As I mentioned in Sunday’s column, St. Louis University economist Jack Strauss thinks the lack of an entrepreneurial culture is a big reason why St. Louis has a tortoise-like economy. At a conference Thursday sponsored by SLU’s Simon Center for Regional…

Robert Rasche, research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, says an Arkansas reporter misquoted him as saying “depression” when he talked about the current recession. Just to make sure a St. Louis University audience understood the distinction, he…

Jack Strauss, head of St. Louis University’s Simon Center for Regional Economic Forecasting, predicted today that metro St. Louis will lose about 0.1 percent of its jobs during 2009. A shrinking job market is always bad news, but Strauss’ forecast would…

When last we talked to Ken Matheny of Macroeconomic Advisers, he was predicting that the recession would end in the second quarter of 2009. Now, he has pushed the projected recovery back to the third quarter. He also thinks gross…

The editors of the Current, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, are unhappy about the name of the school’s new business school building. They split hairs about why it will be called “Anheuser-Busch Hall” instead of “Anheuser-Busch…

Washington University’s Olin School of Business has the 28th-best MBA program in the country, according to Business Week’s new biennial rankings. That’s down a notch from 27th place in the 2006 ranking, and a fair bit below the 17th-place slot that…