What you see there is a big container ship headed down the Savannah River, bound for China or some such place. I didn’t have time to do a good job of framing the photo, but you get the basic idea: Charming, leafy old downtown Savannah in the foreground, modern commerce floating by in the background. [...]
The WSJ ran an opinion piece Tuesday by David Ranson, head of research at H.C. Wainwright & Co. Economics, on what he calls “Hauser’s Law”–the observation apparently made by “San Francisco investment economist Kurt Hauser” 15 years ago that: No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America tax revenues have remained at [...]
You request. I deliver. Here’s the chart that commenter Brew asked for: GRAPHIC BY FEILDING CAGE/TIME.COM There’s a bunch of caveats I feel compelled to throw out: Corporate income is taxed twice–once as corporate income and once as either capital gains or dividend income, which are both counted under personal taxes. Also, economists teach that [...]
Assuming that our nation’s excellent and reliable air transportation system cooperates, I will be spending Wednesday and Thursday in Greater Metropolitan Savannah on a reporting trip. I have a couple of roboposts lined up for today (Wednesday), and hope to share some lovely trip photos after that. But if there turn out to be any [...]
