Cecil Bohanon & Nick Curott: Economic fix requires more than jobless reforms
The problem is not so much a lack of available jobs.
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Pete the Planner: Encourage grads to start saving for retirement now
New grads will face many challenges, but if they address the retirement challenge from the very beginning, everything else will fall into place.
Letter: Unemployment benefits are disincentive to work
It’s not “Donald Trump’s immigration policy” and his “disdain for Black and brown people” (ridiculous statements) that are keeping hospitality workers in short supply. Laborers are few in a lot of industries these days.
Mickey Kim: Mr. Spock would find ‘SPAC-mania’ totally illogical
Unlike regular companies, SPACs are “shell companies” with no commercial operations at the time of their IPO.
Patrick Cross: Health and life sciences trends for 2021 and beyond
Emerging from the pandemic, health and life sciences companies have a unique opportunity to leverage lessons learned for the benefit of the patients they serve.
Bohanon & Curott: Taxing capital gains like job income is bad idea
Taxing dividends and capital gains encourages too much consumption and too little savings, which is to the long-term detriment of households and the larger economy.
Mike Lopresti: Baseball is coming back to Victory Field
What happens to a ballpark when it must sit idle for so long? Maybe we should ask the guy who takes care of the place.
In the workplace: Innovation can bring better work-life balance
As executives, one way we grow our impact and scale our performance is by creating standard operating procedures for our team. So why can’t we do that for ourselves when distinguishing between work and life?
Editorial: Holcomb’s regional grant program holds great promise
READI will encourage neighboring counties, cities and towns to partner and apply for grants of up to $50 million per region.
Lesley Weidenbener: Buying, selling and reporting the deal
Merger and acquisition stories can seem straightforward enough, but they’re often complicated by the companies’ decisions to keep the financial terms confidential, the desire of the parties to control the message to their employees and customers, and the emotions inevitably wrapped up in these transactions.
Morton Marcus; Who gains and who loses from the forthcoming reapportionment?
While Hamilton and Marion counties are the biggest winners, Madison, Wayne, Delaware, Grant and Lake will have less representation and will be the biggest losers.
Chris Watts: Indiana’s two-year budget tackles 20-year population challenge
Population belongs on the list of Indiana’s most daunting long-term challenges, alongside education. Sure, our schools need to prepare more Hoosiers for success in the job market, but building our economy also takes more Hoosiers—period.
Letter: Other schools have female presidents
I was disappointed to see that your article suggested that there were only three Indiana colleges and universities who are currently under female leadership. Noticeably, you neglected to mention Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Bohanon & Curott: Inflation higher than 4% is likely in next five years
Inflation is certain to rise unless the Fed removes some of the newly created money from circulation as velocity rises.
Pete the Planner: Life insurance is an important financial-planning tool
Twenty years ago, you took action on a major hole in your financial plan and then spent the last 20 years making the best of the time you bought yourself.
Editorial: Holcomb’s lawsuit is necessary step in unfortunate power struggle
We have supported Holcomb’s handling of the pandemic as well as the larger concept that—as the state’s elected chief executive—it’s the governor’s job to lead the state through an emergency.
Sheila Kennedy: Connecting some dots in the hospitality industry
Researchers estimate that the pandemic has cost America 2.5 million restaurant jobs and closed more than 100,000 eateries, so it is worrisome that, just as the nation begins to return to whatever “normal” looks like, so many restaurants that did survive can’t find staffers.
William Hume: Speedway offers opportunities for electric vehicle research
The best profit makers will be all about green climate innovations, and one of these is electrified transportation. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway can be a big part of clean-energy research and development.
Letter: Sen. Young works to defund elderly, sick
There is no sound economic reason for continuing to fund Social Security and Medicare hospitalization solely through collection of payroll taxes and cutting benefits.
In the workplace: Trust will be imperative in hybrid work models
Organizations and teams who are successfully working hybrid have individuals and managers who trust each other.