Business & Economics
Business & Economics
President plays high-stakes poker with taxpayers’ money
Like a young, aggressive poker player, President Obama seems to have pushed in all his chips on his budget. The size of the gamble is nearly unprecedented because the pot holds the nation’s economic future for at least a generation. There is agreement across the political spectrum that the president’s ...
Business & Economics
When Economic Stimulus Does Not Stimulate
A majority of Americans now give President Obama’s handling of the economy a negative rating and many economists and city officials are concerned that Obama’s gargantuan stimulus effort has not given the expected quick boost to the economy. Some argue this is because funds have been slow in coming due ...
Business & Economics
Governor Schwarzenegger Takes a Stand for Tech
Last week Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed a budget measure that would have cut off the livelihood of thousands of California’s small Internet businesses. As the state faces a $26 billion budget deficit and record high unemployment, Schwarzenegger declared that “we should be doing everything we can to keep jobs and create ...
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 ...
Business & Economics
Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web
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 regulated privacy policy on emerging online businesses. He also provides effective strategies for empowering consumers while promoting choice and competition. Dr. Ballon writes, “The ...
Business & Economics
Obama’s Stimulus is Proving as Disastrous as FDR’s New Deal
Talking about his first few months in office, President Obama said this at a fundraiser in Los Angeles: We started off in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And so what we decided to do was pass the largest economic recovery package in the history ...
Business & Economics
The Economics of Climate Change
During the last ten years, one of the biggest drivers of public opinion and policy has been concern over global warming or climate change. The economics of climate change uses economic theory and computer models to study the interactions among government policies, the climate system, and the economy. In this ...
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 ...
Business & Economics
Christina Romer’s Faulty Depression History
Romer on the “Mistakes of 1937” Romer worries that President Obama will cave in to political pressures, and cut stimulus efforts before the economy has sufficiently healed. She alleges that this was the same mistake Roosevelt made after his initial (apparent) success in battling the Depression: [T]he recovery in the ...
Business & Economics
Digital Dialogues
Sonia Arrison covers such topics as new technologies, innovation, longevity science, and politics on here website “Digital Dialogues.” Sonia hopes that you enjoy the discussion and encourages you to join her mailing list in order to keep up with the latest articles and news. Click here for more.
President plays high-stakes poker with taxpayers’ money
Like a young, aggressive poker player, President Obama seems to have pushed in all his chips on his budget. The size of the gamble is nearly unprecedented because the pot holds the nation’s economic future for at least a generation. There is agreement across the political spectrum that the president’s ...
When Economic Stimulus Does Not Stimulate
A majority of Americans now give President Obama’s handling of the economy a negative rating and many economists and city officials are concerned that Obama’s gargantuan stimulus effort has not given the expected quick boost to the economy. Some argue this is because funds have been slow in coming due ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Takes a Stand for Tech
Last week Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed a budget measure that would have cut off the livelihood of thousands of California’s small Internet businesses. As the state faces a $26 billion budget deficit and record high unemployment, Schwarzenegger declared that “we should be doing everything we can to keep jobs and create ...
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 ...
Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web
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 regulated privacy policy on emerging online businesses. He also provides effective strategies for empowering consumers while promoting choice and competition. Dr. Ballon writes, “The ...
Obama’s Stimulus is Proving as Disastrous as FDR’s New Deal
Talking about his first few months in office, President Obama said this at a fundraiser in Los Angeles: We started off in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And so what we decided to do was pass the largest economic recovery package in the history ...
The Economics of Climate Change
During the last ten years, one of the biggest drivers of public opinion and policy has been concern over global warming or climate change. The economics of climate change uses economic theory and computer models to study the interactions among government policies, the climate system, and the economy. In this ...
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 ...
Christina Romer’s Faulty Depression History
Romer on the “Mistakes of 1937” Romer worries that President Obama will cave in to political pressures, and cut stimulus efforts before the economy has sufficiently healed. She alleges that this was the same mistake Roosevelt made after his initial (apparent) success in battling the Depression: [T]he recovery in the ...
Digital Dialogues
Sonia Arrison covers such topics as new technologies, innovation, longevity science, and politics on here website “Digital Dialogues.” Sonia hopes that you enjoy the discussion and encourages you to join her mailing list in order to keep up with the latest articles and news. Click here for more.
