Mandating More Expensive Televisions
Mandating More Expensive Televisions Donald Rieck and Wayne Winegarden This year, for the first time ever, the Super Bowl will be live-streamed over the Internet for free. NBC stated they are making...
View ArticleTHE GROWTH IMPERATIVE: An EconoStats Applied Political Economy Project
Years of undisciplined spending and unaffordable promises have led to between $76 trillion and $100 trillion of debt and unfunded liabilities. This unsustainable level of U.S. debt is not being...
View ArticleThe Nonsensical Economics of Hospital Pricing
This article originally appeared on Forbes. The U.S. health care system is rife with problems. One fundamental problem affecting the entire health care system is the meaningless pricing systems that...
View ArticleSuccessful Medicare Part D safe — for now
This article originally appeared on The Orlando Sentinel Medicare Part D — Medicare’s program that helps seniors cover the costs of pharmaceutical drugs — has been an unqualified success. And, perhaps,...
View ArticleLetter submitted to House Committee on Energy and Commerce regarding...
EconoSTATS Contributing Editor Wayne Winegarden’s submission to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce regarding the Communications Act and auction spectrum reforms under consideration on the Hill....
View ArticleAddress Patent Flaws or Face the Economic Consequences
By Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., May 8, 2014 This article originally appeared on Roll Call. The U.S. became the world’s largest economy, in part, because its policies supported innovation and...
View ArticleAn Obscure Regulatory Reclassification Would Harm the Vibrant Broadband Industry
This article originally appeared on Inside Sources. Congress has never passed net neutrality regulations. Not to be dissuaded from promulgating such regulations anyway, the FCC has found a loophole....
View ArticleWayne Winegarden submits comments to the House Committee on Energy and...
June 11, 2014 Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D. 933 N. Kenmore Street Suite 405 Arlington, VA 22201 Members of the Panel, Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments regarding the importance of...
View ArticleYou Don’t Promote a Competitive Broadband Market by Prohibiting Competition
This article originally appeared on Forbes. The public feuds between Internet providers, such as Comcast and Verizon, and content providers, such as Google and Netflix, have started an important debate...
View ArticleWayne Winegarden submission to FCC
July 14, 2014 Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D. 933 N. Kenmore Street Suite 405 Arlington, VA 22201 Members of the Panel, Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments regarding the possible...
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