SKARBECK: Rebalancing portfolio not always best option
In the current market environment, the enterprising investor would say year-end auto rebalancers are making the mistake of selling highly valued stocks, only to buy even more overpriced bonds.
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BOHANON & CUROTT: Cut in marginal tax rate should spur growth
What we like best about the new federal tax law is that it reduces marginal tax rates for almost all taxpayers, both individual and corporate.
DINING: Noblesville staple opens north-side Indy outpost
Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano’s 86th St. location maintains charm and menu of the original.
LOU’S VIEWS: Best movies of 2017
An animated masterwork tops the list. And, yes, the latest “Star Wars” film made the cut.
LETTER: End war on hemp oil
Unless the General Assembly acts soon, CBD oil will no longer be available to Hoosiers who suffer from epilepsy, PTSD and addiction to opioids.
ROSS: A tax credit that works for Indiana
Compared with new construction, rehabilitation projects spend a larger percentage of costs on skilled labor, tend to keep wages and materials dollars within the community, and result in renovated buildings that tend to last longer and retain value longer than comparable new construction.
COOK & CULP: Workforce development to dominate session
Workforce has been a signature focus during Gov. Eric Holcomb’s first year in office, and it will continue to be a priority going into 2018.
PITTSFORD: Don’t skip succession planning in family businesses
Only 30 percent of family businesses make it to the second generation, and only 15 percent make it to the third generation
EDITORIAL: Let’s make strides on smoking crisis by raising smoking age
Health care research finds that young people have a propensity to start smoking in their late teens but are highly unlikely to start once they reach 21.
URBAN DESIGN: Food culture is evolving along with our urban lifestyles
Food and our built environment are interacting and affecting one another like never before.
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.
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.