Wayne Winegarden
Business & Economics
The High Cost Of The Inflation Reduction Act
The right policy mix to address our current economic malaise is tighter monetary policy and pro-growth tax and regulatory policies. While the Federal Reserve is on the right track for monetary policy, the newly titled Inflation Reduction Act is completely wrongheaded. The tax provisions – such as imposing a minimum corporate tax ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 2, 2022
California
Wayne Winegarden Talks California’s Project Homekey on Andy Caldwell Show
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden discusses California’s Project Homekey and his new study from Kerry Jackson and himself, “Project Homekey Provides No Way Home for California’s Homeless,” on the Andy Caldwell Show.
Wayne Winegarden
July 25, 2022
Business & Economics
Proxy Advisory Firms And The ESG Risk
Warren Buffett presciently noted that “only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq are all now in bear market territory, so the tide has undoubtedly receded. And true to Mr. Buffett’s wisdom, the unsustainability of many fashionable investment trends ...
Wayne Winegarden
July 25, 2022
Blog
Drug Price Controls Are Not the Solution to Another Bad Inflation Report
The July 13th report on consumer price inflation (CPI-U) confirmed what we all already knew – prices have become unaffordable. Consumer price inflation rose 9.1 percent over the last year, which is the fastest inflation rate in 40+ years. The impetus for this current bout of inflation is not mysterious. ...
Wayne Winegarden
July 19, 2022
Commentary
California’s climate lawsuits threaten to raise energy prices and harm consumers
The recent Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. EPA reinforced the commonsense notion that it is the responsibility of our elected representatives, not the courts, to establish our nation’s global climate change policies. If only the states and localities suing the global energy companies, many of which are here ...
Wayne Winegarden
July 14, 2022
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden Talks Consumer Spending, Housing Market Trends with Nasdaq Trade Talks
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics, discusses how macro factors are impacting the housing market and consumer spending with host Jill Malandrino on “Nasdaq Trade Talks”.
Wayne Winegarden
July 8, 2022
Featured
Wayne Winegarden Plan to Let Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices on Scripps National News
In a national TV interview with Scripps National News, Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, says making drug rebates work for patients would more effectively lower patient costs compared to a plan working its way through Congress to let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices. ...
Wayne Winegarden
July 7, 2022
Business & Economics
Rounding Up The Usual Suspects Won’t Alleviate Inflation
Doing his best Captain Renault impersonation, President Biden is trying to alleviate the troubling inflationary environment by “rounding up the usual suspects”. In this case, that means blame a problem that can only be caused by errant government policies on politically convenient targets such as rising drug prices, Russia’s invasion of the ...
Wayne Winegarden
June 23, 2022
Climate Change
Regulating The Environment Through The Securities And Exchange Commission
Apparently, it is not enough for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to simply maintain fair, orderly, and efficient financial markets. The agency is now considering becoming a climate regulator with a new rule whose comment period ends tomorrow (June 17, 2022). That is not how the SEC frames the ...
Wayne Winegarden
June 16, 2022
Commentary
Promote Regulatory Certainty By Reauthorizing UFA
The House passed bipartisan legislation last week that could help reduce costs and ensure continued innovation for the future. While this legislation might not be covered as extensively as other issues, it nonetheless represents meaningful progress. This week, the Senate HELP Committee passed the Senate version, the Food and Drug ...
Wayne Winegarden
June 15, 2022
The High Cost Of The Inflation Reduction Act
The right policy mix to address our current economic malaise is tighter monetary policy and pro-growth tax and regulatory policies. While the Federal Reserve is on the right track for monetary policy, the newly titled Inflation Reduction Act is completely wrongheaded. The tax provisions – such as imposing a minimum corporate tax ...
Wayne Winegarden Talks California’s Project Homekey on Andy Caldwell Show
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden discusses California’s Project Homekey and his new study from Kerry Jackson and himself, “Project Homekey Provides No Way Home for California’s Homeless,” on the Andy Caldwell Show.
Proxy Advisory Firms And The ESG Risk
Warren Buffett presciently noted that “only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq are all now in bear market territory, so the tide has undoubtedly receded. And true to Mr. Buffett’s wisdom, the unsustainability of many fashionable investment trends ...
Drug Price Controls Are Not the Solution to Another Bad Inflation Report
The July 13th report on consumer price inflation (CPI-U) confirmed what we all already knew – prices have become unaffordable. Consumer price inflation rose 9.1 percent over the last year, which is the fastest inflation rate in 40+ years. The impetus for this current bout of inflation is not mysterious. ...
California’s climate lawsuits threaten to raise energy prices and harm consumers
The recent Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. EPA reinforced the commonsense notion that it is the responsibility of our elected representatives, not the courts, to establish our nation’s global climate change policies. If only the states and localities suing the global energy companies, many of which are here ...
Wayne Winegarden Talks Consumer Spending, Housing Market Trends with Nasdaq Trade Talks
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics, discusses how macro factors are impacting the housing market and consumer spending with host Jill Malandrino on “Nasdaq Trade Talks”.
Wayne Winegarden Plan to Let Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices on Scripps National News
In a national TV interview with Scripps National News, Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, says making drug rebates work for patients would more effectively lower patient costs compared to a plan working its way through Congress to let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices. ...
Rounding Up The Usual Suspects Won’t Alleviate Inflation
Doing his best Captain Renault impersonation, President Biden is trying to alleviate the troubling inflationary environment by “rounding up the usual suspects”. In this case, that means blame a problem that can only be caused by errant government policies on politically convenient targets such as rising drug prices, Russia’s invasion of the ...
Regulating The Environment Through The Securities And Exchange Commission
Apparently, it is not enough for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to simply maintain fair, orderly, and efficient financial markets. The agency is now considering becoming a climate regulator with a new rule whose comment period ends tomorrow (June 17, 2022). That is not how the SEC frames the ...
Promote Regulatory Certainty By Reauthorizing UFA
The House passed bipartisan legislation last week that could help reduce costs and ensure continued innovation for the future. While this legislation might not be covered as extensively as other issues, it nonetheless represents meaningful progress. This week, the Senate HELP Committee passed the Senate version, the Food and Drug ...