Paul Samuelson, an economist of some note--and an MIT man--once said the stock market has predicted nine of the past five recessions. So if you're looking to money players to predict the economic future, and watching Wall Street daily, you'd probably do just as well by reading chicken guts.

And yet.

The papers say consumer confidence has taken a hit. Experts say tariffs will soon lead to inflation. And recession surely is in our near future. And yet . . . Arkansas is doing pretty well, considering. We're outperforming the rest of the nation in several economic areas.

For one, the unemployment........

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