While efforts to retrain workforce and grow new businesses are necessary there is a huge gap in our preparation of the workforce of tomorrow. The statistics are crushing. In a time when our entire workforce needs to improve their skills to face the challenges of the new technological age, we are letting skill sets atrophy […] Read more
Personally I’m betting on the “Real Economy”… This week’s Friday Market Insight from Bob Bach at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. Day of Reckoning? The recent run-up in interest rates – the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note ended Thursday at 2.41%, its highest level since October 27, 2011 – caused a stampede of […] Read more
Energy opportunities like these were not on our radar 10 years ago. And Energy seems to drive nearly everything. Manufacturing didn’t seem to be in our future either… Comeback: Why the US Sits at the Brink of a New Boom In 2005, Charles Morris became convinced that a debt crash was inevitable. In 2006, he […] Read more
We are the West Port of Florida, maybe a bigger economic driver that we realize… Tampa port’s economic impact measured in new study The Port of Tampa generates $15.1 billion in annual economic activity, according to an economic impact study being released today. .. Read More…
Innovation – Big bills left in the shipping container I LOVE the history of the shipping container. Nothing could be more confounding to our usual ideas about innovation, stagnation, and technology. Imagine for a moment that you’re standing on the docks at a major port in the early 1950s. You see some evidence of technological […] Read more
The case for infrastructure spending, compelling and a little scary, invest our way to growth … Difference Engine: A member too few BY ALL accounts, the four-lane bridge over the River Skagit in Washington state, along Interstate 5 between Seattle and the Canadian border, was in pretty good shape for a 58-year-old structure. It had […] Read more
Local Infrastructure Cooperation, they’re talking … Tampa Bay ports and airports seek ways to cooperate Mergers of the Tampa Port Authority and Port Manatee, or Tampa International Airport and the St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport aren’t likely to happen anytime soon. Probably never. But there could be more cooperation between these Tampa Bay transportation agencies and economic development engines, […] Read more
The Tampa Bay Economy continues to recover, Local hiring up 2 percent month over month, report says A new report by Simply Hired suggests hiring ticked up slightly in May. Month over month, hiring in Tampa and St. Petersburg was up by 2 percent and year over year by 29.2 percent, according to the search […] Read more