by Ted Carter Published: March 20,2011
Tags: MBJ Columns, Ted Carter
As the president-designate of Enterprise Florida, Gray Swoope is venturing into a two-decade-old experiment that is facing its biggest challenge yet in surviving as a public-private endeavor. A new governor wants to resurrect the agency Enterprise Florida replaced — the Department of Commerce, though Swoope is designated to run that, as well. The department, of [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: March 6,2011
Tags: MBJ Columns, NASA, Ted Carter
The highlights of a new NASA internal safety study are sobering, but hardly breaking news to the Cape workers who begin occupying the bar stools at Neeka’s in Titusville by six every morning. They go there for a beer and a shot as they come off the midnight shift at Kennedy Space Center 15 miles [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: October 3,2010
Veteran journalist to cover banking, finance and real estate The Mississippi Business Journal has expanded its newsroom, adding veteran journalist Ted Carter as staff writer. Carter begins this week, and will cover banking and finance, real estate (commercial and residential), accounting and Main Street/economic development. “Over the past couple of months, Ted has served as [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: August 15,2010
Tags: federal banking reform, Ted Carter
Recently passed federal banking reform has the potential to lock low- and moderate-income Mississippians out of credit opportunities and other financial services. Or maybe not. Mississippi’s banking commissioner, bankers and banking analysts see a curtailing of credit and other banking opportunities as an unintended consequence of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: August 15,2010
Tags: banking and finance, Ted Carter
Regulatory concerns replacing instincts a real worry Oceanside hotel rooms are not the only empty spaces on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. The offices in which Chevis Swetman’s loan officers do their business are not anywhere as filled as the long time head of People’s Bank would like to see them. He’s got money to lend to [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: August 8,2010
Tags: analysis, banking, Ted Carter
Remember when your big brothers acted up in the backseat on a long car trip and your aggravated dad reached back and gave innocent you the back of his hand? That’s the kind of pointless persecution a lot of U.S. bankers are feeling at the moment, says Peter E. Garuccio, a lawyer and vice president [...] [...]
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