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What We’re Watching – July 6, 2018
Rowena Itchon – Keynes vs. Hayek, Rounds 1 and 2 For my summer reading list, I like to re-read a classic or two. So for my summer video recommendation, here are a couple of classics: Keynes vs. Hayek, Rounds 1 and 2. Fear the Boom and Bust Fight of the ...
California
Tia Boatman Patterson – Addressing California’s Home Affordability Problem
California Housing Finance Agency Executive Director Tia Boatman Patterson discusses the efforts of the self-supporting state agency she runs to help people find an affordable place to live, and gives her thoughts on what should be done next to address the state’s housing affordability and homeless problems.
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What We’re Watching – June 29
Kerry Jackson – A Plea to Work Together Kerry Jackson is watching this recent Ted Talk by Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute. In this stirring talk, Brooks pleads for liberals and conservatives to work together. He asks the rhetorical question – how can we solve problems with so ...
Blog
Pacific Research Institute Responds to Janus Ruling
Scholars at the Pacific Research Institute, the California-based, free-market think-tank, responded to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Janus v. AFSCME case on worker freedom. Kerry Jackson, Fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform “Today’s landmark ruling restores a freedom that should have never been allowed to be ...
California
Special Guest George Gilder on Technologies in the Future
For PRI’s 50th episode, our special guest is George Gilder. We asked him about his views on Silicon Valley (“in the process of having a nervous breakdown”), the threats to innovation (“the world’s $253 trillion debt”) and his view of Basic Income (“preposterous”). And that’s not even the fun stuff. ...
Magazines
Impact Magazine – Summer 2018
DOWNLOAD THE PDF Letter from the President Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking a lot about principles recently. With the way things shift and change in politics and policy these days, one can easily lose sight of the why in the name of the what. The why is this: PRI ...
Commentary
Remembering Dr. Charles Krauthammer
The Pacific Research Institute remembers the life and legacy of Dr. Charles Krauthammer, who passed away on Thursday, June 21. Dr. Krauthammer was a great friend to all of us at PRI, speaking at our annual galas in San Francisco in 2013 and 2016. He said that, “PRI has led the ...
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What We’re Watching – June 22
Tim Anaya – When the Canadians – err British – Burned Down the White House This week, I was in Washington, DC visiting my brother. We took in all of the touristy things, including a nighttime bus tour around the White House and all the monuments. The recent war of ...
California
California May Mandate Solar Panels on All New Homes
California may soon become the first state to mandate solar panels be installed on all new homes, apartments, and condominiums. The California Energy Commission passed a building code regulation requiring all homes constructed in 2020 or later to have solar panels on their roofs, by a unanimous vote on May ...
Business & Economics
Todd Gaziano of Pacific Legal Foundation on Bureaucracies Making Laws
Our guest in this podcast is Todd Gaziano of the Pacific Legal Foundation. As director of the newly created PLF Center for the Separation of Powers, Todd is working on a long-term project to roll back the power of unelected government administrators. Over many decades, Congress has handed more and ...
What We’re Watching – July 6, 2018
Rowena Itchon – Keynes vs. Hayek, Rounds 1 and 2 For my summer reading list, I like to re-read a classic or two. So for my summer video recommendation, here are a couple of classics: Keynes vs. Hayek, Rounds 1 and 2. Fear the Boom and Bust Fight of the ...
Tia Boatman Patterson – Addressing California’s Home Affordability Problem
California Housing Finance Agency Executive Director Tia Boatman Patterson discusses the efforts of the self-supporting state agency she runs to help people find an affordable place to live, and gives her thoughts on what should be done next to address the state’s housing affordability and homeless problems.
What We’re Watching – June 29
Kerry Jackson – A Plea to Work Together Kerry Jackson is watching this recent Ted Talk by Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute. In this stirring talk, Brooks pleads for liberals and conservatives to work together. He asks the rhetorical question – how can we solve problems with so ...
Pacific Research Institute Responds to Janus Ruling
Scholars at the Pacific Research Institute, the California-based, free-market think-tank, responded to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Janus v. AFSCME case on worker freedom. Kerry Jackson, Fellow with PRI’s Center for California Reform “Today’s landmark ruling restores a freedom that should have never been allowed to be ...
Special Guest George Gilder on Technologies in the Future
For PRI’s 50th episode, our special guest is George Gilder. We asked him about his views on Silicon Valley (“in the process of having a nervous breakdown”), the threats to innovation (“the world’s $253 trillion debt”) and his view of Basic Income (“preposterous”). And that’s not even the fun stuff. ...
Impact Magazine – Summer 2018
DOWNLOAD THE PDF Letter from the President Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking a lot about principles recently. With the way things shift and change in politics and policy these days, one can easily lose sight of the why in the name of the what. The why is this: PRI ...
Remembering Dr. Charles Krauthammer
The Pacific Research Institute remembers the life and legacy of Dr. Charles Krauthammer, who passed away on Thursday, June 21. Dr. Krauthammer was a great friend to all of us at PRI, speaking at our annual galas in San Francisco in 2013 and 2016. He said that, “PRI has led the ...
What We’re Watching – June 22
Tim Anaya – When the Canadians – err British – Burned Down the White House This week, I was in Washington, DC visiting my brother. We took in all of the touristy things, including a nighttime bus tour around the White House and all the monuments. The recent war of ...
California May Mandate Solar Panels on All New Homes
California may soon become the first state to mandate solar panels be installed on all new homes, apartments, and condominiums. The California Energy Commission passed a building code regulation requiring all homes constructed in 2020 or later to have solar panels on their roofs, by a unanimous vote on May ...
Todd Gaziano of Pacific Legal Foundation on Bureaucracies Making Laws
Our guest in this podcast is Todd Gaziano of the Pacific Legal Foundation. As director of the newly created PLF Center for the Separation of Powers, Todd is working on a long-term project to roll back the power of unelected government administrators. Over many decades, Congress has handed more and ...
