Commentary
Commentary
Nuclear Renaissance?
Schwarzenegger ‘open minded about nuclear power’ Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that nuclear power has “a great future” and that it is time to “relook at that issue again rather than just looking the other way and living in denial.” The governor made these comments March 14 in Santa Barbara, at ...
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 ...
Commentary
Los Angeles Times Health Care Whiplash!
Reading the Los Angeles Times, you might think there are two different Los Angeles, in two parallel universes. On the one hand, Karl Mannheim and Jamie Court criticize Hillary Clinton’s and Barrack Obama’s proposals for mandatory, private, health insurance by correctly asserting that that the Constitution does not give lawmakers ...
Business & Economics
Trial Lawyers Say Recent Study Proves Tort Reform Doesn’t Work
A new study on tort reform by a business-backed institute “proves tort reform does not work,” according to the association for the nation’s trial lawyers. American Association for Justice CEO Jon Haber, representing trial lawyers, said the state rankings recently released by Pacific Research Institute (PRI) show there is no ...
California
A Strange Way to Help Patients: California Nurses Association Strikes Again!
I suppose if I were a patient at one of Sutter Health’s ten hospitals in Northern California, now at the mid-point of a ten-day long nursing strike, I might find some cold comfort in the California Nurses Association’s claim that this walk-out by 4,000 RNs is a “dramatic stand for ...
Business & Economics
Tech Market of the Future: The Brain
The Alzheimer’s Association recently reported that one out of eight baby boomers is expected to get Alzheimer’s disease, creating a total of 10 million victims. This staggering prediction underscores the need for brain health and augmentation, a new market that tech players are fortunately beginning to enter. Just as it ...
Business & Economics
State legislators: There’s gold in that ‘net
California’s lawmakers seek to derail one of the state’s thriving industries: the technology sector. This bipartisan agenda targets e-commerce, arming bureaucrats with vast new authority to monitor, regulate and tax the Internet. A recent survey of the Silicon Valley’s economy reveals that policy makers should study and replicate this unique ...
Business & Economics
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic”
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic” PHYSICAL GOLD PRICES leapt more than 3% at the start of world trade on Monday – and the US Dollar and Asian stock markets sank – on news that the Federal Reserve will today start ...
Business & Economics
Memo To The Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts
The markets rallied last Tuesday in response to the Fed’s growing assistance to holders of mortgage-backed securities. Yet many onlookers are convinced that an aggressive cut in the federal funds rate at the upcoming March 18 meeting is still necessary to avoid a painful recession. In our view, further loosening ...
Business & Economics
Report compares state tort environments.
A report released by the not-for-profit Pacific Research Institute ranks the best and worst state tort systems in the United States. “U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report” valuated the tort laws of each state, in addition to taking into consideration tort costs and litigation risks. North Dakota was found to ...
Nuclear Renaissance?
Schwarzenegger ‘open minded about nuclear power’ Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that nuclear power has “a great future” and that it is time to “relook at that issue again rather than just looking the other way and living in denial.” The governor made these comments March 14 in Santa Barbara, at ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Times Health Care Whiplash!
Reading the Los Angeles Times, you might think there are two different Los Angeles, in two parallel universes. On the one hand, Karl Mannheim and Jamie Court criticize Hillary Clinton’s and Barrack Obama’s proposals for mandatory, private, health insurance by correctly asserting that that the Constitution does not give lawmakers ...
Trial Lawyers Say Recent Study Proves Tort Reform Doesn’t Work
A new study on tort reform by a business-backed institute “proves tort reform does not work,” according to the association for the nation’s trial lawyers. American Association for Justice CEO Jon Haber, representing trial lawyers, said the state rankings recently released by Pacific Research Institute (PRI) show there is no ...
A Strange Way to Help Patients: California Nurses Association Strikes Again!
I suppose if I were a patient at one of Sutter Health’s ten hospitals in Northern California, now at the mid-point of a ten-day long nursing strike, I might find some cold comfort in the California Nurses Association’s claim that this walk-out by 4,000 RNs is a “dramatic stand for ...
Tech Market of the Future: The Brain
The Alzheimer’s Association recently reported that one out of eight baby boomers is expected to get Alzheimer’s disease, creating a total of 10 million victims. This staggering prediction underscores the need for brain health and augmentation, a new market that tech players are fortunately beginning to enter. Just as it ...
State legislators: There’s gold in that ‘net
California’s lawmakers seek to derail one of the state’s thriving industries: the technology sector. This bipartisan agenda targets e-commerce, arming bureaucrats with vast new authority to monitor, regulate and tax the Internet. A recent survey of the Silicon Valley’s economy reveals that policy makers should study and replicate this unique ...
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic”
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic” PHYSICAL GOLD PRICES leapt more than 3% at the start of world trade on Monday – and the US Dollar and Asian stock markets sank – on news that the Federal Reserve will today start ...
Memo To The Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts
The markets rallied last Tuesday in response to the Fed’s growing assistance to holders of mortgage-backed securities. Yet many onlookers are convinced that an aggressive cut in the federal funds rate at the upcoming March 18 meeting is still necessary to avoid a painful recession. In our view, further loosening ...
Report compares state tort environments.
A report released by the not-for-profit Pacific Research Institute ranks the best and worst state tort systems in the United States. “U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report” valuated the tort laws of each state, in addition to taking into consideration tort costs and litigation risks. North Dakota was found to ...
