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
This week’s Courier Herald column: Why the heck was Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in Davos Switzerland this week? Some that asked that question genuinely wanted to know the answer. To many in the populist wing of the Republican party, it was more of a statement, heavy with implied derision. In those circles, “Davos” is a
This week’s Courier Herald column: On October 27th, the European Union reached a deal to ban the sale of cars powered by gasoline and diesel fuel by 2035. Given that 2024 models will begin hitting showrooms in just a few months, that’s just 11 model years from now. In auto life cycles, that’s roughly two
This week’s Courier Herald column. I was in one of my favorite local restaurants in Brunswick Georgia last week, an area I’ve been more than not for the past year and a half. Enough time that on some documents I’ve now started to call Glynn County “home”. The place is a favorite of mine for
This week’s Courier Herald column: You’ve likely seen the meme shared on Facebook. It purports to be an electric car graveyard in France. There are variations on the text surrounding the photo, but the conclusion suggested is generally the same: EV’s are bad because the expensive batteries soon go bad and the cars are junked,
This week’s Courier Herald column: This should come as no surprise, but I didn’t win the recent $1.3 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Neither did you unless you’re holding a ticket bought in Des Plains, Illinois at the end of July. That’s Ok. While it’s fun to dream, it’s better to plan. Most of our
