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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.”…