Debt and financial engineering hastened CPI's demise "Knightspoint and Meyer came in sounding like the smart guys from Wall Street who were better at making money than the rubes from St. Louis. In the end, they weren’t nearly smart enough." http://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/david-nicklaus/debt-and-financial-engineering-hastened-cpi-s-demise/article_362a367b-1d5d-5a73-81ec-fac99ef6972c.html