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The Pacific Research Institute Introduces the California Enterprise Value Index

CEVI Peaked 10 Years Ago – On a Three-Year Downward Trend San Francisco, July 9, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the introduction of the California Enterprise Value Index, a measure of the enterprise value (EV) of publicly traded companies headquartered in California relative to the EV ...
Business & Economics

The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy

San Francisco, July 7, 2009 — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of a new report on Internet privacy and security. Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government ...
Health Care

Health-Care Facts and Myths Part II

Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care. This is the second segment of her interview with Brian Sullivan of Fox Business News.
Health Care

Brian Sullivan Takes on Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Over Health Care Bill

Guest host, Brian Sullivan, interviews Vermont’s Independent Senator, Bernie Sanders, regarding whether the Senate Democrats will make the most of their supermajority and push through universal health care. Mr. Sullivan shows a video clipping with Sally C. Pipes discussing her experience with Canada’s universal health care system.
Health Care

Health-Care Facts and Myths

Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care.
Business & Economics

California Could Add Nearly 180,000 New Jobs at No Cost to Taxpayers

San Francisco, July 6, 2009 – California could add some 180,000 new jobs at no cost to taxpayers if the federal estate tax were repealed, according to research by the former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The research was conducted for the nonprofit American Family Business ...
Commentary

Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients

Philippine Daily Mirror, July 2, 1009 Hoy en Delaware (Georgetown, DE) , July 21, 2009 Franklin Press (Franklin, NC), July 21, 2009 The Resident (Pawcatuck, CT), July 29, 2009 This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. For patients and families alike, a diagnosis is a terrifying ...
Business & Economics

California: The National Petri Dish

Supposedly, trends start in California and then spread to the rest of the country, a notion that seems to be confirmed by the latest economic news. In May, California’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent—the highest it has been since 1941. This morning we learn that unemployment for the entire country ...
Business & Economics

Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market

Encore Online (Wilmington, NC), June 29, 2009 While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation ...
California

The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease

How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
Business & Economics

The Pacific Research Institute Introduces the California Enterprise Value Index

CEVI Peaked 10 Years Ago – On a Three-Year Downward Trend San Francisco, July 9, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the introduction of the California Enterprise Value Index, a measure of the enterprise value (EV) of publicly traded companies headquartered in California relative to the EV ...
Business & Economics

The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy

San Francisco, July 7, 2009 — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of a new report on Internet privacy and security. Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government ...
Health Care

Health-Care Facts and Myths Part II

Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care. This is the second segment of her interview with Brian Sullivan of Fox Business News.
Health Care

Brian Sullivan Takes on Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Over Health Care Bill

Guest host, Brian Sullivan, interviews Vermont’s Independent Senator, Bernie Sanders, regarding whether the Senate Democrats will make the most of their supermajority and push through universal health care. Mr. Sullivan shows a video clipping with Sally C. Pipes discussing her experience with Canada’s universal health care system.
Health Care

Health-Care Facts and Myths

Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care.
Business & Economics

California Could Add Nearly 180,000 New Jobs at No Cost to Taxpayers

San Francisco, July 6, 2009 – California could add some 180,000 new jobs at no cost to taxpayers if the federal estate tax were repealed, according to research by the former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The research was conducted for the nonprofit American Family Business ...
Commentary

Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients

Philippine Daily Mirror, July 2, 1009 Hoy en Delaware (Georgetown, DE) , July 21, 2009 Franklin Press (Franklin, NC), July 21, 2009 The Resident (Pawcatuck, CT), July 29, 2009 This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. For patients and families alike, a diagnosis is a terrifying ...
Business & Economics

California: The National Petri Dish

Supposedly, trends start in California and then spread to the rest of the country, a notion that seems to be confirmed by the latest economic news. In May, California’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent—the highest it has been since 1941. This morning we learn that unemployment for the entire country ...
Business & Economics

Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market

Encore Online (Wilmington, NC), June 29, 2009 While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation ...
California

The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease

How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
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