Backgrounder: Obamacare and a Tale of Four Students
by Linda Christiansen, M.A, J.D., and Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. This is a story about four current college students who have similar family situations. Whatever the intention of politicians, all four were harmed by the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare.” Student No. 1 is a young graduate student still fully covered by both parents’ Read the full article…
Doc Ippel: Tobacco Revenue Trumps Health Concerns
By Bruce Ippel, M.D. In the office, we have a handout for smokers that gives some potent hints and tools on how to quit. What it doesn’t cover, however, is the magnitude and scope of the economic interests trying to keep them addicted. There’s a river of money flowing into a variety of pockets from Read the full article…
Keating: The Danger of Multi-Tasking at the Fed
By Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. The belief in tons of gold in Fort Knox backing the U.S. dollar is an illusion. There is absolutely no commodity backing for the dollar, either gold or silver or anything else. The dollar is accepted on faith; it is a “fiat” currency. This means that individuals accept the dollar Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (32): Potawatomi Forced From Indiana
by Andrea Neal On the morning of Sept. 4, 1838, 859 Potawatomi were forced at gunpoint from their homes in northern Indiana and sent on foot and horseback to the “Unorganized Territory” of Kansas to begin a new life. The march became known as the Trail of Death because 42 Indians died along the way. Read the full article…
The Outstater: Indiana’s ‘Uncertainty Index’
For the use of the membership only. THESE TROUBLING TIMES tend to shrink our circle of friends in high office as statehouse ambitions clash with economic reality. But we have at least one left, a state legislator, and he has an idea for unleashing investment throughout Indiana. He would counter what the economists call “regime Read the full article…
Huston: GOP Agnosia in Ferguson
For the use of the membership only (708 words) TOO MANY REPUBLICANS miss a fact central to the disturbance playing out in Ferguson: Quite a few people get shot and killed by police officers in America every year; not many of them, however, are unarmed. Suspicions rightly arise when an unarmed individual is killed by Read the full article…
