Pacific Research Institute
Business & Economics
California: The National Petri Dish
Supposedly, trends start in California and then spread to the rest of the country, a notion that seems to be confirmed by the latest economic news. In May, California’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent—the highest it has been since 1941. This morning we learn that unemployment for the entire country ...
Business & Economics
Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market
Encore Online (Wilmington, NC), June 29, 2009 While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation ...
California
The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
Commentary
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
Business & Economics
Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
Commentary
What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?
Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
Business & Economics
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
Health Care
John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”
John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
Commentary
California Civil Rights Panel Appointed
WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Commentary
Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?
Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
California: The National Petri Dish
Supposedly, trends start in California and then spread to the rest of the country, a notion that seems to be confirmed by the latest economic news. In May, California’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent—the highest it has been since 1941. This morning we learn that unemployment for the entire country ...
Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market
Encore Online (Wilmington, NC), June 29, 2009 While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation ...
The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?
Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”
John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
California Civil Rights Panel Appointed
WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?
Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
