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…

After a few days off, I’m still trying to catch up with all the commentary about the AIG bonuses. Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times attracted many negative comments after saying that the government should honor employees’ contracts. Here’s…

Whenever something goes wrong, it’s human instinct to find a scapegoat. Since things have gone terribly wrong with the economy, Time magazine is asking readers to assign blame to a lineup of 25 politicians, bankers, Wall Street moguls and others.…

The flurry of financial-institution bailouts is having an indirect effect on Maritz Inc., Chief Executive Steve Maritz told a St. Louis RCGA audience this morning. The problem is that once a company takes taxpayer funds, its travel and meetings practices come…