It will eventually affect nearly everyone, not just the people shipping packages.

The trucking companies are going to demand higher contract prices. They had a bump in October, clearly not enough. They're coming back for more. That head of lettuce is going to be up another five cents, clothing on the clothing racks will be up another couple of dollars. And you'll just see these prices cascading.

We're going to have high energy prices, a little bit more inflation. Underlying inflation is going to be a little bit higher, but not seriously higher and I still feel good about the overall economy.

Atlanta, in the last five years, has created more jobs than any other metropolitan area in the country.

Hopefully it will be flexible enough to be viable far into the future for lots of different people doing lots of different things.

We are seeing history unfold, events that will shape the course of a country, the fate of a people and potentially the future of the region.