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Oil Spill Seeps Into Many Coastal Concerns
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico dealt the tourism industry on the Gulf a severe blow during the summer. Still assessing the spill's economic and psychological impact, local residents, businesses, and governments are sifting through the wreckage of a lost summer vacation season and looking for better days ahead.
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Alabama's Gulf Coast Cleans Up
The Alabama communities along the Gulf Coast have developed numerous thriving industries: energy production, tourism, seafood harvesting, and sport fishing, to name a few. How these industries and the people employed in them rebound from the oil spill is now a regional challenge.
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King Cotton Still Part of Southeast's Fabric
For hundreds of years, cotton has been a mainstay of the southeastern economy. Increasing worldwide demand and technological advances have combined to weave a global tapestry of continuing profits for regional producers.
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Full Steam Ahead: Southeast Ports Prepare for Panama Canal Expansion
Ports have helped power the southeastern economy and thrust the region into a prominent role in world trade. But the imminent expansion of the Panama Canal has the region's ports poised to capture an even larger piece of the global pie.
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Fed @ Issue
In EconSouth Now, Kris Gerardi, an economist in the Atlanta Fed's research department and Fed@Issue contributor for the third quarter issue of EconSouth, discusses the connection between financial literacy and the likelihood of buying a house using a subprime mortgage.
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