Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Haley Barbour on the Mississippi tort bar’s excesses
Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi spoke at the Heritage Foundation today on the state’s successes with tort reform, an event hosted by former Attorney General Ed Meese. During the Q&A period, Meese asked the governor about the effects of the 2004 tort reforms on the state’s trial bar. In response, ...
Commentary
Doctors Seven Times More Satisfied with Payments from Private Insurance as Medicare
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, the survey’s results were promoted with a different headline than you see above. “Poll finds most doctors support public option,” said National Public Radio (NPR); “73% of doctors favor public option,” said Salon’s Steve Klingman. These headlines were encouraged by the RWJ ...
Commentary
Jesse Jackson on Health Reform!
According to Mr. Jackson, Medicare, the U.S. government’s single-payer system for seniors is the most popular health plan in the U.S. Well, if I was able to get taxpayers to pay 53% of my medical claims, I suppose I’d be satisfied too. Even so, 90% of Medicare beneficiaries have some ...
Business & Economics
Poizner says he’ll increase state revenue by cutting California’s tax rates
Despite projections that the next governor will inherit multibillion-dollar deficits, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner on Tuesday promised to slash taxes on personal income, corporations and sales. Poizner said that as part of his “Jobs Plan,” he would reduce those rates by one-tenth, as well as cut capital gains taxes ...
Business & Economics
Experts weigh in on Obama economic speech
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — On the anniversary of a financial meltdown that brought Wall Street to its knees, President Barack Obama unveiled a plan he says will keep it from happening again. President Obama began by praising his economic team and his $787 billion stimulus package. “While full recovery of ...
Commentary
Cochrane Threatens Austrians More Than Krugman Ever Did
This is a very short-sighted view. Just because someone gets in a fight with someone who we can’t stand–and I’ve criticized Krugman enough to have credibility on that score–doesn’t mean we should endorse any old arguments. There was quite a bit in Cochrane’s response that should alarm an Austrian economist, ...
Business & Economics
Medical-Malpractice Reform: Will Republicans Take the Bait?
Medical-malpractice reform has long been on the Republicans’ health-reform checklist (most of which seems to be writtten in invisible ink). Representative Gingrey of Georgia passed a bill through the House in 2005, and has re-introduced it. The key ingredient in the legislation is a cap on punitive, non-economic damages of ...
Business & Economics
Tackling Geithner’s Town Hall
CNBC News Report with Larry Kudlow, September 10, 2009 YouTube, September 10, 2009 Analysis on what the Treasury Secretary had to say about the financial crisis, with Robert Murphy, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy; Richard Clarida, Pimco; Andrew Ross Sorkin, NY Times and Keith Boykin, The Daily Voice.
Business & Economics
Without legal reforms, the health care system will remain broken
There’s an old joke about the boy who goes to the doctor and uses his index finger to point all over his body, explaining, “It hurts here, here, here and here.” The doctor sighs and says, “Son, your finger is broken.” This poor kid was looking for his ailment in ...
Agriculture
Labor Day fix: cut taxes, spending, regulation
For Californians, this Labor Day may not be a cause for celebration. The federal government recently reported that the state’s unemployment rate reached 11.9 percent in July, its highest level in more than four decades. Many have blamed the ailing national economy for these dismal jobs numbers. Although there is ...
Haley Barbour on the Mississippi tort bar’s excesses
Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi spoke at the Heritage Foundation today on the state’s successes with tort reform, an event hosted by former Attorney General Ed Meese. During the Q&A period, Meese asked the governor about the effects of the 2004 tort reforms on the state’s trial bar. In response, ...
Doctors Seven Times More Satisfied with Payments from Private Insurance as Medicare
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, the survey’s results were promoted with a different headline than you see above. “Poll finds most doctors support public option,” said National Public Radio (NPR); “73% of doctors favor public option,” said Salon’s Steve Klingman. These headlines were encouraged by the RWJ ...
Jesse Jackson on Health Reform!
According to Mr. Jackson, Medicare, the U.S. government’s single-payer system for seniors is the most popular health plan in the U.S. Well, if I was able to get taxpayers to pay 53% of my medical claims, I suppose I’d be satisfied too. Even so, 90% of Medicare beneficiaries have some ...
Poizner says he’ll increase state revenue by cutting California’s tax rates
Despite projections that the next governor will inherit multibillion-dollar deficits, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner on Tuesday promised to slash taxes on personal income, corporations and sales. Poizner said that as part of his “Jobs Plan,” he would reduce those rates by one-tenth, as well as cut capital gains taxes ...
Experts weigh in on Obama economic speech
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — On the anniversary of a financial meltdown that brought Wall Street to its knees, President Barack Obama unveiled a plan he says will keep it from happening again. President Obama began by praising his economic team and his $787 billion stimulus package. “While full recovery of ...
Cochrane Threatens Austrians More Than Krugman Ever Did
This is a very short-sighted view. Just because someone gets in a fight with someone who we can’t stand–and I’ve criticized Krugman enough to have credibility on that score–doesn’t mean we should endorse any old arguments. There was quite a bit in Cochrane’s response that should alarm an Austrian economist, ...
Medical-Malpractice Reform: Will Republicans Take the Bait?
Medical-malpractice reform has long been on the Republicans’ health-reform checklist (most of which seems to be writtten in invisible ink). Representative Gingrey of Georgia passed a bill through the House in 2005, and has re-introduced it. The key ingredient in the legislation is a cap on punitive, non-economic damages of ...
Tackling Geithner’s Town Hall
CNBC News Report with Larry Kudlow, September 10, 2009 YouTube, September 10, 2009 Analysis on what the Treasury Secretary had to say about the financial crisis, with Robert Murphy, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy; Richard Clarida, Pimco; Andrew Ross Sorkin, NY Times and Keith Boykin, The Daily Voice.
Without legal reforms, the health care system will remain broken
There’s an old joke about the boy who goes to the doctor and uses his index finger to point all over his body, explaining, “It hurts here, here, here and here.” The doctor sighs and says, “Son, your finger is broken.” This poor kid was looking for his ailment in ...
Labor Day fix: cut taxes, spending, regulation
For Californians, this Labor Day may not be a cause for celebration. The federal government recently reported that the state’s unemployment rate reached 11.9 percent in July, its highest level in more than four decades. Many have blamed the ailing national economy for these dismal jobs numbers. Although there is ...
