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Infographic: American Consumers Gone Wireless


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Pociask Quoted in the Sun-Sentinel: Citizens Over-Exposed


Reporter Maria Mallory-White discusses proposals to reduce the size of Citizens Corporation, the state-run homeowners insurer.  The article is available on the Sun-Sentinel’s website.

ACI Op-ed in Fort Meyers News-Press.Com


The News-Press Article is available online. Welfare for the Rich Floridians should be outraged and policymakers should be too.  Government-run Citizens insurance, now the biggest insurer in Florida, is Robin Hood in reverse.  Citizens provides artificially low insurance prices to homeowners along the hurricane-prone coast, and requires other homeowners to pick up the cost of [...]

This Season Give the Gift of Spectrum


The shortage of spectrum in the wireless market is no secret.  It’s been written about ad nauseam, including by me and many others at the American Consumer Institute.  The consensus is that there’s not enough spectrum allocated to the wireless companies, and there’s plenty of it available, ready to be sold off.  The unused spectrum [...]

The Twelve Days of Fiscal Cliff


On the twelfth day of Christmas my representative gave to me…   A cut in jobless pay,   27% Doc Fix,   2% more in FICA,   5% less in Cap gains,   An 8% taller bracket,   About half of my dividends,   An Unbridled AMT,   Chancy Med deductions,   Insecure Estate tax, [...]

New Study: Investment Tax Increases Threaten Two Million Jobs


New Study Highlights Impact of Tax Hikes on Investment Income Pending increase on investment income will threaten nearly 2 million jobs  WASHINGTON– Although much of the debate in Congress and the media about the upcoming ‘fiscal cliff’ has focused on federal spending and income taxes, the pending increases in dividend and capital gains tax rates [...]


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Comparing Certification Standards

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. (Milton Friedman)