Saturday, July 5, 2025

A Hoosier economist’s take on inflation and you

Consumer price index Inflation ran at 2.1 percent per year from 1997 to 2019. Then came the pandemic recession and recovery. Inflation...

Why Biden can’t embrace COVID normality

Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the...

Who owns the history?

The Kokomo Tribune has published a fascinating story about teachers-in-training at Indiana State University and their nearly...

Classic political speeches on Indiana soil

With the advent of war comes great prose. Just as May 1940 found Prime Minister Winston Churchill...

That black hole at the center of the Milky Way? Don’t worry; be happy

To begin, this is not the way it ends. Not the way that you...

NIMBY Is alive and well

Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) demands recognition as a universal truth with claims both on natural...

Is it déjà vu or just a full brain?

Most of you have undoubtedly experienced déjà vu, that eerie sense that something you have never encountered...

Banks has seemingly cleared the GOP field for Senate run

Indiana appears poised for the unfathomable: an unopposed Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. With current Sen....

Some more insights on hospital monopolies

This is not a trick question. What do Harvard, Yale, Cal Berkeley, Princeton, the Rand Corporation, the London School of Economics, Carnegie...

Does anyone care about justice anymore?

Against my better judgment I have followed some of the news about President Donald Trump’s indictment. I’m not a lawyer and have...