Mary Fallin made a campaign stop in the bustling metropolis of Hugo, Oklahoma.
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BLOG: OKC ranks fifth for economic output
Oklahoma City had the fifth highest economic output since 2012 of American cities.
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OKC Council to discuss economy Tuesday
Oklahoma City University economist Russell Evans will discuss the economic outlook for Oklahoma City. Other agenda items include financial trends, the city’s revenue and expense forecast, departmental issues and the fiscal year 2015 budget outlook. The meeting will take place in rooms 14 and 15.
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Mucking up marketplace fairness
The MFA would make Internet retailers unpaid tax collectors for almost 10,000 governmental entities. It sets an arbitrary threshold for small sellers doing $1 million or less in sales — not profits. Think about all of the mom-and-pop shops who sell online. These are the Internet entrepreneurs who have worked hard to provide a fair […]
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Nip and tuck
Cathy O’Connor Credit: Mark Hancock While few of the changes are major, they will update and better spell out what the city can do as part of its incentive program, said Cathy O’Connor, president of the nonprofit organization Alliance for Economic Development. The program funds come from the 2007 general obligation limited tax (GOLT) bond. […]
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Too Big to Fail
For this streamlined adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s nonfiction best-seller of the same name, director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) centers the story around the one man who had possibly the worst great job at the time: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson (a very good William Hurt, The Incredible Hulk). In trying to prevent […]
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Bank shot
But those in banking before the advent of the Internet tell a far more emotional story of high-flying finance that ended in a spectacular supernova, changing the banking industry forever. Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of Penn Square’s failure. Those in the industry still remember it like it was yesterday. In 1982, James Finch was […]
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Counterpoint: Scrapping tax won’t help economy
In the last few months several legislators joined with the Governor’s Task Force on Economic Development to urge Oklahoma to gradually eliminate the state’s personal income tax over the next 10 years. Consequently, it would not be a surprise if legislators will be asked to vote on the idea. Unfortunately, the evidence indicates that eliminating […]
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‘Let them eat cake’
How amusing it must be for a corporate lackey to sneer down on the little people below, demanding they get a job in an economy where 14 million Americans are unemployed. So what if Wall Street’s criminal schemes caused this nation to lose 30 percent of its wealth, resulting in countless cases of divorce, suicide […]
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‘Let them eat cake’
How amusing it must be for a corporate lackey to sneer down on the little people below, demanding they get a job in an economy where 14 million Americans are unemployed. So what if Wall Street’s criminal schemes caused this nation to lose 30 percent of its wealth, resulting in countless cases of divorce, suicide […]