This video speaks for itself. I suggest going full screen:
Today Sears released the names of 79 Sears or Kmart stores that will be closed. Another 20 to 40 stores are expected to be added to this list. According to the company, “a typical store that is being closed employs…
This is the 2nd of an indeterminate number of posts with other analysts’ and columnists’ economic predictions for 2012. I posted David Wessel’s from the WSJ here (it’s referenced in this post). If you’re interested in sober, thoughtful, and comprehensible…
My upcoming City Talk column (New Year’s Day) is devoted to my predictions for the local Savannah economy in 2012, so as a prelude I’m going to round up some opinions about the national economy and post them here on…
Many of us in Savannah got our first listen to The Shaniqua Brown at The Jinx during the Savannah Stopover festival in March.There’s no one named Shaniqua Brown in the band; frontwoman Rachel Kate Gillon brings a sexy, bluesy vibe…
I’m assuming that there won’t be any bank failures on Friday, Dec. 30, which means we can look at the data for the year as a whole. The FDIC shuttered 92 banks in the U.S. in 2011; 23 of those…
If you’re interested in “slow food”, “farm to table”, “eating local”, or any of the other relatively recent efforts to bring back old ways of thinking about food production, purchase, and consumption — or if you are just interested in…
Things are looking better for Mitt Romney by the day . . . In the latest from the Republican circus primary, Texas Governor Rick Perry has filed a federal lawsuit to get onto the Virginia ballot, even though his campaign…
There are obviously lots of potential answers for the question in my title. But since posting earlier today about the extreme declines for Atlanta home prices in September and October according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Indices, I’ve been looking at a…
I follow a lot of monthly economic data that I don’t post here on the blog, but I’ve been paying regular attention to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration estimates of total traffic volume. The prolonged decline in…
The title of today’s S&P/Case-Shiller press release pretty much says it all: The Fourth Quarter Starts with Broad-based Declines in Home Prices Case-Shiller looks at repeat sales of homes. It’s one of the most widely respected home price indices, but…
In my City Talk column today, I talk about cuts to education in Georgia over the last few years. I just want to follow up here with a post about total government employment in Georgia using Georgia Department of Labor…
