Feelings may contradict economic facts
How we feel individually about the economy is often at odds with how the economy is performing.
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Medical records bonanza?-WEB ONLY
Grab a partner and dance. Fast. The stimulus bill passed last month essentially sets a five-year time line for doctors to start using electronic medical records and for states to figure out how to exchange those records from doctor to doctor. That has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look […]
EYE ON THE PIE: Feelings may contradict economic facts-WEB ONLY
In this space last week, I wrote that the Great Depression ended in 1937. Several readers reminded me that for those who lived through it, the Great Depression did not feel over until much later. For some, hardship and denial did not end until well after World War II. Others failed to see significant improvement […]
Medical records bonanza?-WEB ONLY
Grab a partner and dance. Fast. The stimulus bill passed last month essentially sets a five-year time line for doctors to start using electronic medical records and for states to figure out how to exchange those records from doctor to doctor. That has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look […]
Y&L starts digital unit first rollout in decade-WEB ONLY
Young & Laramore, the city’s largest advertising agency, has launched a division focusing on digital and design work. It’s the first new division for the firm since it launched EchoPoint Media, its media buying arm, more than 10 years ago. Y&L is picking a precarious time to expand. North American advertising spending overall is expected […]
Greening the Toby-WEB ONLY
The 600-seat Randall L. and Marianne W. Tobias Theater (nicknamed The Toby) sits at the nexus of two cultural frontiers. On the arts front, it offers a home to cutting-edge entertainers, speakers and films. On the environmental front, the newly remodeled performance space is arguably the greenest facility of its kind in the nation. It […]
30-somethings aim for $1M-WEB ONLY
If angel investors have any hair left, it’s usually gray from a lifetime spent in entrepreneurship. That’s what makes Gravity Ventures LLC unusual. The 15 professionals who recently formed the $1 million fund are all in their 30s. “The folks in our group are still in the ‘doing’ part of their careers, so that brings […]
Green construction takes root in Indiana-WEB ONLY
Businesses have seized on environmental responsibility as a marketing mantra. But many have made their products, processes and facilities greener. Some are motivated by philosophical reasons, and others by rising energy bills and out of anticipation of federal regulations on carbon dioxide. Six experts in green issues shared their outlook during IBJ’s Power Breakfast Feb. […]
Dave Wilson: Farewell to the King
News came last night (see story here) that Dave Wilson was among 105 full and part-time Emmis employees caught in the most recent round of layoffs.
When I arrived in Indy nearly 15 years ago, Dave “The King” Wilson was…
War did not end the Great Depression
It was not World War II that moved America out of the Great Depression.
Pulliam Trust sponsors support for addicts
The recovery experts at Fairbanks Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center last year launched a recovery management program, thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
Hard work, but no pay-WEB ONLY
The most up-to-date report about white-collar job losses in Indianapolis comes every Monday at dawn in the parking lot at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. The number of cars that pull in to attend the weekly gatherings of the Business and Professional Exchange has more than doubled in the last two months. Inside, men and […]
EYE ON THE PIE: War did not end the Great Depression-WEB ONLY
It’s time to set the record straight. It was not World War II that moved America out of the Great Depression. When we talk about the American economy, we discuss the actual or “real” goods and services produced in this country. To compare one year with another, we must remove price changes so we can […]
SURF THIS: YouTube isn’t the only place to watch, share videos-WEB ONLY
By now, it seems nearly everyone on the planet has heard of YouTube, Google’s popular video sharing site. You’ve probably either watched a video there-whether for research or to laugh at someone falling down. You might have even posted something. But you might be surprised to know that YouTube isn’t the only such site available, […]
Hotels wary of shouldering larger load-WEB ONLY
Raising Indianapolis’ tax on hotel rooms-already one of the highest rates in the nation-could be the tipping point that causes conventioneers to bypass Indianapolis, some industry experts say. Marion County hotels already pay 16 percent in sales taxes-the 9-percent innkeeper’s tax, plus the 7-percent state sales tax. An increase in the innkeeper’s tax would push […]
Ringing up fewer sales-WEB ONLY
Forget for the moment Brightpoint Inc.’s $344 million loss in the fourth quarter. It was mostly indigestion in the form of a goodwill impairment charge from buying Europe’s biggest wireless distributor in 2007. Just how the recession has gotten Brightpoint’s number is perhaps better reflected in a more mundane measure: After years of torrid gains […]
All of us Belongers, building castles in the sand
On vacation in the British West Indies, we see the decline from just a year ago at this same beautiful spotâ??fewer families at play, fewer retirees strolling arm and arm, fewer young couples slathering one another with sunscreen.
Economic illnesses are like viruses
What 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.ICVA seeks extra $15M to market new center-WEB ONLY
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association says it needs more sales and marketing firepower to fill an expanded convention center and adjacent hotels. That means asking the city’s Capital Improvement Board-one of ICVA’s primary sources of funds-for a budget increase of up to 50 percent at the worst possible time. ICVA says it needs an […]
Persistence pays off-WEB ONLY
Catheter Research Inc. should have disappeared a long time ago. But the Indianapolis company has persevered through numerous challenges-17 straight profitless years, a bankruptcy reorganization, a stint as a subsidiary of Biomet Inc., and a dispute among its owners. It now is flying high-even in the midst of a bad economy. Catheter Research grew its […]