Finance & Markets

$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

Louisiana Made Real Progress on Taxes. Then There's the Sales Tax.

Louisiana's tax reform story over the last two years is one worth telling. The 2024 special session produced genuine, structural change: a flat 3% individual income tax, a reduced corporate rate of 5.5%, the elimination of the corporate franchise tax, and permanent full expensing — making Louisiana one of only three states in the country to fully decouple from federal phasedown rules on business investment. The Tax Foundation took notice. Louisiana jumped six spots in its Sta

May 194 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

$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

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

Washington’s Crypto Debate Could Impact Louisiana’s Community Banks

For most Louisianans, the debate happening in Washington over cryptocurrency regulation can feel distant. But the outcome will have very real consequences — especially for the community banks that power local economies across the state. As Congress works toward advancing the CLARITY Act, one of the most important provisions taking shape is a bank-friendly approach to stablecoin regulation. That matters more than it might seem. Stablecoins are often described as digital dollar

Mar 302 min read

$2 Billion Lesson: How One Louisiana Parish Lost a Transformational Project—and What It Means for the Rest of the State

A revealing moment during the Louisiana House Commerce Committee’s March 18 hearing made one thing unmistakably clear: political opposition to carbon capture is no longer a theoretical debate—it is costing Louisiana real projects, real jobs, and real investment. And in Beauregard Parish, that cost has already been paid. Testifying on House Bill 670, Louisiana Economic Development’s Chief Business Development Officer Paige Carter delivered a striking example. A confidential co

Mar 193 min read

Finance & Markets

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

Louisiana Made Real Progress on Taxes. Then There's the Sales Tax.

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

$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

Washington’s Crypto Debate Could Impact Louisiana’s Community Banks

$2 Billion Lesson: How One Louisiana Parish Lost a Transformational Project—and What It Means for the Rest of the State

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