Pacific Research Institute
Business & Economics
Impact – February 2008
PRI Ideas in Action – February 2008 Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report PRI continues to impact public policy in California, the nation, and abroad. Click below to view PRI’s recent contributions.
Agriculture
Bad Biofuel Policy Boosts Asian Inflation
Asia Sentinel (Hong Kong), 19 February 2008 The US decision to divert food crops for motor-fuel is proving a costly mistake – especially for Asia. What has long been predicted – that the US decision to push the use of corn to make biofuel would be a costly mistake – ...
Agriculture
Ethanol craze boosts food prices, world hunger
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), February 15, 2008 Press Dakotan, February 15, 2008 Billings Gazette (MT), February 12, 2008 Investor’s Business Daily, February 11, 2008 WASHINGTON – The red-hot congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol is starting to leave many supermarket customers feeling mighty blue these days as they pay ...
Business & Economics
State-subsidized broadband a bad idea
There are some in government intent on improving what already works just fine, often to the detriment of nearly everyone. The latest unnecessary fix of what’s not broken is a preposterous, counter-productive, exorbitantly expensive proposal to use state-issued bonds to bring ultra-fast Internet connections to every remote California nook and ...
Business & Economics
Impact – January 2008
PRI Ideas in Action – January 2008 Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report PRI continues to impact public policy in California, the nation, and abroad. Click below to view PRI’s recent contributions.
Business & Economics
CNBC: Interest Rate Forecasts with PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins
CNBC News, January 30, 2008 A look ahead of the Fed’s decision, with Robert McTeer, National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA); Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute and CNBC’s Sue Herera
Health Care
Who Owns Your Health Care?
CATO Institute featured this clipping of John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, in their Cato Weekly Video. from the June 22, 2007 event “Who Owns Your Healthcare?”
Classroom Ideology
Pell Grants for Kids a Good Idea
As someone who strongly believes that *ALL* parents (not just wealthy ones) should have true school choice in this country, I’m glad to see President Bush call for the creation of a “Pell Grants for Kids” program in his final State of the Union address. While the details of the ...
California
New PRI Report Exposes True Cost of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Health Care Proposal
Proposal costs 2 ½ times more than planned, 50,000 to 100,000 jobs lost annually Introducing the California “Sick Tax” Calculator San Francisco — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed $14 billion dollar health care plan would likely cost $36 billion in 2010 – 2.5 times more than budgeted – according to California ...
Business & Economics
True Hollywood Scandals: The Courtroom Legacy of Anna Nicole Smith with Horace Cooper.
Anna Nicole Smith’s life was a tabloid’s dream. Even though she passed away almost one year ago, her saga lives on in the media through battles ranging from paternity disputes to prescription drug abuse to disputed legal fees. As the 9th Circuit gets ready to take up her case again, ...
Impact – February 2008
PRI Ideas in Action – February 2008 Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report PRI continues to impact public policy in California, the nation, and abroad. Click below to view PRI’s recent contributions.
Bad Biofuel Policy Boosts Asian Inflation
Asia Sentinel (Hong Kong), 19 February 2008 The US decision to divert food crops for motor-fuel is proving a costly mistake – especially for Asia. What has long been predicted – that the US decision to push the use of corn to make biofuel would be a costly mistake – ...
Ethanol craze boosts food prices, world hunger
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), February 15, 2008 Press Dakotan, February 15, 2008 Billings Gazette (MT), February 12, 2008 Investor’s Business Daily, February 11, 2008 WASHINGTON – The red-hot congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol is starting to leave many supermarket customers feeling mighty blue these days as they pay ...
State-subsidized broadband a bad idea
There are some in government intent on improving what already works just fine, often to the detriment of nearly everyone. The latest unnecessary fix of what’s not broken is a preposterous, counter-productive, exorbitantly expensive proposal to use state-issued bonds to bring ultra-fast Internet connections to every remote California nook and ...
Impact – January 2008
PRI Ideas in Action – January 2008 Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report PRI continues to impact public policy in California, the nation, and abroad. Click below to view PRI’s recent contributions.
CNBC: Interest Rate Forecasts with PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins
CNBC News, January 30, 2008 A look ahead of the Fed’s decision, with Robert McTeer, National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA); Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute and CNBC’s Sue Herera
Who Owns Your Health Care?
CATO Institute featured this clipping of John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, in their Cato Weekly Video. from the June 22, 2007 event “Who Owns Your Healthcare?”
Pell Grants for Kids a Good Idea
As someone who strongly believes that *ALL* parents (not just wealthy ones) should have true school choice in this country, I’m glad to see President Bush call for the creation of a “Pell Grants for Kids” program in his final State of the Union address. While the details of the ...
New PRI Report Exposes True Cost of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Health Care Proposal
Proposal costs 2 ½ times more than planned, 50,000 to 100,000 jobs lost annually Introducing the California “Sick Tax” Calculator San Francisco — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed $14 billion dollar health care plan would likely cost $36 billion in 2010 – 2.5 times more than budgeted – according to California ...
True Hollywood Scandals: The Courtroom Legacy of Anna Nicole Smith with Horace Cooper.
Anna Nicole Smith’s life was a tabloid’s dream. Even though she passed away almost one year ago, her saga lives on in the media through battles ranging from paternity disputes to prescription drug abuse to disputed legal fees. As the 9th Circuit gets ready to take up her case again, ...
