I’m only simplifying a little when I say that when we have recently seen the economy weaken and recession fears increase, gas prices have slipped. That’s a good thing in a weakening economy, but gas prices are still well above…
An interesting piece on Sunday in the NYT: Poe Museum Is Threatened With ‘Nevermore’. (Since I started this draft, the title has changed: Fiscal Woe Haunting Baltimore Poe House). From the piece: For a second year city leaders have chosen…
Well this is sort of depressing news. The 36-year old rapper Antwan Patton, better known as Big Boi and half of Outkast, was arrested in Miami. According to CNN, bonds of $16,000 were set. Big Boi is a Savannah native…
Adam Van Brimmer has another interesting and detailed piece about a specific sector of the Savannah housing market today in the Savannah Morning News: Berwick victim of poor timing; will be a ‘viable’ market as economy improves, Realtors say. The…
Did Americans not know we were running up massive debt over the last 10 years? Was everyone just ignoring all the bad numbers because of . . . well, what exactly? I’m thrilled that average Americans are now concerned about…
Just a reminder that voting for the new Georgia license plate ends on Monday, August 8th at 3 p.m. Just a few notes on the vote: I posted about some of the confusion and controversy over the optional $1 “In…
On Wednesday morning, when the presale tickets for John Mellencamp’s Nov. 11th show at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah went on sale, I hopped online at 10 a.m., got the presale password, jumped over to the Savannah Civic Center…
Last night’s rating downgrade of the U.S. debt by Standard & Poor’s will probably have minimal economic impact. In an increasingly uncertain global economy, U.S. debt still looks like a pretty good buy so we’ll see little if any change…
I’ve written before about the bad property investments made by prominent Georgians. Now there’s this really funny (it is, right?) wrinkle in the saga of Governor Deal and his support for his daughter and son-in-law’s failed attempt at a sporting…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States added a seasonally adjusted 117,000 jobs in June. That’s a fairly weak number, but it was higher than expectations after some of the weak economic data that was recently released.…
There’s a new video from the Tybee Island Tourism Council promoting Tybee as a destination that’s relaxing, quirky, historical, a little wild — pretty much what I think of Tybee on its best days. Karl Strauch and Coastal Marketing Group…
Stocks fell dramatically today, but we’ve seen plenty of larger one day declines. In terms of percentage drops for the S&P 500, we actually had 11 days with worse declines in 2008 and 2 more in the opening weeks of…
I’ll have more to say later about today’s big stock sell off, but some might be interested in a post I made a little over three weeks ago: Thoughts on the Main Street/Wall Street disconnect In today’s Washington Post, in…
I’ve previously written about proposed removal of the I-16 flyover in Savannah. The project would actually improve traffic flow (according to the Georgia Department of Transportation), add dozens of acres to the private tax rolls, and add hundreds of yards…
