The Bureau of Labor Statistics not only publishes the nationwide employment data each month, but the agency also breaks the numbers down by region and by state. Click here for the current BLS release. An excerpt: Nevada continued to record…
The AJC announced today that the paper will publish a three-part series next week looking at claims regarding the long-proposed, much-studied, and much-debated Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. I have written a lot on the subject, and was one of the…
I don’t know how long it will be before the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the individual mandate and on so-called Obamacare generally, but there’s no escaping the problems posed by the high numbers of uninsured Americans. Take…
If you’re interested in the cultural and financial ramifications of the housing bust, this Q&A with Robert Shiller (of Case-Shiller) is absolutely worth a watch. He notes that we could be in a long Japan-like slump and that we could…
From Standard & Poors’ release of the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices 10- and 20-City composites: Both composites saw price declines of 0.8% in the month of January. Sixteen of 19 MSAs also saw home prices decrease over the month; only…
From the FDIC press release: Covenant Bank & Trust, Rock Spring, Georgia, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered…
The not-officially-named “grocery anchor” and new commercial development on Victory Drive at the old Backus Cadillac site moved ahead today. (As I have discussed before, all indications are that the grocery store will be a Whole Foods.) Savannah City Council…
The question of national variations in pump prices came up after a recent post in which I quoted Parker Companies CEO Greg Parker talking about the reasons for increasing gas prices. Well, check out the post Why do gasoline prices…
Job growth in Georgia is going to be a key element to watch in 2012. The state benefited in recent weeks from significant upward revisions of some of the data from late last year. I’ve been very negative about the…
More on a theme that I’ve written about before. I don’t agree with every single word in this piece, but I highly recommend The New Suburban Poverty in the NYT, written by Lisa McGirr, professor of history at Harvard and…
I posted earlier today about the suddenness with which the Georgia legislature has pushed some major changes to the tax code. The measure — HB 386 — was exempt from the ordinary rule for bills to be approved by at…
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank’s coincident index of economic activity for January provides a promising picture for virtually the entire U.S. From the press release: The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has released the coincident indexes for the 50 states…
[UPDATE: Click here for a more recent post on this subject.] The most important business conducted in this year’s Georgia legislative session might be wrapped up at almost the last minute. It looked for the last two and a half…
A couple of months ago, I actually sent an email to Calculated Risk hoping that he would break down the job growth numbers for both private and public employment. The most recent recession was one of the few times (other…
