(Chicago Defender) — Now that the mid-term elections are over and the politics of exaggeration appear to be catching less national attention, it is past time to focus on the economic condition and plight of 50 million African Americans. The devastating economic disaster of the Bush years has a lingering negative economic effect on everyone in […]
(Atlanta Business Chronicle) — More than $8 billion in cargo bound for metro Atlanta during the last fiscal year was shipped through the Port of Savannah, according to a report released Friday by the Georgia Ports Authority. Those numbers demonstrate the importance of Georgia’s ports throughout the state, not just in the coastal region, authority […]
(NYT) — From a 542-square-foot office above a bustling intersection in Harlem, the Rev. Nicholas S. Richards is building what he hopes will be a 7,000-mile bridge to the eastern highlands of Ethiopia. It is a bridge more than 200 years in the making. In that modest two-room office off East 125th Street, the Abyssinian […]
(Atlanta Business Journal) — The Peach State’s ports posted 25.3 percent growth in May, according to the Georgia Ports Authority. That marked the sixth month in a row of double-digit growth for GPA. Overall tonnage grew 12.4 percent, which brings the GPA’s fiscal year-to-date (July 2009 through May 2010) volume to a 6.5 percent increase. Read More…
(BusinessWeek.com) — The U.S. trade deficit shrank like a puddle in the hot sun in 2008 and 2009 as appetite for imports melted in the recession and Asian export markets grew. With the U.S. economy now improving, the gap is widening again, dashing hopes that the U.S. is anywhere close to rebalancing trade with the […]
The big question has been which nation needs the other most.