Forbes publisher: Tennessee’s recovery is a V
Posted on August 25, 2009 at 2:30 pmWriting on his Digital Rules blog, Rich Karlgaard says Tennessee’s low-tax environment is helping it avoid what he expects will be a long, slow slog back to growth for much of the country.
Gross averages never tell the story in a country as large as the U.S. Beneath the expected subpar, U-shaped recovery lies the reality of the American economy: A highly uneven collection of Vs and Ws.
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Real estate expert parses local figures
Posted on August 21, 2009 at 11:33 am
Local real estate guru Grant Hammond, an assiduous blogger who keeps as close an eye on the Nashville real estate world as anyone, offers an appraisal of recent Zillow Real Estate Market Reports which said Nashville’s home values are down from last year but slight up from the first quarter.
However, home values in Nashville increased 0.7% in the second quarter of 2009, compared with the first quarter of 2009. Nationally, home values decreased 4.3% during this same period.
A good way to summarize this information is that the Nashville real estate market is 2 times better off than the rest of the country since last year and more than 5 times better off since last quarter. It is a very good sign that Nashville prices are stabilizing faster than most other major cities.
Why is Nashville doing better than others? 3 simple factors are leading to a faster recovery in Nashville: 1) Nashville has not experienced significant job loss, 2) Nashville was not as over-saturated by new real estate product as most major markets, and 3) Nashville is experiencing positive population increase.
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Tip of the hat to Waller blog
Posted on August 6, 2009 at 7:31 am
The National Law Journal shines the spotlight on Waller Lansden’s Young Lawyers blog, which regularly likes to take a light-hearted look at life in law.
Recently, GIBI posted “Don’t Stab the Messenger,” a story posted online in the Los Angeles Times in July 2009 about a Santa Ana, Calif. lawyer who was being served with civil court papers and was arrested after trying to stab the messenger with a large hunting knife. Although, the contributors state that they could not come up with a good idea in response to this post, their tongue-in-cheek post was in the lawyer’s defense: “The idiom is ‘Don’t shoot the messenger.’ No one ever told him not to try to stab the messenger.”
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HealthSpring may struggle with the rest
Posted on July 8, 2009 at 7:53 amSeekingAlpha blogger thinks shares of health insurers will likely fall today due to lingering uncertainty over President Obama’s health reform bill which yesterday bounced back and forth between requiring and not requiring a public plan.
Health insurers’ stock prices are likely to fall Wednesday. Most of them rose smartly Tuesday on news that President Obama would accept a health bill without a public option health plan.
But not only did the left get to Obama and force him to reassert his demands for a public option health plan, or Government HMO, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) that the health bill must include the Government HMO.
Both Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, look silly and weak. They’ve been rolled by their hard left base once again. And it might and should kill their health insurance reform bill, which really isn’t a reform bill but an inflationary health care spending bill that would cost trillions over the next 5, 10 and 20 years.
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Southwestern blog wins award
Posted on June 30, 2009 at 11:41 pmThe Nashville institution’s blog on ethics direct sales practices was recently recognized by the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators. Check out the blog here.
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Local blogger pimped by online magazine rack
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 2:32 pm
The Antipimp blog maintained by IT recruiter Scott Gordon at Vaco Technology has been named one of the top career-focused blogs by Alltop.com, a news aggregator founded by noted venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.
I’d heard all of the horror stories in dealing with recruiters or “pimps” and started writing TheAntiPimp.com. I researched other recruiters that blogged and found most were writing to other recruiters. No one wrote to the job seeker … the most important person to me, as a recruiter.
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Blogging as big business
Posted on April 3, 2009 at 8:33 amMatt Kinsman reports:
Blogging is becoming the dominant force for many magazine Web sites and while most sites have their magazine staff blogging on a rotating schedule, the industry is starting to see some staffers dedicated full-time to blogging.
A bunch of economists walk into a blogging convention…
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 1:43 pmThe Kauffman Foundation is bringing together economic bloggers from around the nation. Among them is Belmont professor Jeff Cornwall, author of The Entrepreneurial Mind.
On the other hand, Robert X. Cringely, a blogging pioneer, says the typical impact [of blogs on public policy] is far less dramatic. “It annoys public policymakers and, to a certain extent, makes them think,” says Cringely, “but I think the effect is still muted and the general press has the most impact — for now.”
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