spectrum got hit as inflation in food prices is still rising.

The inflation numbers are better news and the stock market is taking it as a sign the interest rates won’t rise, which is good news if the worst is truly behind us. I’m still not sure 8.5% inflation YOY is something to celebrate. The U.S. inflation rate came down in… Read More »July Inflation Numbers

Labor productivity has taken a dive, which may also explain why salaries have stay stagnant and not kept up with inflation. Greater productivity creates greater profits and better salaries. In the first half of the year, a lot more Americans were working a lot more hours. In the first half… Read More »Labor Productivity

Depending on what this new bill actually does to inflation, I can only be happy that people are still optimistic as gas prices retreat $.50 from their all time high, still much higher than two or four years ago. Survey respondent are still expecting 6.2% over the next year. As… Read More »Inflation Expectations

Even though we are mostly wine drinkers in our household, I’m sure the stats are similar for wine consumption. I thought this was interesting in how consumption habits have changed and not changed. More people are opting to drink beer at home than they did before the pandemic, according to Statista’s… Read More »Drinking Out vs Drinking at Home

Here are the attributes of Buyers $5MM-$50MM according the the 2022 Q1 Market Pulse Survey. Survey Report Q1 2022 The quarterly IBBA and M&A Source Market Pulse Survey was created to gain an accurate understanding of the market conditions for businesses being sold in Main Street (values $0-$2MM) and the… Read More »Buyers $5MM-$50MM

Here are the attributes of Buyers $2MM-$5MM according the the 2022 Q1 Market Pulse Survey. Survey Report Q1 2022 The quarterly IBBA and M&A Source Market Pulse Survey was created to gain an accurate understanding of the market conditions for businesses being sold in Main Street (values $0-$2MM) and the… Read More »Buyers $2MM-$5MM

Here are the attributes of Buyers $1MM-$2MM according the the 2022 Q1 Market Pulse Survey. Survey Report Q1 2022 The quarterly IBBA and M&A Source Market Pulse Survey was created to gain an accurate understanding of the market conditions for businesses being sold in Main Street (values $0-$2MM) and the… Read More »Buyers $1MM-$2MM