The FED Said The latest U.S. jobs reports shows that employment growth remains strong in the United States, helping push the unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly 50 years. Although employment growth in the Southeast generally mirrors national trends, a look below the hood shows that the jobs recovery from the Great Recession has been […] Read more
The FED Said As businesses in the Southeast struggle to fill low-skill jobs, some firms say they plan to move to places with larger pools of available workers, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s new Beige Book report on regional economic conditions. Atlanta Fed business contacts report that overall economic activity continued to expand moderately […] Read more
Which is more damaging, a hurricane or a fire. In either case your building, systems, records, power and telecom can be down or lost. Contingency plans are needed to survive for any disaster. The only real difference is how far away your alternate operations site will be. With the Cloud and cyber operations we are “virtually” better off […] Read more
It’s hard to imagine a broader impact scenario for Florida, all those people leaving and then trying to return. Power and support resourced having to be spread throughout the state … yet we were lucky. But here the degree of mitigation we’ve already implemented is telling. The article below on 9/14 put the damage at $180 Billion. […] 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