I feel better about the climate for startup businesses in Missouri after meeting Jim Spencer, president and founder of Newsy. He moved the company to Columbia, Mo., a year ago from the San Francisco Bay area, and has since increased…

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…

Giant pension funds in Missouri and Illinois are tallying their losses from the great bear market of 2008, and it’s not a pretty picture.

According to the Columbia Tribune, the scorecard in Missouri looks like this:

• Public School Teachers Retirement System, down $7.8…

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…

Arthur Laffer, the economist best known for the Laffer curve, has never been a fan of big government. A severe recession hasn’t changed that view, he made clear in a speech Friday to the Association for Corporate Growth in St.…

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…

There are good reasons and bad reasons to be concerned about Wall Street’s pay structure, a subject I tackle in today’s column. Because you think nobody deserves such huge amounts of money is a bad reason; because you want to…