Our priorities
The conditions for American prosperity.
Economic growth depends on a set of conditions that reinforce one another.
Entrepreneurs need open markets. Open markets need rules that are stable and predictable. New industries need affordable and abundant energy. A growing economy needs workers who are free to build skills, pursue opportunity, and benefit from growth.
Pinpoint Policy Institute concentrates its work in four areas where public policy can strengthen those conditions or weaken them.
Entrepreneurship
America should remain the best place in the world to turn an idea into a business.
Areas of Focus
- Barriers to starting and growing businesses
- Access to capital and markets
- Policies that protect incumbents from competition
- Regulation affecting innovation and risk-taking
- The economic conditions that allow new industries to emerge
There is nowhere on Earth where it is easier for an idea to find a market than America. When that market does not yet exist, Americans have a long history of creating it.
That entrepreneurial spirit has been central to the American success story for more than 200 years. It is also easy to take for granted.
Intrusive policies can raise the cost of starting and growing a business, protect established interests from new competitors, and make risk-taking less attractive. Over time, those barriers mean fewer new companies, less innovation, and fewer opportunities for workers and consumers.
Pinpoint advances policies that preserve the freedom to build and compete. We also provide fact-based analysis of proposals that would make entrepreneurship more difficult or diminish America's capacity for innovation.
Market Dynamism
No one has a monopoly on the next good idea.
Areas of Focus
- Competition and consumer choice
- Regulatory predictability
- Capital formation and investment
- Financial and capital-market policy
- The economic cost of overregulation
- Policies that restrict or distort open markets
The American market economy depends on decentralized creativity. A major corporation, a small business owner, a young student, or an entrepreneur working from a spare bedroom can all produce the idea that changes an industry.
That process depends on markets that remain open to competition.
Pinpoint defends the vibrancy of the American economy from policies that close markets, limit consumer choice, or give government too much power to determine which businesses and business models succeed.
Stable and predictable rules matter. So does vigorous competition.
Our work examines the real economic costs of regulation and other policies that discourage investment, constrain markets, or protect politically favored interests from competition.
Energy Abundance
American energy is an economic and strategic advantage.
Areas of Focus
- Domestic energy production
- Permitting and infrastructure
- Energy affordability and reliability
- Regulation affecting energy supply
- Energy-intensive manufacturing and emerging technologies
- America's energy advantage in global competition
Over the past two decades, the United States has undergone a remarkable transformation in energy production.
America no longer has to accept dependence on foreign energy as an unavoidable fact of economic life. Domestic energy production has become a source of economic strength, greater security, and competitive advantage.
That advantage will matter even more as new industries, advanced manufacturing, data centers, artificial intelligence, and other technologies increase demand for reliable power.
Pinpoint champions policies that recognize America's natural resources and energy capacity as assets. We support the production, infrastructure, and regulatory environment necessary to keep energy reliable and affordable while strengthening America's position against foreign competitors and adversaries.
Human Capital
A growing economy should create more ways for people to get ahead.
Areas of Focus
- Flexible labor markets
- Worker mobility
- Workforce development and skills
- Labor regulation
- Economic security
- Policies affecting hiring, wages, and opportunity
Fundamental to the American Dream is the idea that men and women should be able to advance through their own drive, talent, work, and willingness to take a chance.
Public policy can widen those opportunities or narrow them.
Pinpoint advances policies grounded in economic liberty and flexible labor markets. Workers benefit from an economy in which employers compete for talent, new industries create new opportunities, and people are free to move between jobs, build skills, and pursue the work that best fits their abilities.
As the American economy evolves, the country will need a workforce capable of adapting with it. Pinpoint examines which policies help workers and employers meet that challenge and which ones make the labor market less dynamic.