07.06.2009 10:46 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis lacks resilience in the way it has responded to mounting mortgage foreclosures, a new academic study says. The study, published by the MacArthur Foundation, says that while local non-profit groups have ramped up their efforts,
The weakness is that the resources…

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02.24.2009 3:34 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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01.29.2009 12:16 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Even as an $819 billion economic stimulus bill moves forward in Congress, about 200 economists have signed an advertisement saying that it won’t work. The ad, funded by the Cato Institute, starts out with a quote from Barack Obama saying that “there is…

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01.21.2009 4:40 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Plenty of press releases make their way to Mound City Money every day, but rarely do we see such a seemingly contradictory pair as we saw in a matter of minutes today.
- At 3:48 p.m., Brown Shoe used that old euphemism, “expense reduction…

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