In the Atlantic, Michael Mandel explains how the Federal Trade Commission’s looming antitrust settlement with the search giant shows that regulators can do their job without…
This morning the WSJ ran a story entitled “Investment Falls Off a Cliff: U.S. Companies Cut Spending Plans Amid Fiscal and Economic Uncertainty.” The story argued that:…
The economy is improving, but the U.S. is still struggling with an investment drought. Capital spending by business is 26% below the long-term trend, and…
Going into the next two debates, Barack Obama would certainly like a bit more of Bill Clinton’s mojo. After all, Clinton both won a second…
There seems to be a theory going around that the current tech boom has entered into bubble territory. In a piece entitled “Is the dot…
I was looking at the April CPI this morning, and I got to thinking about Dropbox. I use Dropbox literally 25-50 times a day. I’m…
PPI has long held the position that quickly reallocating spectrum to the most efficient users– big and small –is essential for the continued growth of…
PPI Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel brought forward one very important fact yesterday at the Institute for Policy Innovation’s “Creating the Future” Summit: for the…
AT&T is a big company, which perhaps explains why federal regulators are ganging up to block its proposed merger with T-Mobile. Big must be bad,…
America’s job drought is really America’s capital spending drought. As of the first quarter of 2011—a year and a half after the recession officially ended—business…