http://www.relentlesseconomics.com Linda Nazareth's Relentless Economics Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:39:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=425 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=425#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:04:00 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=425 Last time, I talked about who the middle-young ratio (ratio of 40somethings to 20somethings in the population) correlated with financial market activity in the U.S. and Canada. A population with a lot of 40somethings poured money into the stock markets through the 1990s, then a slightly older one held back a little on equities. The [...]]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=425 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=411 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=411#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:12:28 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=411 Aging population – market time bomb?   Okay, that’s a sensationalistic way to put it, but that’s certainly one of the fears people have about an the shifting demographics in North America. Last time around I looked at how portfolio size tends to trend lower as people go past 65. All things being equal, the [...]]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=411 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=401 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=401#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:52:26 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=401 Demographic shifts are going to shake up your portfolio. Part I: How portfolios change over a lifetime.]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=401 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=395 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=395#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:50:09 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=395 Tiger Mom book will sound good to parents of Gen Ys and Gen Zs.]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=395 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=394 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=394#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:16:07 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=394 well maybe – but not neccessarily. See my blog for the bnn site at http://www.bnn.ca/Blogs/2011/01/07/Match-made-in-heaven-Oil-prices-and-US-recessions.aspx]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=394 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=374 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=374#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 01:22:11 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=374 I like offbeat economic indicators – the number of boats or RVs sold, what colors are in the crayon box, etc. etc. A lot of time they tell you what is going on just as well as some of the stuffier stuff  (y’know, GDP and all that)  that we all track every day.  So I was [...]]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=374 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=366 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=366#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:50:29 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=366 Now that the U.S. economy looks a just a teensy bit better (I know, I know the National Bureau of Economic Research won’t say that the recession is over, but still) it’s probably okay to start adding up the cost of the crisis. The Pew Research Institute has a new study out that does just [...]]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=366 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=350 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=350#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:08:32 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=350 Okay, this one seemed a little out of sync for me: doctors would apparently be employees than free agents. Or at least that’s what the New York Times says, in this article that was splashed across the front of the  business page. According to the Medical Group Management Association, in 2005 about two-thirds of medical [...]]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=350 0 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=335 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=335#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:19:48 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=335 Oh the labor shortage thing: it get dredged up every so often, and not without cause. We all know the theory behind it, more or less. The boomers are aging, and they are going ot exit the labor force. The generation coming up behind them was not nearly as plentiful in numbers, so they won’t [...]]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=335 1 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=327 http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=327#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:09 +0000 Linda Nazareth http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?p=327 Here’s an interesting study (by non-profit consultants Convio)  on how the different U.S. generations are doling out money to charity.  Turns out that everybody is still pretty generous in their giving (recession or no recession), but that not all charities are doing a good job in reaching the people that might write the checks. Actually, not all [...]]]> http://www.relentlesseconomics.com/?feed=rss2&p=327 0