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Policy makers should resist the impulse to insinuate themselves into private business negotiations, and leave markets to determine the value of programming.

There are four reasons why prescription drugs have become so pricey.

Jerry Brown is frugal — "notoriously" so — in making productive resources of people who want to work available to California's employers. No wonder Dr. Merrill Matthews at the Institute for Policy Innovation is so pleased for his home state of Texas today.

The Affordable Care Act has turned six and not one of President Obama’s vaunted promises has come true—not one.

What the president was subtly alluding to in his carefully worded statement is that Garland is a moderate liberal, not an ideologue, and thus hinting at the possibility that Garland just might be a liberal “swing vote.” That’s a justice who occasionally crosses over to vote with the opposing ideological side. Don’t hold your breath. 

Howard’s president, Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, and the board want to sell the spectrum used by WHUT. There has been increasing demand for these invisible waves by cable and mobile phone providers. Tom Giovanetti, president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, noted on RealClearTechnology, “Spectrum is the most unappreciated and underrated of our natural resources. In economic terms, spectrum is particularly scarce, since there is an absolutely fixed amount of spectrum available.”

Does Trump’s policy ignorance make any difference? I shudder to think what it will look like if—or when—he engages in one-on-one debates with Hillary Clinton.

"The notion that you go in with a plurality, therefore you deserve the nomination is just flat wrong", said Merrill Matthews, who is a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas.

This week marks the sixth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, one of the country’s worst public policy disasters. The president has had almost nothing but bad health care news since the legislation passed.

Creative Content Australia Executive Director Lori Flekser cites Tom Giovanetti, who said: “Patronising suggestions that creators should 'innovate' away their problems is an unhelpful contribution adding nothing to discourse about solutions to piracy…  Content owners ARE innovating. They also want their product protected against massive theft. It’s not a matter of either/or—it’s a matter of both/and.”