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Eye on the Pie
MARCUS: Happy news is the remedy for reality
August 24, 2009
Morton MarcusThe elderly woman sat before me nervously straightening the seams of her dark gray stockings.
MoreMARCUS: Changing roles cause conflict
August 17, 2009
Morton MarcusAmericans are uncomfortable when responsibilities between the public and private sectors shift.
MoreMARCUS: A feast of perceptions about health care
August 10, 2009
Morton MarcusLots of people are
without health insurance, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they go without health care. Others have insurance that
doesn’t cover their needs. Either they don’t get the care or they go broke in the process.
MoreMARCUS: Economic slump inspires platitudes galore
August 3, 2009
Morton MarcusIf the problem is that consumers and businesses
are not spending because banks aren’t lending, then government making it easier for banks to lend and consumers to spend
is a good thing. The stimulus plan is right on target.
MoreMARCUS: Will children make good leaders?
July 27, 2009
Morton MarcusAs a quiet person, I am not likely to intrude when I run across egregious wrongs. Most often I let dastardly deeds go without
comment. Someday, I hope, I will overcome this character defect and stand up in opposition to wrongdoers.
MoreMARCUS: Men, women use time differently
July 20, 2009
Morton MarcusOn an average day, nearly 83 percent of women, but only 64 percent of men, spend time engaged in household
activities, according to a recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Plus, when women engage in household activities,
they average two hours and 35 minutes per day while men average two hours and one minute.
MoreMARCUS: If not taxes, how about user fees?
July 13, 2009
Morton Marcus“Most people hate to pay taxes,” Gregory Goad said. “They don’t appreciate the services taxes support,
they don’t understand why taxes are necessary, or they don’t like to help people in need.”
MoreMARCUS: Budget made by rudderless Legislature
July 6, 2009
Morton MarcusIf we are lucky, by the time you read these words the Indiana General Assembly will have passed a new budget. Democrats use
tarot cards and Republicans chicken innards to determine how much to spend. There are alternatives.
MoreMARCUS: Grouch finds good in the economy
June 29, 2009
Morton MarcusTo use a gardening metaphor, have the courage to prune back in a tough economy, and plant new seeds before the weather improves.
MoreEYE ON THE PIE: Watch your pocket; someone may pick it
June 22, 2009
Morton MarcusThe unexpected move of NCR Corp. from Ohio to Georgia illustrates how even the best corporate citizens can show a fickle streak.
MoreMARCUS: We all helped kill the auto industry
June 8, 2009
Morton MarcusThere are nearly no innocent parties to the conspiracy that brought the Big Three low, from greedy executives to combative
labor unions to elderly uninformed stockholders.
MoreMARCUS: Let's reassess reassessment
June 1, 2009
Morton MarcusThe process of assessment could be simplified and performed uniformly and inexpensively.
MoreGeneral Assembly heeds public mayhem, not public policy
May 18, 2009
Morton MarcusWhich group should make the spending decisions? Consumers or elected officials?
MoreAuthor's work may go unfinished
May 11, 2009
Morton MarcusThere are four main points I want to cover directly and simply: oil prices, the obsession with homeownership, the usual desire
for more, and the need to understand economic history.
MoreIndiana wages now well below average
May 4, 2009
Morton MarcusLast week the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its estimates of county personal income and all the detail comprising
those data.
MoreIs poor management Indiana's problem?
April 27, 2009
Morton MarcusHoosiers identify many factors contributing to our state's long-term economic difficulties. It is fashionable to blame our
workers. It is easy to decry a lack of natural amenities: no mountains, no coral reefs. Our public schools are inferior and
perhaps our higher education is overrated. Our taxes are too high but we have substandard government services. We ain't got
no culture. Rarely do we hear anyone say that our problem is management.
MoreTaxes, fees should be determined case-by-case
April 13, 2009
Morton MarcusIf an honest case for the general good cannot be made (as in the case of most education services, and, sports, entertainment
and tourist facilities), government revenue streams should not be used to support private enterprises.
MoreCommuting shifts $87 billion in Indiana
April 6, 2009
Morton MarcusFully 40 of Indiana's 92 counties derived more than half of their earnings from commuters bringing back their compensation
from somewhere else.
MoreTo boost Indiana's economic vitality, reform high schools and retrain biz leaders
March 30, 2009
Morton MarcusBeyond a sincere effort to improve high school education, we require massive retraining of our
business leaders and managers.
MoreIndiana's wage gap is growing
March 16, 2009
Morton MarcusIndiana leaders need to focus on the increasing gap between the average wage in Indiana and in the nation.
MoreFeelings may contradict economic facts
March 9, 2009
Morton MarcusHow we feel individually about the economy is often at odds with how the economy is performing.
MoreWar did not end the Great Depression
March 2, 2009
Morton MarcusIt was not World War II that moved America out of the Great Depression.
MoreEconomic illnesses are like viruses
February 23, 2009
Morton MarcusWhat kind of remedy should be applied to the economy? Surely we want something that will work quickly. But we also want something
that will help provide income in the future. That's called investment.
MoreElkhart's industries could be transformed to focus on energy conservation and environmental improvements
February 16, 2009
Morton MarcusElkhart's industries should shift to producing mass transit vehicles and manufactured housing for low-income, high-density
neighborhoods.
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.