Publications
Business & Economics
“The Spending-Industrial Complex” and the Future of California
SACRAMENTO – California’s current crisis, worst since the 1930s, has spurred talk of revising the state constitution. Legislators so inclined might first consider recommendations from the 1996 California Constitution Revision Committee, subject of a July 10 lecture by Fred Silva at the University of California’s Sacramento Center. Mr. Silva was ...
Education
Politicians’ Broken Promises Shatter Hopes for DC Families
President Obama recently promised to continue funding the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program by allowing students currently enrolled to complete their education. This decision will prevent many students from being forced from their schools of choice, but it fails to help the thousands of DC parents who hoped to use vouchers ...
Commentary
U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to this third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). ...
California
Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines. Currently under negotiation between ...
Health Care
Medicaid’s Costs, Like Medicare’s, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care
As the congressional debate heats up over President Obama’s proposed “public option” and his proposed expansion of Medicaid, the debate largely centers on the question of controlling costs. The president claims that more government control would make health care more affordable. The empirical evidence, however, confirms that more government control ...
Business & Economics
The Pacific Research Institute Introduces the California Enterprise Value Index
CEVI Peaked 10 Years Ago – On a Three-Year Downward Trend San Francisco, July 9, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the introduction of the California Enterprise Value Index, a measure of the enterprise value (EV) of publicly traded companies headquartered in California relative to the EV ...
Business & Economics
California Enterprise Value Index
The California Enterprise Value Index is a measure of the enterprise value (EV) of publicly traded companies headquartered in California relative to the EV of all U.S. publicly traded companies. This is the first measure in an ongoing series. “The Index is a barometer of the relative underperformance or overperformance ...
Business & Economics
Governor Schwarzenegger Takes a Stand for Tech
Last week Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed a budget measure that would have cut off the livelihood of thousands of California’s small Internet businesses. As the state faces a $26 billion budget deficit and record high unemployment, Schwarzenegger declared that “we should be doing everything we can to keep jobs and create ...
Business & Economics
The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy
San Francisco, July 7, 2009 — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of a new report on Internet privacy and security. Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government ...
Business & Economics
Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web
Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government regulated privacy policy on emerging online businesses. He also provides effective strategies for empowering consumers while promoting choice and competition. Dr. Ballon writes, “The ...
“The Spending-Industrial Complex” and the Future of California
SACRAMENTO – California’s current crisis, worst since the 1930s, has spurred talk of revising the state constitution. Legislators so inclined might first consider recommendations from the 1996 California Constitution Revision Committee, subject of a July 10 lecture by Fred Silva at the University of California’s Sacramento Center. Mr. Silva was ...
Politicians’ Broken Promises Shatter Hopes for DC Families
President Obama recently promised to continue funding the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program by allowing students currently enrolled to complete their education. This decision will prevent many students from being forced from their schools of choice, but it fails to help the thousands of DC parents who hoped to use vouchers ...
U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to this third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). ...
Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines. Currently under negotiation between ...
Medicaid’s Costs, Like Medicare’s, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care
As the congressional debate heats up over President Obama’s proposed “public option” and his proposed expansion of Medicaid, the debate largely centers on the question of controlling costs. The president claims that more government control would make health care more affordable. The empirical evidence, however, confirms that more government control ...
The Pacific Research Institute Introduces the California Enterprise Value Index
CEVI Peaked 10 Years Ago – On a Three-Year Downward Trend San Francisco, July 9, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the introduction of the California Enterprise Value Index, a measure of the enterprise value (EV) of publicly traded companies headquartered in California relative to the EV ...
California Enterprise Value Index
The California Enterprise Value Index is a measure of the enterprise value (EV) of publicly traded companies headquartered in California relative to the EV of all U.S. publicly traded companies. This is the first measure in an ongoing series. “The Index is a barometer of the relative underperformance or overperformance ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Takes a Stand for Tech
Last week Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed a budget measure that would have cut off the livelihood of thousands of California’s small Internet businesses. As the state faces a $26 billion budget deficit and record high unemployment, Schwarzenegger declared that “we should be doing everything we can to keep jobs and create ...
The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy
San Francisco, July 7, 2009 — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of a new report on Internet privacy and security. Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government ...
Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web
Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government regulated privacy policy on emerging online businesses. He also provides effective strategies for empowering consumers while promoting choice and competition. Dr. Ballon writes, “The ...
