Tulsa #3 - Most Balanced Economy & Growth

[Chicken Little]

Inc. Magazine, (not to be confused with Forbes and related threads), has released their Top US Cities for doing business in 2005.  They looked at 274 metros.  Tulsa rates a mediocre #186 in "Best Places Overall", and a poor #258 in "Fastest, Most Sustaned Growth", but get a #3 in "Most Balanced Economy and Growth".  

Joel Kotkin headed up the research.

The best explanation I can find for this is that our employment is balanced nicely across all sectors, compared to lower ranking cities.  

http://www.inc.com/bestcities/2005/sector_search.html?city=tulsa&state=&year=2005

Either that or Kotkin wants to get invited back for another lecture[].