Wall Street Journal: A Disconnect on Municipal Broadband
Should city governments get into the Internet service business, competing with the likes of Verizon, AT&T and Comcast for the right to pipe the Web into your living room or office? President Obama...
View ArticleWSJ: Best Web Regulator Not Necessarily Net Neutrality
PPI Senior Fellow Hal Singer was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in a piece examining the adverse consequences of reclassifying the Internet as a public utility under Title II: “Somebody has to pay...
View ArticleWSJ: Why Entrenching Net Neutrality Carries Risks
PPI Senior Fellow Hal Singer was cited by The Wall Street Journal today in an article arguing that the Internet marketplace has so far kept “paid prioritization” of Internet traffic at bay without the...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Tech Employment: More Diverse Than You Think
PPI Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel and Economist Diana Carew’s new report, Tech Opportunity for Minorities and Women: A Good News, Bad News Story, was featured in the Wall Street Journal on...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal: How the FCC Will Wreck the Internet
The Federal Communications Commission injected a considerable amount of uncertainty into the high-tech sector in February when it reclassified Internet service providers (ISPs) as public utilities. If...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Obama’s Big Idea for Small Savers: ‘Robo’ Financial Advice
If you’re a Democratic policy maker worried about retirement savings for the little guy, would you deny millions of small savers access to financial advisers in ways that could cost them $80 billion in...
View ArticleWSJ: Beyond the Internet, Innovation Struggles
PPI Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel’s recent work on measuring innovation was featured in the Wall Street Journal: In a new study, Michael Mandel of the Progressive Policy Institute notes that...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Broadband Investment is Falling
PPI Senior Fellow Hal Singer’s analysis on the impact of the FCC’s net neutrality ruling was cited in the Wall Street Journal: Before Obamanet went into effect, economist Hal Singer of the Progressive...
View ArticleWSJ: Small Businesses With a Big Stake in the Pacific Trade Deal
During the seven years that the Trans-Pacific Partnership was being negotiated, critics repeatedly claimed that the trade agreement wouldn’t be about trade or cutting tariffs but, instead, would...
View ArticleWSJ: The Folly of Targeting Big Pharma
An unfortunate refrain among Democratic presidential hopefuls is that rapacious pharmaceutical and biotech companies are driving up the cost of essential medications, bankrupting the health-care...
View ArticleMarshall on Appointments of Wall Street Veterans
To The Wall Street Journal‘s Nick Timiraos, PPI President Will Marshall defended the use of Wall Street appointees to high-level presidential administrative positions: Some Democrats have faulted that...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: The App Economy and Apple
Daisuke Wakabayashi of The Wall Street Journal mentions data collected by PPI’s Michael Mandel, that analyzes America’s app economy, in his analysis of Apple: Apple said the business of creating apps...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal: Marshall on Anger with Wall Street
In his analysis of how the two parties still do not agree what caused the 2008 financial crisis, Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal quotes PPI president Will Marshall: Anger at Wall Street among...
View ArticleMandel for WSJ, “Robots Will Save the Economy”
The problem today is too little technology. Physical industries haven’t kept up. Some anxious forecasters project that robotics, automation and artificial intelligence will soon devastate the job...
View ArticleHow Ecommerce Creates Jobs and Reduces Income Inequality
The expansion of ecommerce is a significant plus for the income and living standards of high-school educated workers, not a minus. That’s welcome news, as demonstrated in our latest paper, “How...
View ArticleOsborne for the Wall Street Journal: “Charter Schools Are Flourishing on...
On Sept. 8, 1992, the first charter school opened, in St. Paul, Minn. Twenty-five years later, some 7,000 of these schools serve about three million students around the U.S. Their growth has become...
View ArticleGerwin for the WSJ, “In America’s Absence, the TPP Goes On”
The remaining 11 countries are to sign a renegotiated deal Thursday. U.S. companies will suffer. When President Trump announced the U.S. would pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in January 2017,...
View ArticleMarshall on Appointments of Wall Street Veterans
To The Wall Street Journal‘s Nick Timiraos, PPI President Will Marshall defended the use of Wall Street appointees to high-level presidential administrative positions: Some Democrats have faulted that...
View ArticleWSJ: Small Businesses With a Big Stake in the Pacific Trade Deal
During the seven years that the Trans-Pacific Partnership was being negotiated, critics repeatedly claimed that the trade agreement wouldn’t be about trade or cutting tariffs but, instead, would...
View ArticleWSJ: The Folly of Targeting Big Pharma
An unfortunate refrain among Democratic presidential hopefuls is that rapacious pharmaceutical and biotech companies are driving up the cost of essential medications, bankrupting the health-care...
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