Letter: Nothing will prevent our deficit fate
Runaway fiat currencies throughout history, like the U.S. dollar today, all end the same: with deflation which may be preceded by hyperinflation.
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Add climate progress to recovery plans
Despite the WHO telling us years ago that climate change will exacerbate infectious disease pandemics, these twin threats are now upon us.
Editorial: Make business plans now to leap ahead when pandemic ends
This week we introduced a weekly podcast called “Beyond COVID,” with the goal of helping local companies get to the other side of the coronavirus crisis in a position to thrive.
Mitch Daniels: Scraps of good news amid coronavirus concerns
Across the economy, private and not-for-profit enterprises are going to discover which works of theirs, and which expenditures, are really essential.
Sheila Kennedy: What lessons will we learn from the pandemic?
The most important lesson to be learned by policymakers and plutocrats alike is that fortunate people are secure only when everyone is secure.
Letter: Remember our neighbors in crisis
We’ve been asked as good citizens to prevent the spread of coronavirus by social distancing. Yes—let’s all do our part. But that doesn’t mean you have to close your door—or your mind, or your heart—to friends and neighbors.
VIEWPOINT: Businesses can do more in good times to prepare for the bad
I often tell my children that, if you think you’ve saved enough, it probably still isn’t enough. One big hit can be devastating, and we are clearly in the midst of one today.
EDITORIAL: Having Lilly Endowment on our side is powerful weapon in virus war
The Lilly Endowment has long shown a deep commitment to this city and state, but rarely has it been on display in such a resounding way as during the COVID-19 crisis.
VIEWPOINT: The economic solution to the coronavirus pandemic
With most Americans stuck at home working and taking care of their children, payments directly to them will mean rent and mortgages can be paid and groceries can be purchased during this economic crisis.
VIEWPOINT: Public freedoms aren’t absolute in time of crisis
Government must have the means to react quickly and decisively to contain a catastrophic disease outbreak—actions that might infringe on individual freedoms.
Letter: Low interest rates are perpetual bailout
The March 20 Economic Analysis column [Action by Fed can have unintended consequences], which states in part that “low rates (by the Federal Reserve) encourage banks to be generous in lending …” appears to extoll the virtues of low interest rates as imposed by the Federal Reserve for the better part of the last 12 years.
EDITORIAL: Hoosiers must stay home now so economy can reopen sooner
Stay-at-home, as painful as it is for the economy, is meant to give health officials a chance to catch up and be ready for what’s to come.
VIEWPOINT: This is a good time to evaluate relationships
Social distancing is a prudent way to manage the risk of contracting a disease like the coronavirus, but it is a dangerous way to live.
VIEWPOINT: Increasing access to medicine critical to opioid treatment
Myriad factors drive the gaps in access to medication for opioid use disorder.
Letter: Coronavirus response is overblown
You would think it’s the black plague with certain death if you get this, and it isn’t.
Ed Feigenbaum: Will a special session be needed to deal with the virus in Indiana?
Not even eight hours after adjournment sine die, legislative leaders were already contemplating whether the worldwide economic situation and social-distancing issues causing event cancellations could force a special session.
Ed Feigenbaum: How would General Assembly meet during times of crisis?
It was a fortuitous decision by legislative leaders heading into January to seek adjournment sine die by March 11 or 12.
Tom Easterday: Subaru’s zero-landfill effort is example of what’s possible
In addition to helping eliminate risks to your operations, being a good environmental steward has many other benefits to businesses large and small. Having a successful environmental stewardship program can boost employee morale, enhance a company’s brand image, promote creativity and innovation among employees, increase community awareness of environmental stewardship and generate cost savings.
ROSS: Play the long game in tackling health care costs
The reality is, there are no shortcuts to reducing costs. We need our elected officials thinking about policies that invest in the health of Hoosiers in the long term.
Dennis Sasso: Helping asylum seekers is the American way
Our country has both a glorious and a shameful history of welcoming and resisting immigrants. We are a country of both generous and nativist instincts.