Headlines from Across the MAP
Feb 10, 2022The latest monthly jobs report was much better than expected, but nonetheless finds employers across the U.S. still crying out in vain for workers. Goods are undelivered for want of truckers. Code is unwritten for want of coders. Hotel beds are unmade for want of bed makers, with both Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. and Marriott International Inc. dispensing with automatic daily housekeeping at their non-luxury properties. Even the Internal Revenue Service’s struggle to have enough people to deal with taxes on time is bordering on the apocalyptic.
- Visual Capitalist: "Visualizing the State of Global Debt, by Country"
- Zero Hedge: "A Record Number Of Robots Joined American Workforce In 2021 Amid COVID Labor Crunch"
- NPR: "The U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today's digital world"
- Bloomberg: "America Is Facing a Great Talent Recession"
- The Wall Street Journal: "In Covid-19 Housing Market, the Middle Class Is Getting Priced Out"
- Visual Capitalist: "Ranked: The Top 10 Countries by Energy Transition Investment"
- McKinsey & Company: "The raw-materials challenge: How the metals and mining sector will be at the core of enabling the energy transition"
- The Wall Street Journal: "Worker Absences From Covid-19 Hold Back Companies’ Growth"
- Reuters: "U.S. household debt increased by $1 trillion in 2021, the most since 2007"
