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10.07.2009 3:08 pm

Financial illiteracy is rampant among the young

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Once upon a time, a twenty-something American’s finances were pretty simple. You graduated from school, started earning a paycheck, opened a checking account and maybe took out a car loan. Today’s young people, though, have to cope with student loans…

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09.15.2009 5:41 pm

Home cooking: CEOs’ mortgages predict how they’ll run the firm

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Some CEOs are risk takers, willing to leverage their companies to the hilt in an attempt to pump up profits. Others are more conservative, eschewing debt to avoid the risk of failure. If you want to find out which type…

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04.03.2009 2:05 pm

Warning: Flunking this quiz may endanger your financial health

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For some of us, compound interest and the time value of money are pretty basic concepts. But for a majority of Americans, according to a new study by professors from Dartmouth and Harvard, they’re about as foreign as Greek or…

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12.01.2008 11:20 am

Rival executive says Charter isn’t cheap to buy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Time Warner Cable’s chief financial officer, Rob Marcus, made some interesting remarks today about competitor Charter Communications. Reuters has the report:

“Charter is an example of a situation when you really have to look at more than the stock price,” CFO Rob Marcus…

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