08.24.2009 10:24 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis stands to lose about 10,000 more jobs before it begins to recover, and will need until 2014 to regain all the jobs lost during this recession, according to a new forecast from IHS Global Insight.
The firm says St.…

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08.06.2009 5:57 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tim Fischesser, executive director of the St. Louis County Municipal League, belatedly wants to take issue with the assertion that St. Louis is getting its fair share of stimulus dollars. In a July 9 post, I cited an IHS Global…

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07.28.2009 2:31 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri still stands to lose more than 20,000 jobs before its economy turns around, and Illinois will still shed more than 40,000 jobs, according to a new forecast from IHS Global Insight. The firm also predicts that Missouri won’t regain…

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07.09.2009 11:47 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As the New York Times reported Thursday morning, many of the nation’s biggest cities are not getting their fair share of highway spending from the federal stimulus bill. Overall, according to a study that IHS Global Insight did for the U.S.…

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04.29.2009 1:25 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Swine flu fears caused a bit of a selloff on Wall Street this week but, considering the potential for economic devastation, it’s surprising that the reaction wasn’t more severe. Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, says the flu outbreak…

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04.22.2009 2:03 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis has lost nearly 40,000 jobs in just over a year. According to this map from IHS Global Insight, it will take up to five years to gain them back.

The legend is a bit hard to read, but the yellow…

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