Economy
Business & Economics
CNBC News: Fed Backs U.S. Economy
Insight on the Federal Reserve’s ‘build-up the balance sheet’ program, with Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; and CNBC’s Rick Santelli, Steve Liesman & Larry Kudlow.
Business & Economics
Will Electric Cars Jolt California’s Economy?
With the support of Governor Schwarzenegger, the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose last week announced a $1-billion joint plan to make the Bay Area “the electric-vehicle capital of the world.” The announcement follows President-elect Obama’s pledge to reinvigorate the nation’s economy with millions of “green collar” jobs. ...
Business & Economics
Use Special Session to Liberate California Economy
California Republic, November 7, 2008 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA), November 13, 2008 SACRAMENTO – Today, one day after a national election, a special California legislative session, called for by Governor Schwarzenegger, begins to deal with this fiscal year’s budget deficit, as high as $10 billion by some estimates. ...
Business & Economics
Commentary: Who do you think will be better for the economy: John McCain or Barak Obama?
Cartoonist Scott Adams, he of “Dilbert” fame, was plagued by the same question so, he reports, he commissioned a survey of more than 500 economists, “to find out which candidates for President of the United States would be best for the economy long term,” a release put out by United ...
Business & Economics
Tort reform would spark lagging local economy
The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen more than 1,500 points since last year. Bear Stearns has gone belly up. Every week talking heads point to a different blue-chip company supposedly teetering on the brink of financial ruin. It seems as if things couldn’t get worse for Wall Street and ...
Business & Economics
California lawmakers must help economy with tort reform
The United States saw 324,000 jobs disappear in the first five months of the year – more evidence of a shaky economy. The news will surely prompt legislation intended to bolster jobs with “temporary” government programs. But the best jobs program for California is not more spending we can’t afford. ...
Business & Economics
Report shows lawsuit reforms boost local economy
More than a billion dollars have been added to the local economy and more than 8,000 jobs have been created in Southeast Texas thanks to lawsuit reforms, a national economist reported Monday. “Lawsuit reform has led to improvements in the Texas business climate that have generated hundreds of thousands of ...
Agriculture
Jump-Starting The Economy
If the presidential candidates are serious about bolstering the economy, they should address one of the major drags on it–widespread abuse of the tort system. The role of the tort system in compensating victims for their injuries is certainly valuable. But meritless plaintiffs and their opportunistic personal-injury attorneys clog the ...
Business & Economics
State’s economy at year’s beginning
State lawmakers convening on Monday in Olympia will not have to rely on staff reports to tell them how bad the economy is, the evidence is all around them. A few reports they would be wise to read, however, are four released last year that examine the underbelly of the ...
CNBC News: Fed Backs U.S. Economy
Insight on the Federal Reserve’s ‘build-up the balance sheet’ program, with Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; and CNBC’s Rick Santelli, Steve Liesman & Larry Kudlow.
Will Electric Cars Jolt California’s Economy?
With the support of Governor Schwarzenegger, the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose last week announced a $1-billion joint plan to make the Bay Area “the electric-vehicle capital of the world.” The announcement follows President-elect Obama’s pledge to reinvigorate the nation’s economy with millions of “green collar” jobs. ...
Use Special Session to Liberate California Economy
California Republic, November 7, 2008 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA), November 13, 2008 SACRAMENTO – Today, one day after a national election, a special California legislative session, called for by Governor Schwarzenegger, begins to deal with this fiscal year’s budget deficit, as high as $10 billion by some estimates. ...
Commentary: Who do you think will be better for the economy: John McCain or Barak Obama?
Cartoonist Scott Adams, he of “Dilbert” fame, was plagued by the same question so, he reports, he commissioned a survey of more than 500 economists, “to find out which candidates for President of the United States would be best for the economy long term,” a release put out by United ...
Tort reform would spark lagging local economy
The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen more than 1,500 points since last year. Bear Stearns has gone belly up. Every week talking heads point to a different blue-chip company supposedly teetering on the brink of financial ruin. It seems as if things couldn’t get worse for Wall Street and ...
California lawmakers must help economy with tort reform
The United States saw 324,000 jobs disappear in the first five months of the year – more evidence of a shaky economy. The news will surely prompt legislation intended to bolster jobs with “temporary” government programs. But the best jobs program for California is not more spending we can’t afford. ...
Report shows lawsuit reforms boost local economy
More than a billion dollars have been added to the local economy and more than 8,000 jobs have been created in Southeast Texas thanks to lawsuit reforms, a national economist reported Monday. “Lawsuit reform has led to improvements in the Texas business climate that have generated hundreds of thousands of ...
Jump-Starting The Economy
If the presidential candidates are serious about bolstering the economy, they should address one of the major drags on it–widespread abuse of the tort system. The role of the tort system in compensating victims for their injuries is certainly valuable. But meritless plaintiffs and their opportunistic personal-injury attorneys clog the ...
State’s economy at year’s beginning
State lawmakers convening on Monday in Olympia will not have to rely on staff reports to tell them how bad the economy is, the evidence is all around them. A few reports they would be wise to read, however, are four released last year that examine the underbelly of the ...
