April 2009 Archives
RAND Corp. Book Sale; Plus Free Ayn
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 29, 2009
The RAND Corporation is offering various books for sale at 40% discounts from the titles' respective cover prices.
None of the sale publications are new releases, and while it's arguable that some might already be dated (one title from 2002 is teased as offering "next steps in the U.S. campaign to defeat al Qaeda and combat terrorism"), many of the reads are clearly evergreen.
Permalink DiscussMilken Fest: Links To Others' Coverage
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 28, 2009
TTLA is sorry to report that this blog is not in Beverly Hills this week, observing first-hand the goings-on at the Milken Institute's Global Conference 2009. The Milken site has video and other info. And via one search engine, here's early news coverage.
Permalink DiscussUCLA Updates Study, Now Counts Uninsured Ages 0-64
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 24, 2009
Yesterday, TTLA posted this, about data collected and analyzed by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, through the Center's ambitious CHIS project.
Today's in-box brings news of an update to that study.
Permalink DiscussUCLA on CA Kids Without Health Insurance
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 22, 2009
Last autumn, TTLA spent time in Westwood, at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The Center is directed by E. Richard Brown, who TTLA mentioned here.
The Center's signature program is CHIS, the California Health Interview Survey. Information gleaned from this massive statewide survey is used in study after study produced by the Center's researchers, and by others.
Permalink Discuss (2 Comments)Frugality is In, Says Tracker of the Wealthy
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 21, 2009
Sure, it's not exactly SoCal-specific; not exactly a think tank; and at five-weeks-old, not exactly breaking news...
But still, TTLA couldn't resist passing along a few of the insights from the March 15,2009 edition (Vol. 105, No. 3) of The Wealth Report (Motto: "Leading Edge Insights into the World of the Wealthy"), a publication of the Manhattan-based Luxury Institute (Motto: "The Knowledge of Luxury, The Luxury of Knowledge").
Permalink DiscussHuge Milken Conference Coming Soon
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 17, 2009
We're at t-minus ten days before the Milken Institute's (previous posts here and here) "2009 Global Conference" begins.
The aim of the happening, according to the think tank's website:
"...to discuss, debate and deliberate the most difficult challenges facing businesses, investors, governments and non-governmental organizations."Permalink Discuss (3 Comments)
Latest 'Tank' Title: "Stupid Fun Club"
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 15, 2009
No Centers or Institutes today. No joints named via acronym, or after a funder.
And no essaying today on the old favorite topic of, "What is a think tank?"
Instead, we pass along news of Stupid Fun Club, which according to news reports, will be an "entertainment think tank" as content creator.
Permalink DiscussBailout Cost Nearing $10 Trillion
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 7, 2009
Staff at the the Milken Institute have been tabulating the overall cost of the ongoing federal economic bailout.
The sum, according to Milken's most recent (March 20, 2009) updating: $9,893,284,000,000.
Permalink Discuss (1 Comments)More Flat Rooftops for Proposed L.A. Skyscrapers?
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 5, 2009
The L.A. Times print edition featured recently a front page story about this proposed new downtown hotel / office complex.
From the renderings, it looks to TTLA's untrained eyes the crowns of these 40- and 60-story buildings look to be yet another example of the power of Municipal Code Sec. 57.118.12.
That's the 35-year-old insertion titled “Emergency Helicopter Landing Facility."
“Each building," the code reads ,"shall have a rooftop emergency helicopter landing facility in a location approved by the [Fire] Chief.”
Permalink Discuss (2 Comments)'Buy a House, Get a Green Card,' Ayn Rand Boss Said
By Jeremy Rosenberg
April 2, 2009
Last fall, TTLA traveled down to an office complex in Irvine and paid a visit to the Ayn Rand Institute.
During a free-wheeling conversation about, in great part, free enterprise and the ongoing financial crisis, ARI president Dr. Yaron Brook brought up an idea that has been popping up elsewhere since:
In short, that idea is summed up by Brook's suggested pitch: "Buy a house, get a green card."
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