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WEBThe 2025 Real Solutions Summit will be hosted on May 6, 2025! Join leaders in politics, public policy, media, philanthropy, and the private sector who believe our best days are still ahead if we can unleash American innovation, bolster competition, and safeguard individual liberty. Save the Date. Analysis Competition & Antitrust, Federal ...
About R Street - R Street Institute
WEBThe R Street Institute (RSI) is a leading think tank focused on solving complex public policy challenges through free markets and limited, effective government. RSI consistently offers pragmatic, real solutions that foster American innovation, bolster competition, and safeguard individual liberty—all with the understanding that life in a ...
Research - R Street Institute
WEBFeb 7, 2023 · Research. We work extensively on both state and national policy, focusing on complex public policy issues that other groups tend to neglect. Explainers Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Finance and Trade, Interchange Fees.
Our Policy Areas - R Street Institute
WEBOur Policy Areas. Bringing a free market perspective to where it is needed most. R Street is a think tank build for the modern age. We focus on complex policy issues that other groups tend to neglect. Our work takes the form of deep research, commentary, events and coalition efforts at the national and state levels.
Artificial Intelligence - R Street Institute
WEBArtificial Intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the promise of fueling explosive economic growth and improving public health and welfare in profound ways—but only if we let it. To make progress on AI innovation and its governance, America needs a better approach than the all-or-nothing extremes driving today’s public discourse.
California Rejects AI Regulatory Extremism - R Street Institute
WEB19 hours ago · Policy pragmatism prevailed in California yesterday when Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047, the “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act.”The measure, which had passed the California Legislature a month earlier, proposed a radical new approach to digital technology policy in America. Newsom wisely rejected it because it would have come at “the potential ...
Financial First Responders - R Street Institute
WEB1 day ago · The property and casualty insurance industry had $2.7 trillion in assets at year-end 2023. It incurred $627 billion in losses in the year. The reinsurance industry has an additional $670 billion of capital, $108 billion of which is “alternative” capital in the form of insurance-linked securities, mainly catastrophe bonds.
Governance - R Street Institute
WEBGovernance. The R Street Institute’s Governance program defines how a limited, effective government should operate to promote a free and just society. The Governance team tackles how to modernize and improve our electoral system to elect a government worthy of public trust, and addresses how to run a government and ensure effective policymaking.
Projects - R Street Institute
WEBThe R Street Institute believes that health policy grounded in harm reduction has the potential to drastically reduce the negative consequences associated with various behaviors, both legal and illegal. Therefore, we embrace and promote all areas of harm reduction, including: cannabis, tobacco, alcohol, drugs and sexual health.
Autonomous vehicles are here. Let’s embrace them
WEB15 hours ago · Highly autonomous vehicles are coming to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. “Called Glydcars and made by a company called Glydways,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported “the podcars are coming as part of a long-planned pilot involving the ATL Airport Community Improvement Districts and MARTA to explore alternative and innovative transportation options at the airport.” The ...