For the record.

• Position: Brief Article

The forces of nature (read weather) and man (read war, oil prices, and interest rates) make forecasting a challenge, to put it mildly. A particularly harsh winter, unstable oil prices, a devalued dollar, and lingering problems in Iraq can wreak havoc on our economists' and econometricians' meticulously researched and modeled predictions. But the need of Indiana's businesses and policy makers for insight into the probable direction of our economies has long compelled us to publish these economic insights from some of the best economic minds at Indiana's...