This week’s Courier Herald column: When someone tries to use economics to justify what they’re proposing, they’ll often explain it as if basic economic principles demand it. “This is just Econ 101.” The problem with using entry level economics courses to try to explain real word reactions relies on some of the non-real world assumptions
The following is a guest Op-Ed from Senator Ed Harbison: As the Senator from the 15th District of the Georgia General Assembly for almost 20 years, Chairman of the Senate Committee on State Institutions and Property, and a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions, I have made it my priority
This week’s Courier Herald column: As is no longer new news, Hyundai has decided to expand its presence in Georgia in a big way. Already a major employer in West Georgia with its subsidiary Kia, Hyundai will be constructing its first dedicated electric automobile and battery manufacturing facility on about 3,000 acres off Interstate 16
This week’s Courier Herald column: If you’ve been watching the stock market lately, you probably are getting frustrated with the pattern. What became a game for many during the pandemic – with phrases such as “stocks only go up” and “buy the dip” heard as rallying cries – has transitioned back to some cruel realities.
This week’s Courier Herald column: Like many components of household budgets, rents have been increasing. They’re now increasing at increasing rates. Data provided by real estate consulting firm CoreLogic this week revealed that year over year rents for single family homes are showing double digit increases, with demand especially strong across the sun belt. Nationally,
This week’s Courier Herald column: A few months ago I wrote a column suggesting that it was time to accept electric vehicles as mainstream. Too many, mostly from conservative political circles, associate the advancement in technology with overreaching political agendas. The two concepts can and should be treated separately. Adapting to new technologies and incorporating
This week’s Courier Herald column: President Biden announced this week that California’s clogged ports will be operating on a 24/7 basis to reduce the backlog of ships and cargo that has become the focal point of our nation’s broken supply chains. While often left out of the discussion, Savannah’s container port was the subject of
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I’ll add a TL;DR up front, and a note that I’ve been skipping a few columns here that aren’t #gapol focused – like this one. But I feel this needs to be said more plainly: We still have policymakers in Washington stuck on solving the last problem – that of
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I had a long drive Tuesday, and much of it was punctuated by recurring news updates regarding President Biden’s summit of leaders from the tech and financial industries on Cybersecurity. While the meeting had been highly choreographed to emphasize what private industry is already doing to combat the ever present
This week’s Courier Herald column: In the 1985 movie Brewster’s Millions, Richard Pryor’s character had to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. There were a few catches. He couldn’t own anything of value at the end, he couldn’t gift the money to anyone or charity, and
