Wall Street Journal

While Bank OZK is one of the many great banking success stories in Arkansas, its prominence on the national commercial real estate scene continues to amaze its cosmopolitan peers. read more >

Journalist Roger Parloff is paying penance for the cover story he wrote for Fortune magazine, praising Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes. read more >

With so many companies hiring at the same time, the best workers have options. read more >

Regulations are a way that our society, through our elected government, levels out playing fields, creates transparency and protects the weak from abuse by the strong. And every regulation is a response to an identified problem. read more >

The number of COVID deaths in our country has already topped 200,000 (roughly the population of Little Rock). But there are millions upon millions of other casualties: More than 61 million unemployment claims had been filed between March and mid-September. read more >

Folks, we have a lot of overwhelmed consumers. It should not be this hard or frustrating to spend money. read more >

A $320 million ad push by Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg is driving up prices in Arkansas and elsewhere before Super Tuesday, March 3. read more >

CEO optimism is not a new metric. It is tracked by businesses, economists and pundits as a barometer for decisions on investments in capital expenditures, employment and other expansion-related issues. read more >

North Little Rock businesswoman Gina Radke was featured last week in a Wall Street Journal story about the conflict young women feel about the fur coats that were a coveted status symbol for their grandmothers’ generation. read more >

A new book by Russell Gold, “Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy," casts Clean Line Partners' bid to build a huge transmission line for solar and wind power across mid-America as visionary and environmentally heroic. read more >

Terry Teachout, drama critic for the Wall Street Journal, had kind words last week for Art Bridges, an organization founded by Alice Walton, and for the Terra Foundation for American Art. read more >

Little Rock’s Rock Town Distillery received a favorable mention recently in the Wall Street Journal. read more >

In their second debate last fall, Mark Pryor fumbled the question of how to define the middle class, saying that it would include income up to $200,000 a year. Tom Cotton picked it up and scored, accusing Pryor of “hanging out with out-of-state billionaires if he thinks $200,000 in Arkansas is the middle class.” read more >

The Wall Street Journal on Sunday took a look at efforts to restore Johnny Cash's boyhood home in Dyess in northeast Arkansas. read more >

The Wall Street Journal reports how Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is rethinking its supply and distribution chain to better compete in e-commerce. read more >

Time may appear to move faster as you add on years, but a 97-month car loan won't slow it down any. read more >

What sort of value would Razorback football have if the program could be bought and sold like a pro franchise? We now have an idea thanks to a study conducted by Ryan Brewer, an assistant professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. read more >

Incoming U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., an Iraq war veteran, outlines his opposition to Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. read more >