For the business-savvy scholars at ...

For the business-savvy scholars at SIUE, Steve Forbes' visit Tuesday was as intriguing as the last sum of two units minutes of a Rose goblet game.

No, there were no fancy flea flickers, just vivid details for a creating a stronger economy from single of the most respected business minds in the world.

"For him to arise to SIUE was very exciting," said Josh Smucker a SIUE graduate bookish man and member of the Emerging Leaders Influencing Things Everywhere, or ELITE, business sodality "And for him to recognize what's going onward here in Edwardsville with the product says a lot."

Forbes was the visitor speaker for the Arts and Issues series at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. During the language the editor-in-chief of Forbes business magazine told the audience the economy is doing a parcel better than it appears.

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