Finance & Markets

The Architecture of Growth: How Louisiana is Building a Unified Tech and Manufacturing Economy

Louisiana's economic development strategy of the past eighteen months has often been discussed in silos. Data center announcements in Richland Parish. AI facility decisions in Rapides. Advanced manufacturing commitments in Northeast Louisiana. Each celebrated separately, each impressive on its own. But they're not really separate at all. They're pieces of something larger: a deliberate diversification away from energy-dependent extraction and toward technology-forward product

Jun 124 min read

$80 Million Shot in the Arm: Faith Technologies Brings Advanced Manufacturing to Northeast Louisiana

Faith Technologies Incorporated announced this month what may be the most significant private investment Northeast Louisiana has seen in years: an $80.5 million commitment to build a sprawling 500,000-square-foot Excellerate manufacturing facility in Ouachita Parish, creating at least 200 direct jobs and rippling across the region with over 500 indirect positions. Construction is already underway, with the facility expected to open by spring 2027. For Monroe, a city that's we

Jun 113 min read

$3.6 Billion AI Campus Coming to Rapides Parish in Cenla's Biggest Economic Win in a Generation

Governor Jeff Landry stood at England Airpark on Tuesday and made an announcement that Central Louisiana's economic development community has been waiting years to hear. Applied Digital Corporation — a Dallas-based company that designs, builds, and operates data centers for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing — will develop Delta Forge 1, a $3.6 billion AI factory campus in Rapides Parish. It is the largest economic development project in the region's moder

May 273 min read

FORBES: How Louisiana Became A Key Battleground For Anti-Energy Activism

Louisiana's significant energy potential, encompassing oil, gas, and carbon capture, is being systematically undermined by a heavily funded, out-of-state campaign. A Pelican Institute report details over $115 million flowed to local environmental groups from 2020-2025, with over 70% originating from California, D.C., and New York, backed by billionaires like Bloomberg and Bezos. This "lawfare" manifests through challenges to carbon sequestration primacy, legal assaults on LNG

Jul 155 min read

Automakers Decide Who Can Fix Your Car. Should They?

Vehicle manufacturers have built a rigged market, and Louisiana's independent repair shops are paying the price. Automakers restrict independent mechanics from accessing the same diagnostic data and software tools they freely hand to their own authorized dealerships. The result is artificial scarcity, inflated costs, and the slow strangulation of a sector that employs millions of Americans and tens of thousands of Louisianians in every parish across the state. The REPAIR Act

Jul 73 min read

$3.6 Billion AI Campus Coming to Rapides Parish in Cenla's Biggest Economic Win in a Generation

May 273 min read

Louisiana Is Winning the Investment Race. Now Comes the Hard Part.

The numbers coming out of Baton Rouge over the last two years are the kind that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. Since Governor Jeff Landry took office, Louisiana has secured more than $90 billion in capital investment and nearly 80,000 new job opportunities statewide. In 2025 alone — the largest capital investment year in state history — Louisiana announced more than $61 billion in new projects. The state has won Business Facilities' Platinum Deal of the Year awar

May 204 min read

The Drug Pricing Fight Washington Gets Wrong Has Real Consequences for Louisiana

Louisiana families know what it feels like to stretch a budget. They know what it costs to fill a prescription. And most of them have no idea that a significant reason American drug prices are so high is that wealthy foreign governments — our own allies — have spent decades rigging the system to avoid paying their fair share. That imbalance is now squarely in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, and Louisiana has every reason to pay close attention. A recent analysis f

May 154 min read

OPINION: Crypto Wants to Play by Different Rules. Retail Investors Will Pay the Price

By Sean Corkery One of the first things I did when I turned 18 was open a brokerage account and buy my first stock. The rules were clear, the broker had to be registered with FINRA, material risks had to be disclosed in the prospectus, and fraud carried real legal consequences. These aren't bureaucratic hurdles, they are the bedrock of a system that made American capital markets the deepest and most trusted in the world. Now Congress is considering legislation that would exem

May 124 min read

Inside Louisiana's Quiet Play to Land SpaceX

Something unusual is happening in the wetlands south of Pecan Island, and in the committee rooms of the Louisiana Legislature, and in the quiet corridors of the Landry administration. Hunting leases are being cancelled. ExxonMobil is shelving a major carbon capture project. A coordinated package of aerospace incentive bills materialized in the Louisiana Legislature within 48 hours of the March 31 filing deadline, carried by two of the most powerful committee chairmen in the H

May 75 min read

Sweet Returns: Domino Sugar's $785 Million Bet on Louisiana

here is a version of Louisiana's economic story that is always about what's next — the next LNG terminal, the next petrochemical plant, the next foreign manufacturer choosing a greenfield site along the Mississippi River corridor. That story is real and it matters. But this week in Arabi, St. Bernard Parish, a different kind of economic signal went into the ground: a groundbreaking that looked backward as much as it looked forward, and that may say more about Louisiana's unde

May 74 min read

Investor Protections and Confidence Are Key to Crypto Innovation

After a decade of explosive growth, digital assets are rightfully moving into the financial mainstream. Financial institutions from NYSE to Nasdaq are investing in plans to integrate digital assets and tokenized securities. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins has claimed that much of the financial system could move on-chain within " a couple of years ." In preparation for this shift, the SEC is expected to announce an innovation exemption f

Apr 213 min read

$17.5 billion LNG project anchored by $1B investment in Louisiana businesses

Thanks to the more than $300 million services contract to Green Tug Towing , a joint venture of Harbor Docking & Towing and Saltchuk Marine , for the design and construction of four new tugs to be built at C&C Marine and Repair in Belle Chase and delivered to Louisiana LNG in 2028, Woodside and its contractors have now committed more than $1 billion to Louisiana suppliers for the foundational development of this LNG project. Jeff Landry , Louisiana Governor, highlight

Apr 212 min read

Finance & Markets

The Architecture of Growth: How Louisiana is Building a Unified Tech and Manufacturing Economy

$80 Million Shot in the Arm: Faith Technologies Brings Advanced Manufacturing to Northeast Louisiana

$3.6 Billion AI Campus Coming to Rapides Parish in Cenla's Biggest Economic Win in a Generation

FORBES: How Louisiana Became A Key Battleground For Anti-Energy Activism

Automakers Decide Who Can Fix Your Car. Should They?

$3.6 Billion AI Campus Coming to Rapides Parish in Cenla's Biggest Economic Win in a Generation

Louisiana Is Winning the Investment Race. Now Comes the Hard Part.

The Drug Pricing Fight Washington Gets Wrong Has Real Consequences for Louisiana

OPINION: Crypto Wants to Play by Different Rules. Retail Investors Will Pay the Price

Inside Louisiana's Quiet Play to Land SpaceX

Sweet Returns: Domino Sugar's $785 Million Bet on Louisiana

Investor Protections and Confidence Are Key to Crypto Innovation

$17.5 billion LNG project anchored by $1B investment in Louisiana businesses

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