Timmons: The Debt Number Won’t Fit in This Headline
By Tim TimmonsLast week we hit a financial landmark. We maxed out our credit card. Oh, the uppity ups in the government didn’t call it that. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explained that the U.S. reached its debt limit, a plain and simple way of saying, well, we maxed out the credit card. Except we didn’t. Read the full article…
The Outstater
‘We the People’ Pays Well “Show me a man who gets rich by being a politician, and I will show you a crook.” — Harry S Truman HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED why so many congressmen, Republican and Democrat, are rich? Of course you have, and your best guess, depending on your disposition, is that they are either Read the full article…
The McGowans: IU and “the Magna Charta Universitatum”
by Richard J. McGowan and Tyler R. McGowan What’s to become of American universities, including Indiana University? If we look across the pond, i.e., the Atlantic, we can see a reaffirmation of traditional ideas on what a university should be. Those ideas are rooted in history. The University of Bologna, the oldest university in the Western world, Read the full article…
The Outstater
A Pattern of Boondoggling VERONIQUE de RUGY, an economist for the Mercatus Center, famously said that if you miss your budget estimates 20 percent of the time you are an incompetent but if you miss them 80 percent of the time you are a liar. What would be said about the cost of a project in Read the full article…
Franke: The Travails of Local Government
By Mark Franke “I don’t do this for the money. I do it for the late-night phone calls.” — a Monroeville councilman Nearly everyone I know is disgusted with the current state of our national government. Many also feel the same way about our Indiana state government, but then I tend to associate with others of Read the full article…
Morris: Maybe Spending Has Something to Do With It
by Leo Morris When the coal started running low at the mine my father worked in, he considered several options. The one he decided on was to relocate from Kentucky to Fort Wayne, which had two major advantages. It was large enough to have plenty of employment opportunities not involving coal mines, and his sister Read the full article…
