Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Global Unease About Obama Administration Heard at Two Conferences
As luck would have it, just as the Obama Administration was upending America’s global relationships for the last ten days, I was in Europe and attended two conferences on international politics. Together these conferences gave a good cross section of opinion about Mr. Obama and the U.S. in policy centers ...
Business & Economics
The Best States For Business
The recession hit everywhere, but Virginia is booming compared with the rest of America. The carnage of the economic downturn is everywhere with bankruptcies, foreclosures and unemployment soaring nationwide. None of the 50 states are immune. Only two, Alaska and North Dakota, are expected to see employment gains this year. ...
Business & Economics
Ending estate tax will create and save jobs
Like many other small-business owners, my first office was the kitchen table. When we started the family business in 1979, we had a modest goal: to earn enough money to pay the bills and put our kids through college. Little did we know that RFI Enterprises, a security systems company, ...
Business & Economics
UC Giveaway Disrespects Students, Taxpayers
Last week University of California students protested a proposed 32 percent hike in fees, which follows a 9.3 percent increase approved in May. The hikes should call attention to a recent UC giveaway of $4 million, under pressure from Sacramento politicians, to a propaganda mill that should not be on ...
Business & Economics
What Is a Tax?
What is relevant in the broader context is that this president has revealed himself to be quite comfortable denying that which our lying eyes can see clearly. And so the implicit-but-heavy energy taxes to be imposed by a carbon-regulation regime would not be “taxes.” Nor would banking regulations ostensibly aimed ...
Business & Economics
Federal Medical Malpractice Law Would Hinder Reform
The nation’s doctors are rightly concerned about the need for medical malpractice reform, but their clamor this week for passage of a federal reform law raises troubling legal questions and likely would do little to stem malpractice case filings. There is no question malpractice reform is needed. The Pacific Research ...
Business & Economics
Greenhut leaving the O.C. Register
I know what every government worker in Orange County is doing right now, this evening of Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009: Getting plastered on expensive booze, paid by their massive tax-funded salaries. They’ll be so hung over tomorrow don’t even try to do work with them. They’re celebrating because the scourge ...
Business & Economics
I’m heading to Sacramento, but don’t celebrate yet.
The Orange County Register, September 19, 2009 Many readers, especially those who receive large public pensions, will no doubt be thrilled to hear the news. This is the penultimate column I’m writing for the Register as a staff member. I’m heading to the belly of the beast, Sacramento, to start ...
Commentary
The Weak Spots in the Baucus Bill
The Baucus bill is vulnerable in several immediately apparent ways: It would reduce Americans’ liberty by requiring them to buy health insurance and fining them if they don’t. It would ruin private insurance by requiring insurers to cover all comers at the same premium. In doing so, it would thereby ...
Business & Economics
Tort Reform in the States: Protecting Consumers and Enhancing Economic Growth
Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.), September 18, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Speaker(s): Panel Discussion (11:00 a.m.) The Honorable Bill Batchelder Minority Leader, Ohio House of Representatives Dr. Lawrence J. McQuillan Director, Business & Economic Studies, Pacific Research Institute Keynote Address (12:00 p.m.) The Honorable Haley Barbour Governor, State ...
Global Unease About Obama Administration Heard at Two Conferences
As luck would have it, just as the Obama Administration was upending America’s global relationships for the last ten days, I was in Europe and attended two conferences on international politics. Together these conferences gave a good cross section of opinion about Mr. Obama and the U.S. in policy centers ...
The Best States For Business
The recession hit everywhere, but Virginia is booming compared with the rest of America. The carnage of the economic downturn is everywhere with bankruptcies, foreclosures and unemployment soaring nationwide. None of the 50 states are immune. Only two, Alaska and North Dakota, are expected to see employment gains this year. ...
Ending estate tax will create and save jobs
Like many other small-business owners, my first office was the kitchen table. When we started the family business in 1979, we had a modest goal: to earn enough money to pay the bills and put our kids through college. Little did we know that RFI Enterprises, a security systems company, ...
UC Giveaway Disrespects Students, Taxpayers
Last week University of California students protested a proposed 32 percent hike in fees, which follows a 9.3 percent increase approved in May. The hikes should call attention to a recent UC giveaway of $4 million, under pressure from Sacramento politicians, to a propaganda mill that should not be on ...
What Is a Tax?
What is relevant in the broader context is that this president has revealed himself to be quite comfortable denying that which our lying eyes can see clearly. And so the implicit-but-heavy energy taxes to be imposed by a carbon-regulation regime would not be “taxes.” Nor would banking regulations ostensibly aimed ...
Federal Medical Malpractice Law Would Hinder Reform
The nation’s doctors are rightly concerned about the need for medical malpractice reform, but their clamor this week for passage of a federal reform law raises troubling legal questions and likely would do little to stem malpractice case filings. There is no question malpractice reform is needed. The Pacific Research ...
Greenhut leaving the O.C. Register
I know what every government worker in Orange County is doing right now, this evening of Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009: Getting plastered on expensive booze, paid by their massive tax-funded salaries. They’ll be so hung over tomorrow don’t even try to do work with them. They’re celebrating because the scourge ...
I’m heading to Sacramento, but don’t celebrate yet.
The Orange County Register, September 19, 2009 Many readers, especially those who receive large public pensions, will no doubt be thrilled to hear the news. This is the penultimate column I’m writing for the Register as a staff member. I’m heading to the belly of the beast, Sacramento, to start ...
The Weak Spots in the Baucus Bill
The Baucus bill is vulnerable in several immediately apparent ways: It would reduce Americans’ liberty by requiring them to buy health insurance and fining them if they don’t. It would ruin private insurance by requiring insurers to cover all comers at the same premium. In doing so, it would thereby ...
Tort Reform in the States: Protecting Consumers and Enhancing Economic Growth
Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.), September 18, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Speaker(s): Panel Discussion (11:00 a.m.) The Honorable Bill Batchelder Minority Leader, Ohio House of Representatives Dr. Lawrence J. McQuillan Director, Business & Economic Studies, Pacific Research Institute Keynote Address (12:00 p.m.) The Honorable Haley Barbour Governor, State ...
