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11.04.2009 12:02 pm

Banks bear most costs of bank rescues, Kemper says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis banker David Kemper doesn’t like some of the rhetoric he’s hearing about bank bailouts. In particular, he said this morning in a speech at Washington University’s Olin School of Business, he doeesn’t like the fact that banks have…

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10.16.2009 12:06 am

Crotchety, maybe, but we aren’t the grouchy sort

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

MayorSlay.com was nice enough to nominate this blogger/columnist for its local version of the Nobel prize in economics, but the honor came with sort of a backhanded compliment. Here’s how the nomination is phrased:

David Nicklaus, for his grouchy financial columns in…

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08.31.2009 2:49 pm

Firm plans to restart Missouri oil wells

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The markets haven’t been kind to MegaWest Energy, the Canadian company that began producing oil in western Missouri last year. Falling oil prices forced the company to suspend production jst a few months after it started, and the wells have been idle…

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03.13.2009 6:12 pm

This blog’s a (temporary) casualty of the recession

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I won’t dwell on the irony here, but the economy is forcing Mound City Money to take a few days off from writing about the economy. Like dozens of other employers, the Post-Dispatch is forcing employees to take time off…

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03.03.2009 8:45 am

Missouri’s college savings plan ranks fourth in performance

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Missouri Saving for Tuition Plan ranked fourth in investment performance last year among similar college-savings plans, according to a report by SavingForCollege.com. The state-sponsored investments, generically known as 529 plans, are a tax-advantaged way to save for college.

Among 53 plans…

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12.16.2008 3:57 pm

Automakers need bankruptcy, Nobel-winning economist says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Count Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, among the commentators who think troubled U.S. carmakers need to go through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Stiglitz wrote in the Financial Times recently:

The US car industry will not be shut down, but it does need to…

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12.09.2008 11:54 pm

Kansas group abandons casino plan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri’s casinos clearly don’t like competition. They lobbied hard for voter passage of Proposition A, which caps the number of casino licenses in the state at 13. Now, casinos in western Missouri don’t have to worry about competition directly across…

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11.19.2008 11:17 am

The blogger as action hero

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thanks to a new site called Typealyzer, you can now find out what kind of person writes this blog (or any other blog that you follow. It turns out that I’m one of the Doers:

The active and playful type. They are especially…

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11.11.2008 2:23 pm

“Good to Great” companies can fail, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Yesterday’s bankruptcy filing by Circuit City Stores was the second black mark this year for the list of companies singled out by Jim Collins in his 2001 book, “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap, and Others Don’t.”…

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