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Regulatory Improvement Commission: A Politically-Viable Approach to U.S. Regulatory Reform

The natural accumulation of federal regulations over time imposes an unintended but significant cost to businesses and to economic growth. However, no effective process currently…

Conference Report – The Rise of the Data-Driven Economy: Implications for Growth and Policy

On October 10-12, 2012, the Progressive Policy Institute joined forces with John Cabot University in Rome to highlight the transformative potential of rise of data-driven…

Investment Heroes: Who’s Betting on America’s Future?

American voters are finding it hard to get excited about this year’s presidential election. Job growth is slow. Economic growth is slow. Real wages have…

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PPI Releases New Report on Regulatory Reform

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2013 PRESS CONTACT: Steven Chlapecka—schlapecka@ppionline.org, T: 202.525.3931 Regulatory Improvement Commission Would Drive Growth and Innovation WASHINGTON—The creation of…

How the FCC Could Shape a Mobile Data-Driven Economy

Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has a critical choice to make if he is confirmed by…

What Privacy Means to Americans vs. Europeans

Paul W. Taylor discusses the different attitudes towards privacy in American and European contexts in Governing Magazine, using PPI’s recent conference in Rome as a backdrop….

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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…

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