Pacific Research Institute
Business & Economics
Bernanke on the Hot Seat
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on “Kudlow & Company” discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke’s rate cuts as a response to the subprime mortgage crisis.
California
San Francisco Surcharge Covers Health Care
There’s a new line item on many restaurant bills in San Francisco: the “surcharge,” ranging from a flat per-person fee to a percentage of the bill. Why? To cover the cost of universal health care for employees. Stacey Delo reports. John R. Graham appeared in this video on the Wall ...
Blackouts
Coal Power Opposition Raises Blackout Possibilities
The lights may soon go out in the Washington, DC metro area and other parts of the country due to environmental activist opposition to coal-fired power plants, energy analysts are warning. “Electric power has already become painfully expensive in Washington and its suburbs. Now, local utilities, say, it could become ...
Commentary
California’s Energy Policies: a Model for the Nation?
Key lawmakers are now promoting California’s energy and global warming policies as a model for the federal government and other States to follow. Thomas Tanton’s talk will review California’s policies and show that they have had significant costs as well as other detrimental effects and are likely to have even ...
Business & Economics
Tort report: Va. a ‘sucker,’ Md. a ‘sinner’
Voters in the Potomac region recently cast their ballots, but the presidential primary is not the only contest worthy of note. The race to create the most efficient state legal system reveals a few winners and many losers. A comparison of Virginia and Maryland makes that distinction clear, and the ...
Business & Economics
Impact – March 2008
PRI Ideas in Action – March 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 TV – Discussing the Fed
CNBC Kudlow and Company, March 28, 2008 Lee Hoskins, former Federal Reserve Bank president and PRI senior fellow participated in this panel discussion with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow.
Business & Economics
We aren’t the world
BLUE IN THE FACE we have preached ourselves over the years arguing that punitive damages are a multifaceted disgrace. Lo, now comes an ally: the world. Or at least most of it. Many European courts simply refuse to uphold punitive-damage judgments returned by U.S. juries against their nationals and companies, ...
Business & Economics
Pacific Research Institute Releases Study on Wireless “Net Neutrality”
San Francisco (March 26) – Today, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released its report Wireless with Strings Attached: Net Neutrality and the Grounding of Wireless Innovation. The report shows how “net neutrality” legislation harms the consumer, stifles innovation, and risks destroying a competitive ...
Business & Economics
Researcher Rebukes Wireless ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
The attempt to force network neutrality on wireless carriers will result in disaster and is based on faulty assumptions, including one that there ever was neutrality on the Internet, according to a newly released analysis from the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). In what is essentially an upbraiding of emerging FCC ...
Bernanke on the Hot Seat
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on “Kudlow & Company” discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke’s rate cuts as a response to the subprime mortgage crisis.
San Francisco Surcharge Covers Health Care
There’s a new line item on many restaurant bills in San Francisco: the “surcharge,” ranging from a flat per-person fee to a percentage of the bill. Why? To cover the cost of universal health care for employees. Stacey Delo reports. John R. Graham appeared in this video on the Wall ...
Coal Power Opposition Raises Blackout Possibilities
The lights may soon go out in the Washington, DC metro area and other parts of the country due to environmental activist opposition to coal-fired power plants, energy analysts are warning. “Electric power has already become painfully expensive in Washington and its suburbs. Now, local utilities, say, it could become ...
California’s Energy Policies: a Model for the Nation?
Key lawmakers are now promoting California’s energy and global warming policies as a model for the federal government and other States to follow. Thomas Tanton’s talk will review California’s policies and show that they have had significant costs as well as other detrimental effects and are likely to have even ...
Tort report: Va. a ‘sucker,’ Md. a ‘sinner’
Voters in the Potomac region recently cast their ballots, but the presidential primary is not the only contest worthy of note. The race to create the most efficient state legal system reveals a few winners and many losers. A comparison of Virginia and Maryland makes that distinction clear, and the ...
Impact – March 2008
PRI Ideas in Action – March 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 TV – Discussing the Fed
CNBC Kudlow and Company, March 28, 2008 Lee Hoskins, former Federal Reserve Bank president and PRI senior fellow participated in this panel discussion with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow.
We aren’t the world
BLUE IN THE FACE we have preached ourselves over the years arguing that punitive damages are a multifaceted disgrace. Lo, now comes an ally: the world. Or at least most of it. Many European courts simply refuse to uphold punitive-damage judgments returned by U.S. juries against their nationals and companies, ...
Pacific Research Institute Releases Study on Wireless “Net Neutrality”
San Francisco (March 26) – Today, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released its report Wireless with Strings Attached: Net Neutrality and the Grounding of Wireless Innovation. The report shows how “net neutrality” legislation harms the consumer, stifles innovation, and risks destroying a competitive ...
Researcher Rebukes Wireless ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
The attempt to force network neutrality on wireless carriers will result in disaster and is based on faulty assumptions, including one that there ever was neutrality on the Internet, according to a newly released analysis from the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). In what is essentially an upbraiding of emerging FCC ...
