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Category: Business

With Trump, is there a line between business and government?

December 13, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Business, Environment, Good government, Government, Justice, Labor and unions, Taxes Leave a comment

The idea of a Donald Trump presidency has me musing about what we were supposed to learn in school. We were taught that capitalism

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What Hillary could say about trade agreements

September 27, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Business, Hillary Clinton 2 comments

During the first Presidential debate of 2016, the one issue that Trump “won” was trade. Clearly, Hillary Clinton needs a better answer on this

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The social and political costs of the Rio Olympics

August 12, 2016 Chris Harden Business, Housing, International, Poverty, Sports Leave a comment

Throughout the coming weeks of sport and competition, keep in mind the cost Rio and Brazil are bearing to host us. More than 77,000 citizens

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With friends like hedge fund managers, education reform does not need enemies

May 25, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Business, Capitalism, Corporations, Education One comment

One of the oddities, for me, about what is happening in education now is how those promoting more standardized testing are called “reformers.” Really,

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What Hillary Clinton might say to help herself

February 6, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Banks, Business, Campaigns, Economy, Financial reform, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Hillary Clinton finds herself on the defensive, doing rope-a-dope, against certain charges from both the media and Bernie Sanders. Where Sanders is concerned, Clinton’s

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Trying to look sympathetically at Trans-Pacific Partnership

April 20, 2015 Arthur Lieber Business, Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, Employment, Foreign Policy, International, Labor and unions, Obama Leave a comment

In the 19th Century, the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “dismal science” for the field of economics. With the help of new

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Let the feds be tax collectors for all

March 2, 2015 Arthur Lieber Business, Federalism, Good government, Infrastructure, Missouri region, Taxes 3 comments

In the next few years, two of the biggest potential economic developments in the St. Louis metropolitan area may be a new stadium for

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More health insurers offer “Obamacare” plans, shifting the political landscape

October 6, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Business, Corporations, Health care, Politics One comment

Good news for health-insurance shoppers, bad news for Obamacare haters. For the 2015 enrollment period [which begins on November 15, 2014], healthcare shoppers will

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Bob’s Red Mill owner gives company to employees

August 6, 2014 Madonna Gauding Business Leave a comment

Bob Moore, a retired automobile service manager and advocate of healthy eating, founded Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods with his wife Charlee, in 1978.

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“Right to farm” amendment in MO: The invisible small print

July 30, 2014 Willy Kessler 2014 Election, Business, Corporations, Missouri region, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

You’re familiar with the classic situation of somebody who gets hoodwinked because they didn’t read the small print. Well, it looks like we’ve got

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