Commentary
Business & Economics
Consumers paying at retailer’s expense
Most Americans swipe credit cards without thinking twice. But our ability to do so is under attack. Seven years ago, a group of retailers launched a lawsuit alleging that card issuers unfairly dictate merchant credit card fees. Although the parties agreed to a legal settlement, some retailers are threatening to ...
Commentary
Treating Alzheimer’s with regulations
Bureaucracy stands in the way of the best treatment The U.S. health care system is rife with rising costs and stagnating quality. All too often, the cure for these ailments calls for ever greater government intervention. Such cures misdiagnose the problem. The health care systems problems are caused by too ...
Commentary
Ronald Reagan’s Education Legacy
SACRAMENTO, CA – While Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy changed the face of the world, it shouldnt be forgotten that his leadership also dramatically changed the face of issues at home. Top among those was education. In 1983, the Reagan administration released the groundbreaking report A Nation at Risk. Using a ...
Commentary
Big Pharma Accomplishes Big Things, Yet Obama Is Suffocating The Industry
Whats the most research-intensive industry in America? If you guessed Silicon Valley or the energy sector, guess again. In fact, its the drug industry. The 31 pharmaceutical companies comprising its main trade group spent $48.5 billion on research and development last year. All told, the pharmaceutical sector has spent $550 ...
Commentary
Happy Earth Day!
Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, the American Enterprise Institute and the Pacific Research Institute are out today with their annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. Despite the scare talk of groups like the Sierra Club, after four years of President Bush in the White House and ...
California
2013 Supplement to the 2011 Environmental Almanac
The reduction in air pollution continues to be the most successful domain of pollution reduction since the first Earth Day in 1970. Since the first edition of this Almanac two years ago, reductions in air pollution have been astonishing. The EPA recently updated its inventory of ambient air pollution levels ...
Commentary
Obamacare To Slash Hundreds Of Billions From Medicare Advantage Over Next 10 Years
Earlier this month, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that theyd increase payments in the market-based Medicare Advantage program by 3.3 percent next year. The decision is remarkable, as CMS hinted just two months ago that it would reduce payments by 2.2 percent in 2014. The ...
Business & Economics
California drives away businesses, tax receipts
Flaresun Fire Group is an innovative start-up that makes equipment designed to help first responders rescue people trapped underground or down steep embankments. Flaresun is also notable because its one of the latest companies to flee California thanks to the Golden States punitive corporate tax rates. Between 1992 and 2008, ...
Commentary
Fed Up With Obamacare, Doctors Increasingly Prefer Cash For Care
Obamacares most intrusive changes to the healthcare marketplace including the individual mandate whereby Americans must secure health insurance or pay a fine and its massive expansion of Medicaid are less than a year from taking effect. Many doctors have decided that theyre not interested in seeing how those ...
Agriculture
Uncle Sam likes his sugar
The federal government continues to envision itself as Saint Michael, whose role is to save failing industries from the horrors of the market’s cruel discipline. At least it would seem so from its recent actions. Government bailouts for investment banks, insurance companies, large banks, small banks and the automobile companies ...
Consumers paying at retailer’s expense
Most Americans swipe credit cards without thinking twice. But our ability to do so is under attack. Seven years ago, a group of retailers launched a lawsuit alleging that card issuers unfairly dictate merchant credit card fees. Although the parties agreed to a legal settlement, some retailers are threatening to ...
Treating Alzheimer’s with regulations
Bureaucracy stands in the way of the best treatment The U.S. health care system is rife with rising costs and stagnating quality. All too often, the cure for these ailments calls for ever greater government intervention. Such cures misdiagnose the problem. The health care systems problems are caused by too ...
Ronald Reagan’s Education Legacy
SACRAMENTO, CA – While Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy changed the face of the world, it shouldnt be forgotten that his leadership also dramatically changed the face of issues at home. Top among those was education. In 1983, the Reagan administration released the groundbreaking report A Nation at Risk. Using a ...
Big Pharma Accomplishes Big Things, Yet Obama Is Suffocating The Industry
Whats the most research-intensive industry in America? If you guessed Silicon Valley or the energy sector, guess again. In fact, its the drug industry. The 31 pharmaceutical companies comprising its main trade group spent $48.5 billion on research and development last year. All told, the pharmaceutical sector has spent $550 ...
Happy Earth Day!
Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, the American Enterprise Institute and the Pacific Research Institute are out today with their annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. Despite the scare talk of groups like the Sierra Club, after four years of President Bush in the White House and ...
2013 Supplement to the 2011 Environmental Almanac
The reduction in air pollution continues to be the most successful domain of pollution reduction since the first Earth Day in 1970. Since the first edition of this Almanac two years ago, reductions in air pollution have been astonishing. The EPA recently updated its inventory of ambient air pollution levels ...
Obamacare To Slash Hundreds Of Billions From Medicare Advantage Over Next 10 Years
Earlier this month, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that theyd increase payments in the market-based Medicare Advantage program by 3.3 percent next year. The decision is remarkable, as CMS hinted just two months ago that it would reduce payments by 2.2 percent in 2014. The ...
California drives away businesses, tax receipts
Flaresun Fire Group is an innovative start-up that makes equipment designed to help first responders rescue people trapped underground or down steep embankments. Flaresun is also notable because its one of the latest companies to flee California thanks to the Golden States punitive corporate tax rates. Between 1992 and 2008, ...
Fed Up With Obamacare, Doctors Increasingly Prefer Cash For Care
Obamacares most intrusive changes to the healthcare marketplace including the individual mandate whereby Americans must secure health insurance or pay a fine and its massive expansion of Medicaid are less than a year from taking effect. Many doctors have decided that theyre not interested in seeing how those ...
Uncle Sam likes his sugar
The federal government continues to envision itself as Saint Michael, whose role is to save failing industries from the horrors of the market’s cruel discipline. At least it would seem so from its recent actions. Government bailouts for investment banks, insurance companies, large banks, small banks and the automobile companies ...
