Here is an op-ed written by Steve Pociask on how Florida can attract investment, increase the tax base, and create jobs by developing resort casinos in southern Florida.

Do you “spend” savings on projects that will create future prosperity for you and your family?   If you do, you are actually “investing.”   Most consumers and businesses invest; we upgrade houses or equipment and we buy financial assets.  We invest in mundane projects such as replacing a leaky roof, or in speculative projects such as [...]

You may never have heard of them before, but Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI) and Medco are two of the most important companies in the United States.  These two corporations are pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), businesses that act as middlemen between the pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies (as well as between drug companies and sponsors of prescription [...]

ACI Experts Erwin Blackstone, Larry Darby (deceased) and Joseph Fuhr write the on the duopolies, and conclude that industry structure is not a sufficient basis for imposing regulations.  To read this study visit CATO. 

This ConsumerGram discusses how Google uses near perfect price discrimination and multi-sided markets to profit on search advertising.  The ConsumerGram was written by Dr. Larry Darby, a former FCC Bureau Chief and Chief Economist, shortly before his passing last year.  Click here to download the entire piece — CG on multisided markets and price discrimination

Read Julie Patel’s article in the Sun-Sentinel here.

In light of Verizon’s acquisition of billions of dollars of spectrum from the cable operators, it now seems apparent that AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile is even more important to the interests of consumers.  Verizon is poised to acquire spectrum that would cover 259 million American’s, giving it the ability to drastically increase its level [...]

This ConsumerGram examines how the shift from purchasing to the Internet is not only influencing retailers, but also positively affecting the environment by reducing energy and decreasing air pollutants, hazardous waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  Cyber Monday can now be looked upon as Green Monday in more ways than one.  Click here to read [...]

On December 7, 2011, The Hill’s Congress Blog published Steve Pociask’s blog — “Another Opportunity to Question Google’s Practices.” 

Among the cleanest and most promising technologies in energy production doesn’t come from the sun or the wind or the waters.  Hydraulic fracturing, a newly perfected way to extract natural gas from the ground, gives American energy a breath of new hope, as our reliance on foreign energy sources has been on the rise. Now [...]