Bohanon: A Drive Down the Center of the Road
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. The 2012 election is history. At both a national and state level neither party had a clean-sweep. In Washington, the Democrats retained the White House and expanded their Senate majority but failed to take the House from Republican control. In Indianapolis, the GOP got the governor’s mansion and a veto-proof House Read the full article…
Watts: A Bad Example for the New Governor
by Tyler Watts, Ph.D. Every scientific field has its annals of ancient, failed ideas. In medicine, there’s blood-letting with leeches. In geology there’s the flat-earth model and astronomy has its geocentric theory. And in economics, there’s mercantilism, which oddly enough had a lot in common with one candidate’s plan for job creation in the recent Read the full article…
Seminar This Friday
Nov. 9, 2012 If you haven’t ordered your ticket, click here to join us this Friday Nov. 16 (ticket sales close at 4 p.m. Nov. 12) at the Charlie Creek Inn for a seminar on how the citizens of Indiana can get their economies running again. The all-day format provides time for discussion of side issues, participation Read the full article…
What’s it Going to Be: Community or Government?
by Jeff Abbott, Ph.D., J.D. There has been an ominous tone developing in this year’s presidential election. No, it is not the ugly personal attacks, negative ads by special interest groups or promises that pander to special interest groups. Those have been part of the fabric of America’s elections for far too long. There is Read the full article…
Schansberg: The Bull Moose Party and ‘Progressives’
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. Happy Centennial to the 1912 “Bull Moose Progressive Party”. This short-lived political party[1] had its most notable connection to Teddy Roosevelt—a former president who was its standard bearer and claimed to be “as fit as a bull moose.” Beyond surviving an assassination attempt[2], Teddy had the best showing for a “third-party” presidential Read the full article…
Keating: Monetary Activism and the FED
by MARYANN O. KEATING, Ph.D. The Federal Reserve System (FED) is regularly in the news, and Ben Bernanke has become a household name. But of what importance is this to the ordinary Hoosier household? From high-school U.S. history we recall that President Andrew Jackson was suspicious of Eastern bankers and refused to re-charter the National Read the full article…
