by jpitney | Aug 11, 2025 | Business, Economic Policy, Trade
Patricia Cohen at NYT: Smaller firms, for instance, not only have fewer resources to weather unexpected costs, they also lack the bargaining power of megastores like Walmart to pressure suppliers to lower prices. They may also lack access to lines of credit available...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2024 | Business, Regulation
In September, Phil Gramm wrote at The Wall Street Journal: Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, doesn’t get enough credit for the quarter-century economic boom from 1983 to 2008 and the underlying resilience of the economy since. Without Mr. Carter’s deregulation of...
by jpitney | Oct 2, 2024 | Bureaucracy, Business, Regulation, Uncategorized
Phil Gramm at WSJ: Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, doesn’t get enough credit for the quarter-century economic boom from 1983 to 2008 and the underlying resilience of the economy since. Without Mr. Carter’s deregulation of airlines, trucking, railroads, energy...
by jpitney | Sep 20, 2024 | Business
William A. Mundell and David Dreier at Pensions and Investments: In the Oliver Stone film “Wall Street,” protagonist Gordon Gekko delivered what became the defining battle cry of 1980’s America capitalism, “Greed — for lack of a better word — is good.” Excess was a...
by jpitney | Sep 4, 2024 | Business, California Politics, Local Government
From Kosmont-Rose Institute 2024 Cost of Doing Business Survey: Our analysis indicates that cities in Los Angeles County are collectively more expensive places to do business than cities in other parts of the region and also more expensive than the top destination...
by jpitney | Mar 26, 2024 | Business, Civic Education, Civility, Deliberation, Public Opinion
From the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation: A comprehensive new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation reveals an alarming truth just three years shy of America’s 250th anniversary—the nation’s civic knowledge is badly lagging. The national survey, which...
