Ingram's Magazine: January 2017
It’s almost enough to make one question whether the prospects for business growth are truly grounded in economic fundamentals, rather than something much harder to gauge—like the concept of optimism itself. After a recession of historic proportions that ended in…
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(Front row seated, left to right) Gordon Lansford | JE Dunn Construction (host, sponsor and co-chair); Bill Fagan | Design Mechanical, Inc. (sponsor and co-chair); Tom Buchanan | McDowell, Rice, Smith & Buchanan (sponsor and co-chair); Paul Rodriguez | Rodriguez…
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More Than Shop Talk It Started With a Simple Goal: If We All Sit Down and Chat for a Spell, It Might Be Good for Business As things turned out, a seat at the table for the annual Construction Industry…
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One day at a time. Isn’t that what the Little League coach used to preach? One play at a time, one game at a time—just focus on the very next step. But what if that’s a recipe for incremental disaster?…
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The Heart of a Nation, Beating Proudly Meet 50 Missourians whose achievements set them apart. What makes the Show-Me State the centerpiece of America? We can give you 350 reasons why Missouri is both a state of mind and a…
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“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.”— Donald Trump Fitting, perhaps, that we cite the nation’s designated deal-maker-in-chief—who closed on the biggest deal of his own career last Nov. 8—as we survey the top-dollar transactions around …
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With the economic recovery now into latter stages, how are the fundamentals poised? We live in a world of change. In fact, we see significant signs of acceleration of change no matter where we look. There is an acceleration of…
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With a new president, many are expecting major tax changes. Looking through the Trump tax plan, it appears to mirror the Reagan tax cuts (the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986), with some…
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