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The Google Way: How Washington Can Regulate Without Killing Growth

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…

FCC: A Broadband Assessment without Mobile is Incomplete

This week the FCC concluded that “broadband is not being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion” in its eighth annual “Broadband…

Should the FTC Make Innovation a Bigger Priority?

The FTC’s recent settlements with Google and Facebook raise an interesting question about how such regulatory run-ins can affect future innovation. The FTC fined Google…

Libor Scandal and Public Data Manipulation

Editor’s Note: This item is cross-posted from Innovation and Growth. I found myself reacting to the Libor scandal more strongly than a lot of the earlier…

Forget China… Privacy War in U.S.?

PPI’s Chief Economic Strategist, Michael Mandel, on CNBC’s Closing Bell earlier this week discussing internet and mobile app privacy.

Start-up 2.0: Another Welcome Boost for Entrepreneurs

Last month, Congress and the president passed major legislation (the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act) aimed at making it easier for start-ups and small…

PPI Battleground Home Values Index: Home Values Tick Upward

We have had a bevy of economic and political “events” in the last six months that have focused on stabilizing home prices. The President’s efforts…

Why Bash Innovative Google?

Let me get this straight.  The communications boom is finally reviving the U.S. economy. There’s an incredible wave of startup activity and excitement around smartphones,…

Occupational Licensing: How A New Guild Mentality Thwarts Innovation

The late economist Mancur Olson would have been a fan of Jonathan Ames. Ames is the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death as…

5 Ideas for the State of the Union and Beyond

IDEA #1: Scraping regulatory barnacles off the economy—A Regulatory Improvement Commission In our policy brief, “Reviving Jobs and Innovation: A Progressive approach to Improving Regulation,”…