Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Read Wealth Professional Story on Wayne Winegarden ESG Study
Putting a question mark on ESG fund performance by Leo Almazora An increasing number of stakeholders are buying into sustainable investments, figuratively and literally. Aside from fund providers’ growing willingness to offer values-based investment products, there’s a rising clamour from investors who want their money placed in companies with strong ESG ...
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Addressing Low Home Ownership Rates Key to Eliminating Inequality, Future Growth
There have decades of bipartisan rhetoric about the virtues of home ownership, with politicians competing with one another to see who can propose the worst ideas for responsible homeownership. Some policies, like preferential tax treatment and credit-enhancements offered through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) are distortionary but benign in their ...
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden Discusses New Normal Study on Sirius XM POTUS Morning Briefing
Listen to PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden discuss federal spending and the “15 Percent Solution” level of federal government to optimize economic growth on the “POTUS Morning Briefing” with Tim Farley on Sirius POTUS Channel 124. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/05-16-19-Wayne-Winegarden-with-Tim-Farley-self-contained.mp3
Business & Economics
New Study Finds ESG Funds Underperform Broader Investment Funds Over Long-Term
ESG funds that champion environmental and social causes have historically underperformed funds investing in the broader market over the long-term, so finds a new study released today by California-based, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. “In recent years, ESG funds have been presented to investors as socially responsible as ...
Business & Economics
All Things Tech with Bartlett Cleland
In this podcast, Bartlett Cleland, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Tech and Innovation, discusses the state of tech policy including trade negotiations with China on intellectual property, privacy laws, the debate over the possible break-up of social media companies, internet taxation, and regulating the gig economy and the impact on new ...
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Workers Of California Unite . . . Against Minimum Wage Hikes
They were warned. They wouldn’t listen. But they should have. A university study confirms what so many of us already knew — and what several other studies have corroborated: Minimum wage hikes kill jobs. Scholars at the University of California, Riverside, looked at the labor market and found that job ...
Business & Economics
Listen to Wayne Winegarden Discuss “15 Percent Solution” with Lars Larson
Listen to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI Senior Fellow in Business and Economics, discuss his “The 15 Percent Solution” study – which outlines the optimal government economic and spending policies to maximize economic growth – on The Lars Larson Show. The interview begins at the 55:00 mark.
Commentary
So-called ‘Medicare for All’ gets its 15 minutes of infamy
Last week, the House Rules Committee held a landmark hearing on “Medicare for all.” The idea’s advocates championed the hearing as a major step towards providing Americans universal, government-run healthcare. A day later, the Congressional Budget Office delivered an analysis that detailed just how destructive single-payer healthcare would be. The ...
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What We’re Watching – How Entrepreneurship Can Alleviate Poverty in Africa
Ben Smithwick – How Entrepreneurship Can Alleviate Poverty in Africa Magatte Wade is one of the most prominent female African entrepreneurs. In this TED Talk, Wade discusses the challenges of doing business in her native Senegal and shares her vision for how entrepreneurship can help alleviate poverty in Africa. Tim ...
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Helping More Americans Climb the Economic Ladder by Encouraging More Savings
A central theme of my previous columns has been the importance and primacy of the individual. Economic policymakers cling to their blackboard models but forget that even for unambiguously “net-positive” interventions, there are millions of people being actively punished by their supposedly representative government. Government does not legislate prosperity. Achieving ...
Read Wealth Professional Story on Wayne Winegarden ESG Study
Putting a question mark on ESG fund performance by Leo Almazora An increasing number of stakeholders are buying into sustainable investments, figuratively and literally. Aside from fund providers’ growing willingness to offer values-based investment products, there’s a rising clamour from investors who want their money placed in companies with strong ESG ...
Addressing Low Home Ownership Rates Key to Eliminating Inequality, Future Growth
There have decades of bipartisan rhetoric about the virtues of home ownership, with politicians competing with one another to see who can propose the worst ideas for responsible homeownership. Some policies, like preferential tax treatment and credit-enhancements offered through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) are distortionary but benign in their ...
Wayne Winegarden Discusses New Normal Study on Sirius XM POTUS Morning Briefing
Listen to PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden discuss federal spending and the “15 Percent Solution” level of federal government to optimize economic growth on the “POTUS Morning Briefing” with Tim Farley on Sirius POTUS Channel 124. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/05-16-19-Wayne-Winegarden-with-Tim-Farley-self-contained.mp3
New Study Finds ESG Funds Underperform Broader Investment Funds Over Long-Term
ESG funds that champion environmental and social causes have historically underperformed funds investing in the broader market over the long-term, so finds a new study released today by California-based, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. “In recent years, ESG funds have been presented to investors as socially responsible as ...
All Things Tech with Bartlett Cleland
In this podcast, Bartlett Cleland, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Tech and Innovation, discusses the state of tech policy including trade negotiations with China on intellectual property, privacy laws, the debate over the possible break-up of social media companies, internet taxation, and regulating the gig economy and the impact on new ...
Workers Of California Unite . . . Against Minimum Wage Hikes
They were warned. They wouldn’t listen. But they should have. A university study confirms what so many of us already knew — and what several other studies have corroborated: Minimum wage hikes kill jobs. Scholars at the University of California, Riverside, looked at the labor market and found that job ...
Listen to Wayne Winegarden Discuss “15 Percent Solution” with Lars Larson
Listen to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI Senior Fellow in Business and Economics, discuss his “The 15 Percent Solution” study – which outlines the optimal government economic and spending policies to maximize economic growth – on The Lars Larson Show. The interview begins at the 55:00 mark.
So-called ‘Medicare for All’ gets its 15 minutes of infamy
Last week, the House Rules Committee held a landmark hearing on “Medicare for all.” The idea’s advocates championed the hearing as a major step towards providing Americans universal, government-run healthcare. A day later, the Congressional Budget Office delivered an analysis that detailed just how destructive single-payer healthcare would be. The ...
What We’re Watching – How Entrepreneurship Can Alleviate Poverty in Africa
Ben Smithwick – How Entrepreneurship Can Alleviate Poverty in Africa Magatte Wade is one of the most prominent female African entrepreneurs. In this TED Talk, Wade discusses the challenges of doing business in her native Senegal and shares her vision for how entrepreneurship can help alleviate poverty in Africa. Tim ...
Helping More Americans Climb the Economic Ladder by Encouraging More Savings
A central theme of my previous columns has been the importance and primacy of the individual. Economic policymakers cling to their blackboard models but forget that even for unambiguously “net-positive” interventions, there are millions of people being actively punished by their supposedly representative government. Government does not legislate prosperity. Achieving ...
