Last week’s Courier Herald Column: We got some good news last week. Or, at least, the news on inflation was less bad. When dealing with the dismal science of economics, “less bad” is good. The annualized inflation rate for the month of April dropped below 5% for the first time in two years. The accelerating
This week’s Courier Herald column: My last column was about a renewed dedication to diet and fitness as part of an overall long term approach to personal health. Naturally, this week I found myself traveling for leisure, and an odd craving came about that I decided was ok to indulge. Vacation is vacation, after all
This week’s Courier Herald column: If you follow business news, or even political news where the debate weapon is the trajectory of the economy, you’ve likely picked up on the opinion that the U.S. is headed into a recession. This, after all, has been the consensus projection for over a year. These predictions are a
This week’s Courier Herald column: On April 10th, 2023, President Joe Biden signed a bill officially ending the three-year national emergency for Covid-19. The White House intends to continue the “public health emergency” until May 11th. Perhaps then, we can consider the pandemic officially over. For too many in Washington, the perpetuation of this once
Last week’s Courier Herald column: This week at the New York Auto Show, Kia officially announced that their newest EV, the Telluride sized EV9, will be built at the company’s plant in West Point Georgia. This is in addition to the 300,000 electric vehicles Kia’s corporate partner Hyundai plans to build at their Bryan County
This week’s Courier Herald column: Bank failures were big recurring news stories just over a decade ago. The 2008 failure of Bear Stearns, then Lehman Brothers, signaled that the bubble in real estate had burst. The effects began a long cascade of regulators closing banks, peaking with 157 financial institutions closed nationally in 2010, with
This week’s Courier Herald column: In recent weeks I’ve been taking a look at Georgia’s lack of affordable housing. The problem, articulated by Governor Kemp and the state’s Economist Dr. Jeffrey Dorfman, is that Georgia does not have enough housing units for the workforce we currently have, much less for the employees we expect to
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I grew up in rural Fayette County Georgia. Or, perhaps I should say I grew up with rural Fayette County. When the 1970 census was taken shortly after I was born, the county due south of Atlanta’s airport, nestled between interstates 75 and 85, had under 12,000 residents – and
This week’s Courier Herald column: This week we’re going to dive deeper into Georgia’s challenge of providing workforce housing. While it’s not a new problem, the recent public remarks by Governor Brian Kemp and the state’s economist Dr. Jeffrey Dorfman have directly tied the lack of available and affordable housing as a hindrance not only
This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgia has been building a fortress economy since coming out of the great recession. “The number one state to do business” is as much of a mission statement as it is a ranking. The formula is quite public and relatively simple on the surface. The state begins by ensuring a
