Opinion

Anderson Herald Bulletin

An obscure economic fad known as Modern Monetary Theory is again in the news. This is in part because its leading advocates are backing away from several of its central predictions, while simultaneously claiming the doctrine has won the policy debate. The whole thing is a bit absurd, and should bore most thoughtful Americans. These sort of academic debates, whether they be about some obscure archeological find or mathematical proof, are best left to sort themselves out within the research community.

The Seattle Times

American manufacturers need the protection patents provide, but they do not need bad actors trying to extort money from them by filing bogus patent infringement suits. That is why, as the owner of a Hoosier manufacturing company, I support a new bill in Congress aimed at reining in the destructive tactics of patent trolls.

“Whither thou goest, I will go.” (Ruth 1:16 KJV)

The Republic

Anderson Herald Bulletin

To the editor:

Last month, my colleague Dagney Faulk and I published a study on COVID-related learning loss in Indiana schools (available at https://projects.cberdata.org). The results were surprising and largely positive — or, at least, more hopeful than I expected. The purpose of this work was to better understand what factors contributed to learning loss. What we know so far has mostly been limited to simple descriptive statistics about changes in test scores. That is a good start, but it cannot speak to correlation, much less causation about learning loss. To do so requires more math.

A white teacher in Chicago was fired recently for using the N-word in class.