On this week’ edition of Talk Business & Politics:

Are the GOP tax cuts having their desired effect? UA Walton College Economist Mervin Jebaraj crunches the numbers.

Home Bancshares is on a record setting roll with profits, but its stock price isn’t where its company leader wants it to be. We’ll go one-on-one with chairman Johnny Allison.

And UAMS has a new chancellor. Meet Dr. Cam Patterson. Two months on the job, he’s already steering UAMS in some new directions. Hear more about his vision in our conversation.

On this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics:

President Trump and Vladimir Putin and the congressional reaction. Fourth District Congressional candidate Hayden Shamel shares her views on this and what she would do differently.

Tourism in Arkansas is looking at the past present and the future.  Kane Webb, executive director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism and Mark Christ of The Arkansas Department of Heritage join me for a conversation.

Small businesses in Arkansas have an ally on their side in Edward Haddock, director of U.S. Small Business Administration Arkansas Operations talks shop.   

These interviews plus local headlines of the week.