Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Researcher Rebukes Wireless ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
The attempt to force network neutrality on wireless carriers will result in disaster and is based on faulty assumptions, including one that there ever was neutrality on the Internet, according to a newly released analysis from the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). In what is essentially an upbraiding of emerging FCC ...
Business & Economics
Trial Lawyers Say Recent Study Proves Tort Reform Doesn’t Work
A new study on tort reform by a business-backed institute “proves tort reform does not work,” according to the association for the nation’s trial lawyers. American Association for Justice CEO Jon Haber, representing trial lawyers, said the state rankings recently released by Pacific Research Institute (PRI) show there is no ...
Business & Economics
Wireless with Strings Attached: Net Neutrality and the Grounding of Wireless Innovation
In the digital age, Americans are more “connected” than ever before. The Internet and mobile devices serve as powerful platforms for real-time interaction. Thanks to the commercial potential of these technologies, the marketplace has been flooded with creative new businesses and tools. The rapid growth of these technologies, however, has ...
Business & Economics
Illinois is a lawsuit magnet
Every day we seem to be inundated with yet even more grim economic news. With the nation’s economy apparently teetering, Illinois is in the uncomfortable position of facing the possibility of a recession without the luxury of ever fully recovering from the last one. From 2001 to 2006, the United ...
Business & Economics
Tech Market of the Future: The Brain
The Alzheimer’s Association recently reported that one out of eight baby boomers is expected to get Alzheimer’s disease, creating a total of 10 million victims. This staggering prediction underscores the need for brain health and augmentation, a new market that tech players are fortunately beginning to enter. Just as it ...
Business & Economics
State legislators: There’s gold in that ‘net
California’s lawmakers seek to derail one of the state’s thriving industries: the technology sector. This bipartisan agenda targets e-commerce, arming bureaucrats with vast new authority to monitor, regulate and tax the Internet. A recent survey of the Silicon Valley’s economy reveals that policy makers should study and replicate this unique ...
Business & Economics
Battling Wall St. Crisis
An outlook on the U.S. economy, with Lyle Gramley, fmr. Federal Reserve Governor; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute Sr. Fellow; Wayne Angell, fmr. Federal Reserve Gov.; and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow.
Business & Economics
The Fed at the Buzzer
The other March Madness? The Federal Reserve, in complete crisis mode, is widely expected to cut the federal funds rate this week, but one of its own is taking issue. Lee Hoskins, a former president of the Cleveland Fed, writes at Forbes and (aided by Robert P. Murphy of the ...
Business & Economics
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic”
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic” PHYSICAL GOLD PRICES leapt more than 3% at the start of world trade on Monday – and the US Dollar and Asian stock markets sank – on news that the Federal Reserve will today start ...
Business & Economics
Memo To The Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts
The markets rallied last Tuesday in response to the Fed’s growing assistance to holders of mortgage-backed securities. Yet many onlookers are convinced that an aggressive cut in the federal funds rate at the upcoming March 18 meeting is still necessary to avoid a painful recession. In our view, further loosening ...
Researcher Rebukes Wireless ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
The attempt to force network neutrality on wireless carriers will result in disaster and is based on faulty assumptions, including one that there ever was neutrality on the Internet, according to a newly released analysis from the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). In what is essentially an upbraiding of emerging FCC ...
Trial Lawyers Say Recent Study Proves Tort Reform Doesn’t Work
A new study on tort reform by a business-backed institute “proves tort reform does not work,” according to the association for the nation’s trial lawyers. American Association for Justice CEO Jon Haber, representing trial lawyers, said the state rankings recently released by Pacific Research Institute (PRI) show there is no ...
Wireless with Strings Attached: Net Neutrality and the Grounding of Wireless Innovation
In the digital age, Americans are more “connected” than ever before. The Internet and mobile devices serve as powerful platforms for real-time interaction. Thanks to the commercial potential of these technologies, the marketplace has been flooded with creative new businesses and tools. The rapid growth of these technologies, however, has ...
Illinois is a lawsuit magnet
Every day we seem to be inundated with yet even more grim economic news. With the nation’s economy apparently teetering, Illinois is in the uncomfortable position of facing the possibility of a recession without the luxury of ever fully recovering from the last one. From 2001 to 2006, the United ...
Tech Market of the Future: The Brain
The Alzheimer’s Association recently reported that one out of eight baby boomers is expected to get Alzheimer’s disease, creating a total of 10 million victims. This staggering prediction underscores the need for brain health and augmentation, a new market that tech players are fortunately beginning to enter. Just as it ...
State legislators: There’s gold in that ‘net
California’s lawmakers seek to derail one of the state’s thriving industries: the technology sector. This bipartisan agenda targets e-commerce, arming bureaucrats with vast new authority to monitor, regulate and tax the Internet. A recent survey of the Silicon Valley’s economy reveals that policy makers should study and replicate this unique ...
Battling Wall St. Crisis
An outlook on the U.S. economy, with Lyle Gramley, fmr. Federal Reserve Governor; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute Sr. Fellow; Wayne Angell, fmr. Federal Reserve Gov.; and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow.
The Fed at the Buzzer
The other March Madness? The Federal Reserve, in complete crisis mode, is widely expected to cut the federal funds rate this week, but one of its own is taking issue. Lee Hoskins, a former president of the Cleveland Fed, writes at Forbes and (aided by Robert P. Murphy of the ...
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic”
Gold Jumps 3% on Fed’s “Sunday Special” as Stocks, Bonds & Currencies Enter “Genuine Panic” PHYSICAL GOLD PRICES leapt more than 3% at the start of world trade on Monday – and the US Dollar and Asian stock markets sank – on news that the Federal Reserve will today start ...
Memo To The Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts
The markets rallied last Tuesday in response to the Fed’s growing assistance to holders of mortgage-backed securities. Yet many onlookers are convinced that an aggressive cut in the federal funds rate at the upcoming March 18 meeting is still necessary to avoid a painful recession. In our view, further loosening ...
