Publications

The most serious disease that afflicts public officials is arrested development.

If you like taxes, you should love the wireless phone industry! One of IPI’s fundamental principles of tax reform is transparency.

For 10 years, anti-TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) activists dreamed that Thailand would become the first developing country to use compulsory licensing to vitiate patents and thus facilitate the wholesale theft of innovative pharmaceutical products.

We’ve been trying to keep up with all of the new spending programs Senator Barack Obama promises to implement if he is elected president and, well, it hasn’t been easy.

As Congress and the FCC consider calls from activist groups demanding restrictions on how network companies manage their networks, they should begin with the understanding that Internet bandwidth, like everything else, is a scarce commodity and must be managed to give businesses and consumers the kind of speedy and robust Internet that we have all come to depend on—both now and in the future.

We don’t really know yet how much taxpayers will have to cough up for Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to fulfill their promise to get every American covered with health insurance.

As Congress and the FCC consider calls from activist groups demanding restrictions on how network companies manage their networks, they should begin with the understanding that Internet bandwidth, like everything else, is a scarce commodity and must be managed to give businesses and consumers the kind of speedy and robust Internet that we have all come to depend on—both now and in the future.

Ask any police officer in any state, county or city in America and they will tell you that they have the authority to pull over any driver who is driving erratically.

"What I try to do every day is figure out how to help somebody.

The entire edifice of insurance regulation by state governments is a leftover from the New Deal. Since World War II, in virtually every industry other than insurance, this type of regulatory control has been replaced by more realistic, market-based mechanisms. The recent attempts by the State of Florida to regulate insurance prices demonstrate the compelling need to modernize today’s dysfunctional state insurance regulatory system.