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The Credit Crunch is a Network Failure
Dr. John Rutledge Blog, September 30, 2008 My friend Sonia Arrison, the technology wizard at Pacific Research Institute, asked me to give her my current thinking about how to analyze the current credit crunch as a cascading network failure, a subject I wrote about in Chapters 6 and 7 of ...
Business & Economics
See-saw City on ‘green’ list; state ‘freedom’ up
The Oklahoman Editorial In the teeter-totter of city and state rankings, what goes up must see-saw something else down. Case in point: Rankings for personal freedom versus rankings for greenhood. Five of the 10 cities on sustainlane.com’s list of attractive cities are on Reason magazine’s 2008 list of unattractive cities. ...
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The Great Bank Robbery of 2008
The Great Bank Robbery of 2008 The Paulson bailout failed in the House. If it isn’t a death blow to the plan, it should be. This is not an economic plan: it is a heist. It will go down as The Great Bank Robbery of 2008. The economics behind it ...
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Alaska ranks near bottom of economic freedom index
FAIRBANKS — High levels of welfare spending per capita and a large number of people receiving help are keeping Alaska near the bottom of an index measuring economic freedom in each of the 50 states. The bottom isn’t a good place to be, especially as companies look for competitive, solid ...
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Conservatives Should Oppose Corporate Welfare
Although they are just playing the hand that Alan Greenspan dealt them, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson have been working overtime to discredit the capitalist economy. The $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, as well as other measures such as a ban on short-selling financial stocks, ...
Business & Economics
30 Issues: Internet and Broadcast Regulation
Frank Pasquale, professor of law at Seton Hall and Daniel Ballon, Policy Fellow in Technology at the Pacific Research Institute, take a look at the question of net neutrality. Listen to the Podcast
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Despite critics, consumers laud state’s trial lawyers
Lake Oswego elementary school teacher Kellie La Follette never imagined she would need to hire an attorney. But, after she and several of her colleagues received radiation burns from broken metal halide bulbs during an in-service training in November 2004, they got a crash course in how the state’s legal ...
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San Diego Union Tribune Radio Interview with Robert Murphy
Op-Ed Talk is hosted by Bernie Jones, editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Opinion pages. Each Thursday at 11:30 a.m., Bernie interview a contributor to the pages, focusing on topics of current interest. Robert Murphy, senior fellow in business and economic studies at PRI, discussed the Wall Street bailout and ...
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Northeast deemed most economically oppressed
The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California, has released the ‘U.S. Economic Freedom Index 2008 Report,’ a ranking of economic freedom in the 50 states. Published in association with Forbes, the index scored states based on 143 variables, including regulatory and fiscal obstacles imposed on businesses ...
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Wall Street plan won’t aid recovery
Last week the government took extraordinary measures to restore calm to the financial markets. Besides the takeover of insurer American International Group, the government banned short-selling of 799 financial stocks and floated a plan to buy up risky mortgage-backed assets. These actions, unfortunately, may prove incredibly costly to the taxpayer, ...
The Credit Crunch is a Network Failure
Dr. John Rutledge Blog, September 30, 2008 My friend Sonia Arrison, the technology wizard at Pacific Research Institute, asked me to give her my current thinking about how to analyze the current credit crunch as a cascading network failure, a subject I wrote about in Chapters 6 and 7 of ...
See-saw City on ‘green’ list; state ‘freedom’ up
The Oklahoman Editorial In the teeter-totter of city and state rankings, what goes up must see-saw something else down. Case in point: Rankings for personal freedom versus rankings for greenhood. Five of the 10 cities on sustainlane.com’s list of attractive cities are on Reason magazine’s 2008 list of unattractive cities. ...
The Great Bank Robbery of 2008
The Great Bank Robbery of 2008 The Paulson bailout failed in the House. If it isn’t a death blow to the plan, it should be. This is not an economic plan: it is a heist. It will go down as The Great Bank Robbery of 2008. The economics behind it ...
Alaska ranks near bottom of economic freedom index
FAIRBANKS — High levels of welfare spending per capita and a large number of people receiving help are keeping Alaska near the bottom of an index measuring economic freedom in each of the 50 states. The bottom isn’t a good place to be, especially as companies look for competitive, solid ...
Conservatives Should Oppose Corporate Welfare
Although they are just playing the hand that Alan Greenspan dealt them, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson have been working overtime to discredit the capitalist economy. The $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, as well as other measures such as a ban on short-selling financial stocks, ...
30 Issues: Internet and Broadcast Regulation
Frank Pasquale, professor of law at Seton Hall and Daniel Ballon, Policy Fellow in Technology at the Pacific Research Institute, take a look at the question of net neutrality. Listen to the Podcast
Despite critics, consumers laud state’s trial lawyers
Lake Oswego elementary school teacher Kellie La Follette never imagined she would need to hire an attorney. But, after she and several of her colleagues received radiation burns from broken metal halide bulbs during an in-service training in November 2004, they got a crash course in how the state’s legal ...
San Diego Union Tribune Radio Interview with Robert Murphy
Op-Ed Talk is hosted by Bernie Jones, editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Opinion pages. Each Thursday at 11:30 a.m., Bernie interview a contributor to the pages, focusing on topics of current interest. Robert Murphy, senior fellow in business and economic studies at PRI, discussed the Wall Street bailout and ...
Northeast deemed most economically oppressed
The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California, has released the ‘U.S. Economic Freedom Index 2008 Report,’ a ranking of economic freedom in the 50 states. Published in association with Forbes, the index scored states based on 143 variables, including regulatory and fiscal obstacles imposed on businesses ...
Wall Street plan won’t aid recovery
Last week the government took extraordinary measures to restore calm to the financial markets. Besides the takeover of insurer American International Group, the government banned short-selling of 799 financial stocks and floated a plan to buy up risky mortgage-backed assets. These actions, unfortunately, may prove incredibly costly to the taxpayer, ...
