CNBC⁠56%

4. Texas ⁠10%

By CNBC.com staff⁠0%

7/9/2026, 12:48:38 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Overconfidence Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 37.6% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 264 faulty-reasoning hits from 178 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 27.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠10% (18,519 of 20,515 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.30% of the article peer group.

Texas is ranked No. 4 in America's Top States for Business for 2026. 
CNBC’s annual study once again puts all 50 states to the test, measuring them on 138 metrics, the most ever, across ten categories of competitiveness. 
Economic Profile 
Governor: Greg Abbott, Republican 
Population: 31,709,821 
GDP growth (Q1 2026): 0.90% 
Unemployment rate (May 2026): 4.30% 
Top corporate tax rate: None 
Top individual income tax rate: None 
Gasoline tax: 38.40 cents/gallon 
Bond rating (Moody's/S&P): Aaa, Stable/AAA, Stable 
Economic profile sources: U.S. 
Census Bureau, U.S. 
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. 
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federation of Tax Administrators, American Petroleum Institute (including 18.40 cent/gallon federal tax), Moody's Investor Service, S&P Global Market Intelligence 
More coverage of the 2026 America's Top States for Business 
See the full list of America's Top States for Business 2026 
Inside Ohio's rise to its first No. 1 finish in our annual rankings 
Walmart's home state makes a big move up the list 
Hawaii, America's Worst State for Business, has a quality issue 
Methodology: How we chose this year's Top States for Business 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 4.1%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 4.4%CNBC: 1.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 5.6%CNBC.com staff: 3.0%CNBC: 3.3%Availability Heuristic5.6%This article: 7.3%CNBC.com staff: 1.1%CNBC: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic7.3%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 14.0%CNBC.com staff: 4.3%CNBC: 2.3%Overconfidence Bias14.0%This article: 2.2%CNBC.com staff: 0.3%CNBC: 6.7%Framing Effect2.2%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 6.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 11.8%CNBC.com staff: 2.7%CNBC: 6.9%Negativity Bias11.8%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 1.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 2.2%CNBC.com staff: 0.3%CNBC: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error2.2%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 10.7%CNBC.com staff: 3.6%CNBC: 3.0%Halo Effect10.7%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.9%CNBC: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.3%CNBC.com staff: 1.1%CNBC: 2.3%Recency Bias7.3%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 1.1%CNBC: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 17.4%CNBC.com staff: 6.9%CNBC: 5.1%Appeal to Authority17.4%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.6%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 4.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 5.6%CNBC.com staff: 0.9%CNBC: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion5.6%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 3.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 7.3%CNBC.com staff: 1.1%CNBC: 0.2%Composition/Division7.3%This article: 5.6%CNBC.com staff: 0.9%CNBC: 1.3%Anecdotal5.6%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.6%CNBC.com staff: 0.9%CNBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)5.6%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.3%CNBC: 2.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 1.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 5.6%CNBC.com staff: 3.0%CNBC: 3.6%Biased Writer Voice5.6%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 1.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%CNBC.com staff: 0.0%CNBC: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 2.2%CNBC.com staff: 0.3%CNBC: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias2.2%This article: 37.6%CNBC.com staff: 5.7%CNBC: 5.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…37.6%

178 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers31%attributed speech122writer words
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CNBC

100%flagged-word coverage
25 attributed words45% of attributed speech72% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -36.1 ptsWriter: 36.1%CNBC: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-8.2 ptsWriter: 8.2%CNBC: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -3.3 ptsWriter: 3.3%CNBC: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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