Yesterday’s post about the euro ended with brief speculation about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s possible involvement in supporting Europe. And then this morning early, the Fed joined other major central banks in a coordinated move that will add liquidity to…
Month: November 2011
Savannah Stopover Festival – Various Venues – 03/07/12
The 2012 Savannah Stopover Festival is scheduled for March 7th through 10th. This will be the second installment of the festival, which proved wildly successful in its first year. I made a lot of posts tagged “Savannah Stopover”, which you…
Will it be unlucky 13 for the euro?
The euro was adopted on January 1st, 1999, so the currency is about to turn 13. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, or a numerologist, or a triskaidekaphobe. But 13 might turn out to be a very unlucky number. I’ve written…
Savannah makes another list — a really insipid one; Charleston nowhere to be found
Travel and Leisure’s list of America’s Strangest People ranks Savannah as #7. Ahead of us are, beginning with the top spot, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Austin, Portland (OR), San Francisco, and Providence. What makes Savannahians strange? According to the non-answer…
The world’s largest zombie walk? (video)
A change of pace. (ht to the WonkBlog at the Washington Post) Nearly 10,000 people participated in this zombie walk in Mexico City, according to the BBC: From the BBC: Zombie walks have grown in popularity worldwide in recent years.…
Can today get any worse for state economic news?
Earlier today, I posted the latest data from the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices, which showed Atlanta metro area home prices declining dramatically in September: “On a monthly basis, Atlanta actually posted a record low rate of -5.9% in September…
Case Shiller shows home prices down in September; Atlanta has nation’s worst decline
There are lots of ways of looking at today’s release of the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices for September. The index actually uses three months of data — July, August, and September, in this case — and is released both…
The Savannah River deepening, as seen from Charleston
An interesting piece in Sunday’s Charleston Post and Courier: What’s at stake with Savannah dredging? The piece is laid out as a Q&A, with generally clear responses to basic historical questions as well as more immediate ones. The piece includes…
A few updates to this blog
Hello all. Thanks to those of you who have been reading Savannah Unplugged regularly. And thanks to those of you who check in only occasionally or are here for the first time. Almost all new posts are announced via Twitter.…
Some thoughts on the Savannah Morning News endorsement of Edna Jackson for Savannah mayor
All my posts about the 2011 Savannah elections can be found here. This morning, the Savannah Morning News editorial page endorsed Edna Jackson over Jeff Felser for mayor of Savannah. The runoff is Tuesday, Dec. 6th, when somewhere around 24,000…
In some cities, home prices and rents are coming back into sync, according to the WSJ
When I moved to Savannah in 1995, I paid $625/month in rent for a large parlor level apartment on East Gwinnett Street just off the park. It was a newly rehabbed space, and there were plenty of much cheaper places…
Update on Savannah, Georgia, and U.S. gas prices
It’s been about a month since I’ve posted about gas prices. As of right now (Friday evening), GasBuddy.com reports that the Savannah average for regular unleaded at the pump is $3.166/gallon; the Georgia average is $3.191; the U.S. average is…
Richard Florida on “The Geography of Stuck”
I write pretty often about mobility in America, including this very recent post about migration into and out of Savannah and Chatham County. Richard Florida has a pithy and interesting post today at The Atlantic Cities: The Geography of Stuck.…
Is the 1% better off than they used to be?
A quick post regarding income inequality, relying on a couple of wonkish resources. I have made several posts on this subject. First off, there’s really no disputing that income inequality has been steadily increasing in America for decades. Wealth distribution…