Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Putting Drug Research in Legal Jeopardy
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Wyeth v. Levine—holding that drug manufacturers are not free of liability under state law, even when the drug in question has secured federal regulatory approval—has worried pharmaceutical manufacturers, who can now face crippling state tort lawsuits despite being in regulatory compliance. A less-noticed ...
Business & Economics
‘Sexting’: Zooming Out to See the Bigger Picture
This week, a federal judge blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three teenage girls in northeastern Pennsylvania over risque cell phone pictures they took of themselves. This respite from the bizarre “sexting” scandal allows time for a national dialogue on an issue that goes deeper than simple ...
Business & Economics
For the Love of the Game
The 2009 Major League Baseball season starts on Sunday night, when the Atlanta Braves visit the Philadelphia Phillies. On Monday, 13 more clubs will host their Opening Day games. We asked a distinguished group of fans — one for each of MLB’s 30 teams — to account for their passion. ...
Business & Economics
Is All “Fair” With the Obama Agenda?
President Obama and congressional Democrats are avidly pursuing a sweeping agenda they claim is justified by the need for greater “fairness.” This invites scrutiny of the various programs to verify if they do, in fact, promote fairness. “Free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice” is the standard meaning of fairness, which ...
Agriculture
The ‘credit crunch’: another Great Depression?
In the first part of his essay on the 1930s and today, Sean Collins puts the case for going beyond Keynesianism and monetarism and the obsession with finance to look at the deeper structural problems of capitalism. Last month Christina Romer, chair of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers, ...
Business & Economics
Private Firm Solves U.S. DTV Coupon Woes
The transition to digital broadcast television has been delayed until June, causing confusion because some broadcasters already switched as scheduled on February 17. One company is helping consumers quickly adjust—proof that the private sector is doing a better job preparing the public for the switch than the federal government has. ...
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. ...
Putting Drug Research in Legal Jeopardy
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Wyeth v. Levine—holding that drug manufacturers are not free of liability under state law, even when the drug in question has secured federal regulatory approval—has worried pharmaceutical manufacturers, who can now face crippling state tort lawsuits despite being in regulatory compliance. A less-noticed ...
‘Sexting’: Zooming Out to See the Bigger Picture
This week, a federal judge blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three teenage girls in northeastern Pennsylvania over risque cell phone pictures they took of themselves. This respite from the bizarre “sexting” scandal allows time for a national dialogue on an issue that goes deeper than simple ...
For the Love of the Game
The 2009 Major League Baseball season starts on Sunday night, when the Atlanta Braves visit the Philadelphia Phillies. On Monday, 13 more clubs will host their Opening Day games. We asked a distinguished group of fans — one for each of MLB’s 30 teams — to account for their passion. ...
Is All “Fair” With the Obama Agenda?
President Obama and congressional Democrats are avidly pursuing a sweeping agenda they claim is justified by the need for greater “fairness.” This invites scrutiny of the various programs to verify if they do, in fact, promote fairness. “Free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice” is the standard meaning of fairness, which ...
The ‘credit crunch’: another Great Depression?
In the first part of his essay on the 1930s and today, Sean Collins puts the case for going beyond Keynesianism and monetarism and the obsession with finance to look at the deeper structural problems of capitalism. Last month Christina Romer, chair of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers, ...
Private Firm Solves U.S. DTV Coupon Woes
The transition to digital broadcast television has been delayed until June, causing confusion because some broadcasters already switched as scheduled on February 17. One company is helping consumers quickly adjust—proof that the private sector is doing a better job preparing the public for the switch than the federal government has. ...
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. ...
