by Gary Ivey | Aug 4, 2011 | Current Posts
Today the Dow Jones Average dropped 500 points after dropping 800 over the past 10 days. How is that possible? I thought Congress and the president had saved us by raising the debt ceiling. I thought Wall Street liked certainty and Tuesday’s deal for raising...
by Gary Ivey | Aug 3, 2011 | Current Posts
Well, the Debt Ceiling debate has ended. The deadline was August 2 and that’s when the politicians finally got around to doing something. The “whimper-instead-of-bang” conclusion to the debate had few surprises: the debt ceiling was raised (yawn),...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 25, 2011 | Current Posts
Part of my family lore is that, through my paternal grandmother, I’m descended from Davy Crockett. Maybe I am and maybe I’m not. Someday I’ll join Ancestry.Com and find out. There’s a Davy Crockett story from his time in Congress that bears...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 25, 2011 | Current Posts
I’m tired of the Debt Ceiling debate, mainly because I don’t think anything meaningful will come out of it. A recent poll showed that 69% of Americans don’t want the Debt Ceiling raised, but prefer that the Feds learn to live within their means. ...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 23, 2011 | Current Posts
Living in the Atlanta metro area as I do, I’ve watched several locally founded companies like Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Turner Broadcasting, and Home Depot. Being an entrepreneur myself, I appreciate these rags-to-riches companies’ stories. So I was...