KIM: Don’t let Bitcoin turn you into the ‘greater fool’
“Greed,” “envy” and “pride” are three of the seven deadly sins, inflating not only the current bubble in Bitcoin but all the bubbles that came before and will follow.
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BOHANON & CUROTT: Market forces favored Yellowwood protectors
the controversy over the Yellowwood Back Country Area in Brown County raises an interesting question: Should conflicts over public land be resolved through a political or market process?
IBJ moving to Friday delivery, expanding ‘Book of Lists’
IBJ is changing the issue date of the newspaper from Monday to Friday, effective with the last issue of 2017.
LOU’S VIEWS: ’Tis the season to be silly in Santa’s North Pole shop
Defiance Comedy’s “The North Wing” gives us a look into the working lives of elves.
DINING: Two new breakfast spots increase morning options
We try Carmel’s Rad’s and Irvington’s Batters for the alleged most important meal of the day.
LOPRESTI: Pagano uniquely positioned to handle losses, job insecurity
Battle-tested coach has endured lousy year with grace, perspective
SKARBECK: Some new ETF products are downright wacky
ETFs can be designed to track any index or concept you can dream up. Today, a degree of silliness is showing up in many of the new ETF product offerings.
BOHANON & CUROTT: Make licensing requirements more flexible
The movement to modify licensing requirements for public schoolteachers is coming to Indiana. It’s about time.
LETTER: Downtown Indy tax needs more scrutiny
Commercial property owners, responsible for covering more than 95 percent of the proposed EID’s cost, must ask precisely what its tangible benefits will be.
GIGERICH: Make changes to venture capital tax credit
By making the tax credit refundable or transferable, investments in Indiana companies would become more attractive to investors at a time our 20 percent tax credit value is lower than that of many “best in class” entrepreneurial states.
ZWIRN: Tax bills betray GOP principles
The Republican tax bills stand among the most backward-thinking pieces of tax legislation since the 1920s.
FELTMAN: Why an avid IBJ reader became an owner
To ensure IBJ’s future, you will see us take chances and go in new directions in the coming months and years.
EDITORIAL: Instill common sense into alcohol laws
Lawmakers have an obligation to listen to their constituents and develop a system for selling alcohol that serves and protects Hoosiers’ interests first and foremost.
RITZ: A call to action of the Indiana Rural Caucus
At nearly 250,000, Indiana has a larger absolutely rural student population than all but eight other states.
IRELAND: Conservative groups shouldn’t groom just future politicos
The need for conservatives to infiltrate media, to produce art and films, and to develop and create new technologies has never been more apparent.
DANIELS: Lugar deserves all the accolades he’s receiving
We are all better off because Dick Lugar has spent his entire adult life serving his fellow citizens.
SHABAZZ: Hoosiers for Life needs to get one
All their antics do is make people like me who tend to be more agnostic on the abortion issue want to write checks to Planned Parenthood.
SHELLA: Indiana’s Statehouse as a soap opera set
All these incidents at the Statehouse involve consensual behavior, as far as I know.
ROBERTSON: Medical marijuana and the opioid crisis
Studies show … that the majority of those who use marijuana do not move on to harder drugs
SHEPARD: Indiana leaders are rising to fight opioid crisis
Last year, more of our fellow citizens died from drug abuse than died in Vietnam.