by May 8, 2022 10:26 am
-U.S. economic expansion, year three
The U.S. economy is about to enter the third year of an economic expansion that began in May 2020, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research’s business cycle dating…
by May 8, 2022 10:26 am
-The U.S. economy is about to enter the third year of an economic expansion that began in May 2020, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research’s business cycle dating…
by May 5, 2022 9:03 am
-As the debate swirls around the potential for student loan debt forgiveness, a lesser-recognized but nonetheless persistent form of debt — medical debt — is getting a lot of attention…
by May 1, 2022 10:04 am
-Megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes … yottabytes. New COVID-19 subvariants? Not at all. These are the measuring sticks of our digital lives. Humans are creating data at an exponential…
by April 24, 2022 10:22 am
-Buying a home with less than 20% down puts many people, who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford it, into a house. But there is an often forgotten aspect of…
by April 23, 2022 9:57 am
-Statewide, the consensus is that broadband is the tool to transform the economies of rural Arkansas, but the issue has been how to cost-effectively deploy it. A perception exists that…
by April 20, 2022 10:37 am
-I have had several businesses and worked with many banks over the years. I always tried to see my banker as a business partner. We had the same interests. The…
by April 17, 2022 10:19 am
-On March 8, President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to coordinate their efforts at drafting cryptocurrency regulations in a first-of-its-kind executive order. According to a fact sheet accompanying the order,…
by April 12, 2022 7:16 pm
-As entrepreneurs and advocates for small business growth in Northwest Arkansas, we talk daily with other entrepreneurs and aspiring ones, especially in historically underserved communities. One comment that we hear…
by April 10, 2022 10:17 am
-The adage “It’s lonely at the top” often popped into my mind when I ran my larger company. In times of uncertainty, it can be hard not to feel the…
by April 5, 2022 4:24 pm
-I’ve read a lot of columns recently that begin with the phrase, “If there’s one hard lesson we’ve learned from the pandemic ….” Well, this is not one of those…
by April 4, 2022 4:26 pm
-Nearly three decades ago, my life began at St. Bernard’s Medical Center, and I have been living in Jonesboro ever since. I have been blessed with two children, also born…
by April 3, 2022 9:15 am
-This time, says Jerry Morgan of the Jonesboro Advertising and Promotion Commission, it is going to happen. It is the construction of a multi-sports complex in Jonesboro, the largest city…
by March 30, 2022 4:05 pm
-Notorious conman Victor Lustig was inspired for his next great con while passing through France in 1925. Lustig read a local Parisian newspaper article that noted the ever-increasing cost burden…
by March 20, 2022 9:11 am
-Most everyone understands homebuying and building got more complicated than usual over the past couple of years as labor, supply and inventory shortages became commonplace. In many ways, those shortages…
by March 16, 2022 9:59 am
-The television ad for an Arkansas GOP candidate for a federal office blasts, “Babies, Borders, Bullets.” The complex is oversimplified because, you know, don’t think; be enraged. Be alarmed. And…
by March 13, 2022 10:02 am
-Over $8 million is headed to Arkansas in 2022 under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program to build a national electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Now the scramble…
by March 9, 2022 5:55 pm
-In the days when the Arkansas General Assembly met in regular sessions only every other year, I was obligated by the news outlets that employed me to ask local legislators…
by March 8, 2022 6:30 pm
-I’ve got a date this summer. It’s not a date about which I’m terribly excited. In fact, I’m not looking forward to it at all, but I know it’s my…
by March 6, 2022 8:56 am
-Electric vehicle adoption is not a question of “If it will occur”, but “How fast it will occur?”, which is becoming blatantly apparent from product buzz on both the public…
by March 2, 2022 9:01 am
-Across America, but particularly in Northwest Arkansas, we are in an unprecedented boom period of growth and expansion. Everything looks good. The Northwest Arkansas metro unemployment rate is only 1.5%….