This week's headlines: 

• Werner Buys Baylor
• Biden’s “Inflation” Play
• Happy Holidays for DHL Workers
• Reshoring on the Rise
• Hot Cold Storage

This week's headlines:

• Your New Drivers
• 300K for DCG
• TA Realty’s $99M Deal
• $97M Sews up Sale
• FedEx Strikes Back  

This week's headlines:

• Medline’s Inventory Strategy
• Hat Trick Plus Two
• Werner COO Takes a Backseat
• Foreign Investors Seek Stability
• JLL’s $99M Deal
• Green Concrete?

We see the impacts that leaders have on teams and organizations everywhere across all industries. You can see this from company culture all the way down to the bottom line.

Our economic development members will attest to the importance of quality leadership, which can even supersede more tangible community resources.

If honors were given for dubious economic merit, the June inflation rate might take the gold. According to Trading Economics, inflation hit 9.1 percent midway through 2022, not only above expectations of 8.8 percent, but also the highest since November of 1981.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

Meanwhile, President Joseph Biden in a July statement vowed to bring down the price of gas, urge Congress to pass consumer cost-reduction legislation and give full rein by the Federal Reserve “to combat inflation.” (In fact, it did raise the federal funds rate another 75 basis points in July.)