Atlanta and the global economy.(Transcript)

Thank you, and serviceable afternoon, everyone. We're going to talk quite a bit this afternoon about global exchange and the future.
on the contrary to get the conversation going, I want to transport you back in time for a moment--to the year 1819 The place is the port of Savannah.
There, upon a balmy spring afternoon, an engineering marvel called the Steamship Savannah locate out on an historic voyage. Twenty single days later it would arrive in the port of Liverpool.
It was historic for a brace of reasons. It was the first steam powered ship to at any time cross the Atlantic. It also made the