Commentary
Commentary
Leviathan’s Drug Problem: Federal Monopoly of Pharmaceutical Regulation and its Deadly Cost
A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies hundreds of thousands of Americans timely access to new medicines. Leviathan’ s Drug Problem: The Cost of the Federal Monopoly ...
Business & Economics
Why It’s OK for Newspapers to Die
The transition that’s taking place in the news publishing industry — from print to online — is a healthy step in technology-driven evolution, though there will undoubtedly be some short-term pain. The loss of print newspapers is akin to the loss of the horse and buggy. The Internet offers the ...
Commentary
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report San Francisco (March 20, 2009) — A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies ...
Commentary
Regarding the Economics of Environmentalism, A Response to CAP’s Brad Johnson
GlobalWarming.org, March 20, 2009 OpenMarket.org, March 20, 2009 Over at the Center for American Progress, Brad Johnson, my sometimes interlocutor, takes issue with a recent Gallup poll for giving a “false choice between environmental protection and economic growth.” The subject of Johnson’s analysis is a report on the Gallup website ...
Commentary
The Myth of the 46 Million
“Even for folks who are weathering this economic storm, and have health care right now,” President Obama said at this month’s White House health care summit, “all it takes is one stroke of bad luck — an accident or an illness, a divorce, a lost job — to become one ...
Commentary
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges San Francisco (March 19, 2009) – On March 17th, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appointed Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies and senior director at the Pacific Research Institute, to the Board of Governors ...
Commentary
When America becomes Obamaland
There is one certainty about the shape of things to come if President Barack Obama wins approval of his extraordinarily ambitious proposals to remake America: We won’t recognize our country when he’s finished. Perhaps the most prominent feature of Obamaland will be long lines, starting with the unemployment offices, thanks ...
Agriculture
The Libertarian Perspective On California Water
Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
Commentary
St. Patrick’s Day Health-Care News from Ireland
(OK, so I am a little late for St. Paddy’s Day: It’s the thought that counts.) The Stockholm Network’s weekly bulletin for March 18 is not yet online, but it came into my e-mail with a fascinating bit of news from Eire:
Business & Economics
CNBC News: Fed Backs U.S. Economy
Insight on the Federal Reserve’s ‘build-up the balance sheet’ program, with Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; and CNBC’s Rick Santelli, Steve Liesman & Larry Kudlow.
Leviathan’s Drug Problem: Federal Monopoly of Pharmaceutical Regulation and its Deadly Cost
A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies hundreds of thousands of Americans timely access to new medicines. Leviathan’ s Drug Problem: The Cost of the Federal Monopoly ...
Why It’s OK for Newspapers to Die
The transition that’s taking place in the news publishing industry — from print to online — is a healthy step in technology-driven evolution, though there will undoubtedly be some short-term pain. The loss of print newspapers is akin to the loss of the horse and buggy. The Internet offers the ...
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report San Francisco (March 20, 2009) — A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies ...
Regarding the Economics of Environmentalism, A Response to CAP’s Brad Johnson
GlobalWarming.org, March 20, 2009 OpenMarket.org, March 20, 2009 Over at the Center for American Progress, Brad Johnson, my sometimes interlocutor, takes issue with a recent Gallup poll for giving a “false choice between environmental protection and economic growth.” The subject of Johnson’s analysis is a report on the Gallup website ...
The Myth of the 46 Million
“Even for folks who are weathering this economic storm, and have health care right now,” President Obama said at this month’s White House health care summit, “all it takes is one stroke of bad luck — an accident or an illness, a divorce, a lost job — to become one ...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appoints PRI’s Lance Izumi to Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges San Francisco (March 19, 2009) – On March 17th, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-appointed Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies and senior director at the Pacific Research Institute, to the Board of Governors ...
When America becomes Obamaland
There is one certainty about the shape of things to come if President Barack Obama wins approval of his extraordinarily ambitious proposals to remake America: We won’t recognize our country when he’s finished. Perhaps the most prominent feature of Obamaland will be long lines, starting with the unemployment offices, thanks ...
The Libertarian Perspective On California Water
Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
St. Patrick’s Day Health-Care News from Ireland
(OK, so I am a little late for St. Paddy’s Day: It’s the thought that counts.) The Stockholm Network’s weekly bulletin for March 18 is not yet online, but it came into my e-mail with a fascinating bit of news from Eire:
CNBC News: Fed Backs U.S. Economy
Insight on the Federal Reserve’s ‘build-up the balance sheet’ program, with Art Laffer, Laffer Investments; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; and CNBC’s Rick Santelli, Steve Liesman & Larry Kudlow.
