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Dallas is Adding More Good Jobs than Anywhere Else

Five months ago, Dallas didn't even register on Forbes rundown of U.S. metro areas with the rosiest employment prospects, losing out to San Jose and Austin but also to Birmingham, Charleston, and Lakeland, Florida. That was a prediction based on a survey of employers' hiring predictions. Now that t ... More >>

Dallas Fed Looks Back on the Year in Drought, Beef and Black Gold

In '12, a parched Texas saw drought ease, but the cattle industry continues to reel from the hangover brought on by 2011, the driest year in its history. Meanwhile, oil! Dear Lord, he sent us another boom. The Dallas Fed describes what 2012 held for these iconic Lone Star pursuits. We're a farming ... More >>

Texas Economy Would Be Booming If It Weren't For the Damn Journalists

First, the good news. The Dallas Fed's most recent economic numbers show that Texas' economy is growing. That growth is moderate, 2.4 percent for the year, but it's better than in the country as a whole. Energy is booming; so is construction. Even the government sector is expanding slightly, in a st ... More >>

Texas' Biggest Power Supplier Wants to Blame the EPA for Future Blackouts

Rawlings: We Must "Take Notice" of High Number of Dallasites So Close to Asset Poverty

If you need a new benchmark to measure just how broke you are, try "asset poverty." Asset-poor households would be unable to survive for three months at the federal poverty level if some crisis caused them to lose their source of income. As Robert mentioned earlier, asset poverty is the subject of ... More >>

City Looking to Kick In $2 Million Toward Development Around Walmart on Ledbetter

​Word of warning: This won't be the sole Unfair Park item of the day to feature the word "Walmart." Patience, patience. But, to begin: Remember that Walmart going in at Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton? Right, that one. Gave us the phrase "Trees do not vote" during the contentious discussion about how ... More >>

Yesterday, Caraway Visited Pioneer Park. But Tomorrow, They Occupy a Federal Courtroom.

Photos by Chris Howell​One week ago today we walked alongside the Occupy Dallas-ites as they marched from Pike Park to the Dallas Federal Reserve airing their laundry list of grievances, echoing those who stormed Wall Street almost a month ago and never left as their ranks swelled. But in the week ... More >>

Infowars Host Alex Jones and His Followers Occupy the Dallas Fed Friday

Friday evening, two groups of protesters, Occupy Dallas and Occupy the Federal Reserve, lined opposite side of N. Pearl Street at Woodall Rodgers in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. "We got sold out, Feds got bailed out!" Occupy Dallas protesters shouted in unison on the west side of Pea ... More >>

Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-making, low-taxing oasis of prosperity. It's also pure fantasy.

At Last, The Adopted Redistricting Map

​I swear: Every other item today won't be a redistricting item. Even Anna's moved on for now: She was out with the Occupy Dallas folks, and her recap of the march to the Dallas Fed is forthcoming. But the Redistricting Commission just made available the map and data packet accompanying the version ... More >>

Dallas Gets Occupied

​Doubtless you've heard about Occupy Wall Street, the protests against corporate greed and Wall Street bailouts (among other things) that have been going on for the last three weeks in New York. The protesters call themselves "the other 99 percent" or just "The 99," and this morning in Pike Park o ... More >>

On Thursday, "Occupy Dallas"

​There's a HuffPo piece this morning about how the pepper-spray-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests moved to the West Coast yesterday -- San Francisco, specifically, and the Bank of America building in the Financial District. Next Thursday, though, they hit a little closer to home. Without Radioh ... More >>

Dallas Fed Head Attempts to "Separate Fact from Fiction" When It Comes to Texas Jobs

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas​Several Friends of Unfair Park, including a grumpy one below, have asked if we'll make mention of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fisher's speech given in Midland yesterday. Sure, absolutely, happy to. Because, first, I'm ... More >>

Dallas-Born Final Destination Star Miles Fisher Spoofs Saved By The Bell For New Music Video

Miles Fisher​Miles Fisher is becoming something of a renaissance man. The actor and musician, born and raised in Dallas, and the son of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president Richard Fisher, stars in Final Destination 5, the latest in the long-lasting film series, which will be released in theat ... More >>

USA Today: "Move to Texas." Ish.

​In hotels all across the country this morning, folks are rising and shining to that bit of advice courtesy this state of the state, which, like everyone else, is just waiting for Rick Perry to jump into the pool of GOP candidates and begin talking about how The Great State of Texas is a jobs-maki ... More >>

Dallas Fed: "Expectations Regarding Future Business Conditions ... More Optimistic in July"

​This morning, stock talk revolved not only 'round the stalled-out D.C. debt-ceiling discussions, but what might the Dallas Fed say when it released its Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey, especially following last month's not-such-good-news accounting. What analysts were particularly concerned ab ... More >>

Not Business As Usual at SMU Today As Obama Officials and Dallas Fed Head Chat Up Journos

At this very moment, more than 350 biz journalists, members all of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, are on the Hilltop for a star-studded afternoon of speeches and panels set to feature the likes of Elizabeth Warren, tasked by President Obama with creating the Consumer Financial ... More >>

