There are increasing signs that inflation is on the rise, and there may be nothing we can do to stop it.
As if the high prices and poor availability of business insurance, workers comp, health insurance, steel, copper, stainless and cement were not enough, now we may be faced with a potentially more dreaded enemy: inflation.
All of you young bucks out there who have been out of school and in the roof contracting business for less than 20 years may not be able to relate to this message, but stay with me. Those of us who lived and worked in the late 1960s through the early 1980s have a somewhat different definition of the economic term "inflation" than the one with which you have grown up and lived.