Economic Growth
BPF consistently aims at encouraging Mississippi's State Government to perform their vital, core responsibilities. BPF is focused on ways to ensure the state government provides these responsibilities in an effective and cost efficient manner in our cities, where new economic ideas are born.
Featured Work
Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Why Mississippi’s Young Leaders Are Staying
Bigger Pie Forum Projects
Mississippi River Flooding
Consumer Advocate
Off the Grid Puts Someone on the Hook
Mississippi has now seen the data center problem from three vantage points. From one end, Amazon cut a sweetheart deal — SB 2001 — that handed it access to Entergy’s grid while keeping the contracts secret from the ratepayers who will subsidize it.
The Fight to Bring More Home Health Options to Mississippi
What happens when a 45-year-old law blocks innovation in health care? In this reunion episode of the Bigger Pie Forum podcast, host sits down again with physical therapist Butch Slaughter and attorney Aaron Rice to revisit a legal battle years in the making.
PODCAST: 2000 Residents, One Street, and a Chance to Save Jackson
Downtown Jackson is at a tipping point. Liz Brister, head of Downtown Jackson Partners, and her husband Bill—a retired finance professor—sit down with Wyatt Emmerich to talk population decline, property redevelopment, safety perceptions, and why one vibrant street could change everything.
AI – The Next Big Thing for the Big Machine!
Hold my ampere and read this! The next three years are going to be electrifying! Why? Turn on the financial news today and all you hear is AI (artificial intelligence) this and AI that. AI must be the next BIG THING! Some think it will be the BIGGEST THING ever. It’s the elephant in the room that nobody can stop talking about. Watt could go wrong?
BPF Book Review: ‘The Illusion of Innovation’ by Elliot Parker
Innovation and innovators are critical to a dynamic and resilient economy. They are the methods, madness and masterminds behind Joseph Schumpeter’s famous descriptive, ‘creative destruction’. So, author Elliot Parker’s new book, ‘Illusion of Innovation’ should be taken as a serious warning to economists, investors and politicians about the prospects for America’s prosperity in the years ahead. The book serves as a critical and important assessment of the state of innovation in America today.
Mini Mills, DeepSeek, and Amazon’s Data Centers
In 1969, Nucor opened its first mini steel mill in Darlington, SC. Its small electric furnaces produced steel from scrap cheaper and faster than the big integrated mills’ blast furnaces could from iron ore. Nucor disrupted the steel industry. Today, it’s the largest and most diversified steel company in North America, with a $45 billion market cap. Mini mills now account for 70% of all steel produced in the U.S. Former industry giant U.S. Steel has only two integrated mills left, a market cap of $8 billion, and is seeking to be acquired. Sic transit gloria.