Just a quick post here with a couple of recently released maps from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve. The Philly Fed regularly updates state-level data for their coincident economic index, which is a snapshot of the current state of the economy,…
The passenger numbers from Savannah/Hilton Head International certainly aren’t the most important numbers that I follow. But the figures are interesting, and they’re clean in the sense of being valid for year-over-year comparisons. They’re also easy to find on the…
A few days ago, I posted a link to an AJC article about Georgians postponing major decisions because of the shaky economy. Well it’s hard to imagine a decision that’s more major than having children — and look at the…
You might want to wait a while before filling up the tank again. As I’ve noted before, gas prices of late have been increasing when the economy has seemed to be doing better — and falling when there are fresh…
A live studio version of “Wait”: From the band’s website: “For Years now, North Carolina’s The New Familiars have been touring & playing their own style of American Rock & Roll wherever and whenever they can. Drawing from the vast…
I’ve been writing a lot lately about something that seems pretty obvious to me: weak demand is at the heart of our current economic woes, not the manufactured short-term debt “crisis” or even the very real long-term debt and deficit…
For one of my first meals after I moved to Savannah in 1995, I met some new friends and colleagues at Vinnie’s at the west end of City Market on Franklin Square. I’ve been there countless times over the years,…
Peach Pundit has posted already today about Governor Deal’s plan to have the Georgia Legislature (now dealing with redistricting) move the proposed regional 1% transportation sales tax vote from July 2012 during the primary to November 2012’s general election. I…
I was thrilled to read in the NYT a few minutes ago that Philip Levine, the 83-year old Detroit native who held blue collar jobs as a young man, has been chosen by librarian of Congress James Billington as the…
Yesterday I posted a chart of how Monday’s selloff compared to other bad days in stock market history. So here’s a chart, via Calculated Risk, of the S&P 500 today compared to other days. It was certainly a curious day.…
[UPDATE, 8/23: For updated information on the payment policy for bands, go here.] In a post recently about John Mellencamp’s overpriced tickets to play the Johnny Mercer, I asked how much live music is really worth. Well, there’s an interesting…
When stocks crashed in 2008, I knew people who were relatively near retirement age and had inexplicably left nearly all their savings in the markets. So they resigned themselves to working a few more years — or as long as…
I’ll begin this post with a bit of candor: I moved almost all of my retirement savings out of stocks in the early part of 2010. So I missed the big run-up of the last 15 months, and I missed…
The city of Savannah is moving ahead with the planned conversion of Price Street from two lanes one-way with no on-street parking to a new concept with one lane of traffic, on-street parking where conditions allow, and a bike lane.…