Get Moving! High Oil Prices Good (For Texas), More Rush-Hour Red Line ... and Streetcars

Dallas Area Rapid TransitThe Mockingbird Station along DART's Red Line, which will see expanded rush-hour service beginning April 11​Bloomberg News says this morning that higher oil prices may be bad for Texans, but are good for Texas -- especially the so-called Rainy Day Fund Gov. Rick Perry does ... More >>

From High Atop Hunt Oil, A Look at The Park Over Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Which Is Now $9 Million Closer to Being Paid Off

Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert looks out at construction of The Park moments before stepping in for what may be his last big photo op as mayor.​The Woodall Rogers Deck Park Foundation's still $17 million shy of its fund-raising target, but with construction well under way, the series o ... More >>

Before Mayoral Candidates Make Issue Out of Political Affiliations, a Look at Who's What

During the 2007 mayoral campaign, former city council member Ed Oakley sent out mailers depicting himself and convicted felon Don Hill as Democrats and Tom Leppert and former Mayor Pro Tem Max Wells as Republicans. Oakley also accepted the endorsement of the Dallas County Democratic Party and printe ... More >>

Let's Be Business Brief

Don't mince words, Richard Fisher, what do you really think?​Some Tuesday morning odds and sods:First, from The Wall Street Journal, this op-ed from Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who tells the Senate to lay off his boy Ben Bernanke as he tries to re-up his positi ... More >>

Once Again, Richard Fisher Gives Good Speech

Johnny Mercer​The Dallas Fed head spoke to the Austin Headliners Club yesterday where, yet again, he boiled down "The Current State of the Economy and a Look to the Future" into language easily understood by those of us who were told there would be no math. The man also manages to work in referenc ... More >>

Steer Clear of the Crescent on Monday

Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in D.C. earlier this month​That is, unless you have business with former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who, in his position as U.S. Trade Representative, will be holed up at the hotel Monday talking North American Free Trade Agreement. But, ... More >>

When an Art Project Turns Into a Political Statement Turns Into a Web Site Ad

Patrick MichelsWe did catch a glimpse of the posters outside Pete Sessions and Eddie Bernice Johnson's Monday health care jam.Haven't yet seen those Obama-Joker posters -- then again, I clearly haven't been downtown in a few days. At least some members of the Alex Jones street team have been posting ... More >>

Dallas Fed Has OK News About Texas Economy. Son of Dallas Fed Head Has OK American Psycho Homage.

Guess this could go under the "From the RTF Department" category, since Miles Fisher has quite the estimable demo reel -- which includes a snippet from the video in which he parodies Tom Cruise's infamous Scientology promo. Or maybe "Business News for People Who Don't Read Business News," since Mile ... More >>

Yo, Bernanke, I Thought I Told You Not to Come 'Round Here No More

Patrick MichelsJarrod Atkinson, trying not to shout. If you're meeting up with friends later today, Jarrod Atkinson has a joke for you to try. He told his rendition through a megaphone Saturday afternoon, before a crowd outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and it went a little like this:"Knoc ... More >>

Dallas Fed Head Richard Fisher Tells Japan: "The Data from the United States are Grim."

Dallas Fed president Richard FisherRichard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, just delivered a speech to the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo, where he didn't quote Bob Dylan or compare the economy to the contraptions of Rube Goldberg -- t ... More >>

The Deep End: Dallas Fed's Bleak Texas Manufacturing Survey

Moments ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey -- a snapshot look at what folks are making, ordering and selling -- and it's not looking good, not surprisingly. As in:Texas factory activity deteriorated further in December, according to busine ... More >>

Dallas Fed Head: "It Does the Economy No Good When Creditors Curl Up in a Ball and Clutch Their Money."

Dallas Federal Reserve president and chief executive officer Richard Fisher, pictured at right, spoke today in front of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations. As always, the text of his speech -- titled, hysterically, "Historical Perspectives on ... More >>

Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down, Even if Dallas Fed Survey Does

Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher This morning, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas -- those bloodsuckers! -- released the latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. In a word: Oy. In two: "Plunged sharply." Or, as the Associated Press puts it: "Texas manufacturers are painti ... More >>

Dallas Fed's Richard Fisher Hails From "The Strongest Economic Region Within the United States"

Bob Dylan Is My Banker

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher Is, Seriously, a Shanghai Surprise

When Money Meant for Mexico Stays in U.S., Well, That's a Bad Sign

Dallas Fed's Richard Fisher Predicts a "Frightful Storm" Is A-Brewin'

Why the Dallas Fed Prez Voted Against the Interest Rate Cut. Something About Tequila, Punch and Whisky.

The Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs of Dallas Fed Head Richard Fisher

Uncle Milty Gets Down with Dallas Fed

The Real Estate: Downtown

No Knock on the Maquiladora

Katrina: Bad for People, Good for Business

Public Disinterest

So is media consolidation a bad thing?

Waging Battle

Proponents of a living-wage ordinance snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

Paper chase

William Morgan says he's just an innocent document dealer snared in a campaign finance scandal. And if you believe that, he has some old railroad bonds he wants to sell you.