Latest Strome Podcast Episodes
Florence + The Machine
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - May 16, 2022 22:20 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe title of the band's fifth album, “Dance Fever,” refers to a 14th century ritual where groups of people burst into dance frenzies to the point of exhaustion or even death.
Port Update
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 31, 2020 04:42 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. The COVID caused recession has affected the Port of Virginia but really only in a mild way. While the number of ships calling on the Port has declined every year for the last 4 years. That’s really beca...
DLima Study Shows RE Prices vary
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 28, 2020 04:06 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. We already discussed here the shrunken inventory of homes for sale in the 757, down to its lowest level in 15 years. New home construction can’t keep up with the demand due to labor shortages so the med...
Refinance
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 27, 2020 04:09 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. With interest rates so low, the mortgage refinance business has been going strong, up some eighty four percent. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest purchasers of mortgages, though, just slapped ...
Facebook grants for Black-owned businesses
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 26, 2020 04:06 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. In June, Facebook committed one hundred million dollars to advance US-based Black businesses, artists, and nonprofits. Last week, they unveiled their plan to offer Black businesses up to forty million d...
Brookings
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 25, 2020 04:08 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. The Brookings Institute is publishing a weekly economic recovery matrix that reports a metro area’s performance across a dozen measures. For each measure, Brookings reports the actual value for that met...
Construction affected by COVID economy
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 24, 2020 04:01 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. When the COVID caused recession began, one segment that seemed unaffected was construction. Of course, commercial construction projects can take years and typically, though not always, continue on in sp...
Stock Market
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 21, 2020 04:03 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner and this is a Strome Business Minute. I’m often asked how the stock market remains at record highs while the economy struggles. As we’ve discussed here, the stock market and economy are not the same thing – for one, when you buy stocks, you’re buying future earnings one to two yea...
Inc5000
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 20, 2020 04:10 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. According to Virginia Business Magazine, Virginia is home to 281 companies listed in the Inc 5000, comprised of the fastest growing companies in America. Other than growth, criteria for the list include...
Football
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 19, 2020 04:08 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. ODU cancelled its football season last week, hoping to play a shortened spring season. The financial impact on the school will be tough but imagine the financial impact of the Pac 12 and the Big 10 drop...
Student Debt
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 18, 2020 04:05 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Student loans have been put on hold for another 90 days by executive order. The CARES Act had originally included a provision suspending payments for 6 months, or through the end of September. Trump’s order suspends payments until the beginni...
Dunkin Pumpkin
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 17, 2020 04:05 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. This fall will be strange without high school football and baseball’s empty stands at the World Series. But at least we’ll have Pumpkin Spice. In fact, Dunkin is bringing it back one week early, today, ...
Sentara
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 14, 2020 04:01 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Sentara’s blockbuster merger with Cone Health in North Carolina will result in a healthcare system with eleven billion in assets. While Cone brings five hospitals compared to Sentara’s twelve, Cone offi...
FAAN earnings
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 10, 2020 04:15 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Last week, we discussed the Justice Department’s probe into Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google. The companies also just posted earnings for the last quarter, adding more fuel to the fire because most of...
FAANG Antitrust Suit
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 07, 2020 04:05 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. The internet giants Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google are being investigated by the Justice Department for violation of antitrust laws. The company facing the strongest pressure is Google, and expecta...
ADP Jobs data released
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 06, 2020 04:09 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. ADP recently released payroll numbers, stating that 167,000 jobs were added to the private sector payrolls this past month, well below the 1.9 million that were expected based on a survey of economists ...
Presidential Cycles
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - August 03, 2020 04:25 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Tax policies of the political parties are fairly stable over time, with the Republicans favoring wealth creation over wages and the Democrats favoring wages over wealth. You see this in changes to capit...
Mask-Friendly Places
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 31, 2020 04:10 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Last Sunday at Fresh Market I noticed these signs all over touting their rating as one of the cleanest stores in America. Today, I got an email from American Airlines outlining their policies for safer ...
Realta gets FDA approval
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 30, 2020 04:05 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. A lot of focus has been on the potential for a COVID vaccine. In fact, one economist likened the rush for a vaccine to the development of the atomic bomb, a race run by countries who want to be first. B...
Costs of groceries on the rise
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 29, 2020 04:01 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. If it feels like you’re spending more on groceries during COVID, it’s because you are. I compared grocery costs December to May using government monthly reports of prices for the same items. My analysis...
VEDP Talent Accelerator Program
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 28, 2020 04:07 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. I was on a call with several local business owners talking about the challenges facing our region’s ability to grow. While the world may have seemed pretty good pre-COVID, Hampton Roads was actually las...
Bank On provides financial literacy programming
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 27, 2020 04:04 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. COVID has hit people of color and their businesses disproportionately. One reason is personal finances. African-Americans are twice as likely to live in poverty, while Hispanic poverty is seventy percen...
Economic recovery plateaues
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 24, 2020 04:00 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. The economic recovery appears stalled out as many indicators of economic health flattened over the past month or so. For example, weekly reports of new unemployment claims show no improvement, whether y...
CEO Pay
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 23, 2020 04:10 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner and this is a Strome Business Minute. One University of Georgia and two Notre Dame professors recently found that CEOs who were hired and paid at an above market rate outperformed those paid at or below market rates, with market rates weighted by company size and industry. Control...
Primary Healthcare
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 22, 2020 04:16 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner and this is a Strome Business Minute. With COVID, we’ve seen the acceptance of tele-medicine grow rapidly. At the same time, however, the country’s three largest pharmacy retailers, Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart, have either just inked deals to build primary care centers at their st...
Sports takes a hit
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 21, 2020 04:05 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Baseball is trying to hold a sixty game season, much shorter than normal, while hockey is moving to Canada for its remaining playoffs. What has the fallout been for sponsors? While many sponsors are try...
Moderna has early stage COVID vaccine success
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 20, 2020 04:01 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Massachusetts-based Moderna announced a successful early stage trial for its COVID vaccine, causing stock prices in the NASDAQ-traded pharma to jump more than sixteen percent on the news overnight. The ...
ICE ices foreign student economic impact
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 17, 2020 04:10 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. The federal government rescinded regulations that prohibit international students from taking a fully online schedule. The regulations meant that if a University pivoted mid-term to online only, those s...
Hotels doing better but not good
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 16, 2020 04:01 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Hotels and related tourism businesses make up a large part of our local economy. The good news is that we’re doing better than pretty much everyone else in the country. In fact, our hotels were the only properties in the country averaging ove...
Time for Outdoor Movies
Strome Business Minute with Dr. Jeff Tanner - July 14, 2020 04:02 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m Jeff Tanner, dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. While driving up the Eastern Shore, I thought that with the COVID virus and the quality of car sound systems, it was time for drive-in movie theaters to make a comeback. Walmart and the Tribeca film fes...
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