Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Comcast VoIP Actions Draw New FCC Scrutiny
Info Tech & Telecom News (Heartland Institute), April 1, 2009 The Federal Communications Commission, which has sanctioned Comcast for impeding peer-to-peer traffic on its servers, has sent a letter to the cable and Internet service company demanding an explanation why it appears to favor its own digital telephone services over ...
Business & Economics
National Safety Council Seeks Ban on Calling While Driving
Info Tech & Telecom News (Heartland Institute), April 1, 2009 The National Safety Council is calling for a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving, claiming 6 percent of all automobile crashes are due to cell phone use, costing Americans $43 billion a year. According to the NSC’s Web ...
Business & Economics
Blame it on the followers of Keynes
As the United States, Canada and other countries unleash trillions of dollars of economic stimulus packages on the world’s teetering financial system, it may be helpful to recall that the last time governments tried to “fix” the economy with mountains of borrowed money, it ended up making the problem worse. ...
Business & Economics
Liability system is unreliable
Washington Times, March 26, 2009 It is encouraging that President Barack Obama and congressional leaders seem serious about reforming our destructive medical-malpractice liability system (“Medical malpractice reform eyed in health care debate,” March 17). Such action would do wonders to lower health care costs and improve patient access to care. ...
Commentary
Obama’s Education “Reforms”
In his first big education speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama tried to show that he is a reformer, and not a shill for the education special interests that dominate the Democratic Party. While he had a few worthwhile ideas, others sounded good until one turned to the details. ...
Business & Economics
Why Legislators Target California’s High-Tech Innovators
The California Assembly will soon consider proposals to “protect” residents from two of Silicon Valley’s most successful innovators. Google and Facebook help form the backbone of the state’s high-tech economy, but some lawmakers see them as a threat to privacy and security. AB 255 would censor Google’s popular online mapping ...
Business & Economics
Smart Policies for a Smarter Grid
President Obama’s vision for economic recovery centers on creating “green collar” jobs through substantial investment in clean technologies. Upon signing his “green stimulus” bill in February, Obama touted a $4.5- billion provision to “create a newer, smarter electric grid that will allow for broader use of alternative energy.”1 Despite the ...
Business & Economics
CNBC – Inside the Bank Rescue Plan, Pt. 2
Insight the bank rescue plan, with Bill Seidman, fmr. FDIC chairman; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; Vincent Reinhart, fmr. Fed Monetary director; Bill Isaac, fmr. FDIC chairman; and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow.
Climate Change
Free Market Energy Experts Doubt Effectiveness of Obama’s Green Jobs Policies
CNSNews.com, March 24, 2009 Lux Libertas, March 24, 2009 Green Being, March 24, 2009 (CNSNews.com) – While President Barack Obama touted a greener future for America on Monday, free-market economists expressed skepticism about the prospects of green jobs and how effective government spending will be for long-term energy policy. The ...
Business & Economics
Putting Women’s History Month to Good Use
It’s Women’s History Month, so let’s take another look at the greatest woman of our time. We recently considered “There is No Alternative,” a book about Margaret Thatcher by Claire Berlinski, who did not know her. In the interest of gender fairness, we turn to Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of ...
Comcast VoIP Actions Draw New FCC Scrutiny
Info Tech & Telecom News (Heartland Institute), April 1, 2009 The Federal Communications Commission, which has sanctioned Comcast for impeding peer-to-peer traffic on its servers, has sent a letter to the cable and Internet service company demanding an explanation why it appears to favor its own digital telephone services over ...
National Safety Council Seeks Ban on Calling While Driving
Info Tech & Telecom News (Heartland Institute), April 1, 2009 The National Safety Council is calling for a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving, claiming 6 percent of all automobile crashes are due to cell phone use, costing Americans $43 billion a year. According to the NSC’s Web ...
Blame it on the followers of Keynes
As the United States, Canada and other countries unleash trillions of dollars of economic stimulus packages on the world’s teetering financial system, it may be helpful to recall that the last time governments tried to “fix” the economy with mountains of borrowed money, it ended up making the problem worse. ...
Liability system is unreliable
Washington Times, March 26, 2009 It is encouraging that President Barack Obama and congressional leaders seem serious about reforming our destructive medical-malpractice liability system (“Medical malpractice reform eyed in health care debate,” March 17). Such action would do wonders to lower health care costs and improve patient access to care. ...
Obama’s Education “Reforms”
In his first big education speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama tried to show that he is a reformer, and not a shill for the education special interests that dominate the Democratic Party. While he had a few worthwhile ideas, others sounded good until one turned to the details. ...
Why Legislators Target California’s High-Tech Innovators
The California Assembly will soon consider proposals to “protect” residents from two of Silicon Valley’s most successful innovators. Google and Facebook help form the backbone of the state’s high-tech economy, but some lawmakers see them as a threat to privacy and security. AB 255 would censor Google’s popular online mapping ...
Smart Policies for a Smarter Grid
President Obama’s vision for economic recovery centers on creating “green collar” jobs through substantial investment in clean technologies. Upon signing his “green stimulus” bill in February, Obama touted a $4.5- billion provision to “create a newer, smarter electric grid that will allow for broader use of alternative energy.”1 Despite the ...
CNBC – Inside the Bank Rescue Plan, Pt. 2
Insight the bank rescue plan, with Bill Seidman, fmr. FDIC chairman; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; Vincent Reinhart, fmr. Fed Monetary director; Bill Isaac, fmr. FDIC chairman; and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow.
Free Market Energy Experts Doubt Effectiveness of Obama’s Green Jobs Policies
CNSNews.com, March 24, 2009 Lux Libertas, March 24, 2009 Green Being, March 24, 2009 (CNSNews.com) – While President Barack Obama touted a greener future for America on Monday, free-market economists expressed skepticism about the prospects of green jobs and how effective government spending will be for long-term energy policy. The ...
Putting Women’s History Month to Good Use
It’s Women’s History Month, so let’s take another look at the greatest woman of our time. We recently considered “There is No Alternative,” a book about Margaret Thatcher by Claire Berlinski, who did not know her. In the interest of gender fairness, we turn to Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of ...
