Economic Analysis: Funding incentives encourage awarding higher grades
Perhaps the best bumper sticker for economics is: Incentives matter. This insight is vital in thinking about behavior, including how for-profit and not-for-profit firms operate.
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Editorial: Indiana’s future economy demands relentlessness
The state needs to keep up its frenetic drive toward economic progress and boost its pool of educated tech workers if it hopes to surpass other states and become a technology hub for the heartland and the nation.
Brad Chambers: An opportunity to reimagine IUPUI
By separating and delineating the responsibilities of a previously conjoined institution, both universities can implement their own visions and establish strategic aspirations, unique to their own strengths, to meet the needs of an increasingly interconnected global economy.
Geoffrey Mearns: Indiana must attack degree-attainment challenge
We want our students to be intentional about their educational experience, connecting classes and extracurricular activities with workforce outcomes that help them prepare for fulfilling careers.
Letters: Electronics plant boom is good for environment
Research from the Center for Climate and Trade shows that U.S. manufacturing is, across industries, much more carbon-efficient than the world average.
Letters: Column lacked real-world insight
The economy column analysis that customers pay the total tax load of businesses leaves out one constant: competition.
Mark Montieth: IU broadcaster Don Fischer marks 50th season
Don Fischer is the nation’s only working play-by-play announcer who has called at least 49 consecutive seasons of both football and basketball.
Lesley Weidenbener: You can do politics; just give it a try
Start small if you want. Put up a yard sign for a candidate you like. Offer to pass out yard signs to others. Show up at a zoning meeting and explain why a project will hurt your neighborhood. Send an email to your senator about a strong position you hold. Vote.
Pete the Planner: When it comes to inheritance, it’s best to be upfront
There’s some prudence in your discernment. But my gut tells me your consternation is present due to the lack of communication.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Higher taxes for the 1% won’t beat nation’s debt
Some suggest that only the “rich” should pay the increased tax revenue since they are not paying their “fair share.” Of course, what is a “fair share” is a matter of opinion.
Samantha Julka: Welcome your employee’s full being into the office
The pandemic has taught us that work and life are pretty hard to treat as two dichotomous elements of a singular person.
Mike Lopresti: Joey Chestnut to attempt popcorn record at Victory Field
The man who once put down 182 chicken wings in 30 minutes, 55 glazed doughnuts in eight and 121 Twinkies in six has developed an appetite for a new conquest. Popcorn.
Letters: Corporations would pay the tax
Your columnists never mention that a C-corporation completes a tax return, then pays the tax owed, which reduces its reported earnings to shareholders.
Letters: Kavanaugh column hits the mark
Maurer’s words—“besmirched,” “betrayed” and “flam-flam”— remind us of what went on.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: No corporation is going to pay new tax
Last week, the Senate passed a bill imposing a minimum alternative corporate income tax.
Mickey Kim: History suggests post-midterm election bounce for stocks
Historically, stock prices have been: 1. weaker in MTEYs (median annualized return of 3.1% for the Dow Jones industrial average going back to 1900) than in years one (12.7%), three (14.8%) or four (7.4%) of a presidential cycle, but, 2. stronger in the months immediately following the election itself.
Tiffany Sauder: What I’ve learned in leading through crisis
I was 29 when I went through my first work crisis.
Mark Montieth: Ray Donaldson’s career at center was notable
He played 17 seasons, starting with the Baltimore Colts in 1980 and ending with the Dallas Cowboys in 1996.
Kim and Todd Saxton: Successful startups are typically team efforts
Regardless of the analogy, a startup team must incorporate diverse talents but with a common set of core values and a passion for the problem being solved and the solution.
Pete the Planner: Talk. It will improve your finances and relationship.
I lived in a world of blissful ignorance. So does your husband.