Pinpoint Policy Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting and defending the essential pillars of American prosperity.
The American experiment is rooted in entrepreneurship, innovation, individual rights, and the rule of law. Those principles have helped produce extraordinary gains in prosperity and given generations of Americans the opportunity to build better lives for themselves and their families.
That success does not happen on its own.
Ill-conceived legislation, burdensome regulation, and misguided oversight can close markets, protect entrenched interests, and make it harder for new ideas to compete. Too many policy debates treat the economy as a zero-sum contest and give too little attention to the growth that makes broader prosperity possible.
We advance policies that encourage investment, competition, innovation, energy abundance, and a modern American workforce. We also examine the institutions, research, and arguments influencing public policy and ask whether the evidence supports the claims being made.
Our goal is straightforward: strengthen the conditions that have made America prosperous and push back when government or entrenched interests put those conditions at risk.
Our approach
Good policy starts with understanding what the evidence actually says.
Pinpoint produces original analysis, evaluates outside research, and examines the economic consequences of new legislation, regulations, and policy proposals. We care about the assumptions behind the headline as much as the headline itself.
Policy choices come with tradeoffs.
Pinpoint works to give elected officials, regulators, staff, and other decision-makers clear information about those tradeoffs and the consequences their decisions can have for growth, investment, workers, and consumers.
Bad ideas do not wait for a six-month research cycle.
Pinpoint responds to emerging debates while they are still taking shape, bringing data and economic analysis into the conversation when it can have the greatest impact.
Economic policy affects people well beyond Washington.
We work to make complicated policy debates understandable and relevant to the businesses, workers, families, and communities that ultimately live with the results.
What guides our work
Markets work best when the rules are clear and predictable. Competition should be vigorous. New entrants should have a fair chance to challenge incumbents. Workers should have the freedom to pursue opportunity. American resources and innovation should be treated as advantages rather than liabilities.
Government policy should strengthen those conditions rather than manage outcomes from the top down.
That outlook shapes Pinpoint's work across entrepreneurship, market dynamism, energy abundance, and human capital.
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Leadership
Executive Director
Eric Ventimiglia serves as Executive Director of Pinpoint Policy Institute.
His career includes service as a presidential appointee in the U.S. Departments of Education and Agriculture during the first Trump Administration, work on campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels, and leadership of an issue-based 501(c)(4) organization focused on taxes and the economy.
Ventimiglia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Oakland University.
