Some major foundations in central Indiana are narrowing grantmaking criteria so they can funnel their reduced asset streams
toward pressing needs brought on by the recession.
Glenn S. Lyon, the new head at The Finish Line Inc., has plenty to tackle. Traffic is down at Finish Line stores, sales have slowed and competitors are slashing prices.
If world leaders don’t quickly demonstrate the courage to stop printing money, the long term is shot. And since that courage
isn’t likely to surface anytime soon, investors should rethink traditional strategies now.
When our economy is
challenged, American resilience and resourcefulness have heretofore always saved the day. I have good reason to believe those
traits will save the day once again.
Expeditious and clever spending on roads, infrastructure and, in the half-dozen states where it is possible, a tax cut will determine the success of the stimulus plan.
Don’t lose sight of viable businesses in your own backyard.
Gov. Mitch Daniels said yesterday he wants to spare schools and public safety from the scalpel as he looks
to prepare an honestly balanced budget during a time of declining tax revenue.
But Democrats accuse the Republican of crimping…
College affordability has gained a lot of attention over the past few years, but I am not sure that the simple focus on costs
is the right way to think about the
problem.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has ordered a string of budget cuts as the recession hammers tax revenue, and the upcoming
General Assembly promises to generate squabbles over what little money is left to spend.
If you were governor, what would…
Stock markets fell, jobs disappeared, and the outlook for the economy seemed to grow grimmer by the week in 2008. Banks, real estate developers, retailers and manufacturers took some of the worst hits, but all types of businesses in central
Indiana felt the pain.
Unless markets surge in the final days of the year, 2008 will go down as the worst year for stocks since the Great Depression.
Davis Homes, one of the state’s largest home builders, fell victim to the tough housing market, ceasing operations July 23.
Now expecting $935 million less in annual revenue than they did a year ago, legislators will spend the next four months arguing
over budget cuts.
I think about the economic crisis, the housing crisis, the climate crisis, the energy crisis, the automotive crisis, the Middle
East crisis, the education crisis, the college affordability crisis and all the other crises — real, imagined and manufactured
— and I wonder whether they’ll drive us to the precipice, or even the apocalypse, and whether we’ll change at the last
minute, and, should we survive, whether we’ll remember what we want to forget or forget what we want to remember.
Property-tax caps should help Hoosier homeowners save a bundle next year.
Great leaders are not born out of good times â?? they are born out of severe challenge.
Eric Johnson, Conseco Inc.’s president over its investment unit called 40/86 Advisors, talked with IBJ about the surprises
of the investing world over the last 18 months.
A new report shows that, despite a sluggish national economy, the Indianapolis area should continue to attract industrial
businesses and distribution centers next year.
The clouds of darkness will pass, fear will be removed, and the light of the season will linger in those who seek it.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has no plans to repeat Indiana’s tax-amnesty program that recovered about $245 million from delinquent
payers in 2005.
