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The 2019 PRI Holiday Book Guide
Tim Anaya
November 27, 2019
To give you some inspiration for your holiday shopping, we present our annual Holiday Book Guide. I asked PRI’s team to share recommendations for their favorite books from the past year. Some of the books are new releases, while others are recent favorites or even classics. There are even handy links to purchase the books online so you can avoid the long lines at the stores.
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Steve Hayward – The Past and Future of American Conservatism
November 25, 2019
This podcast is the second in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. The theme of the lectures was “The Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, and Self-Government. This second lecture, titled “The Past and Future of American Conservatism” was from PRI Fellow and UC Berkeley professor Steve Hayward. He takes the audience through Conservatism’s evolution — from its beginnings in the pre-World War II era to today, and along the way Prof. Hayward makes some interesting and penetrating observations.
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Trump drug pricing proposal would doom future cures
Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
November 26, 2019
That may sound like the art of the deal. But it would result in the development of far fewer new drugs — and would thus snuff out hope for millions of Americans currently suffering from incurable diseases.
‘Medicare-for-all’ is still Dems’ goal – don’t be fooled by candidates’ dodges
Featured in Real Clear Health and Kaiser Health News | Sally C. Pipes
November 26, 2019
Once private insurance companies were eliminated there would be nothing to stop the federal government from raising premiums and taxes and cutting insurance benefits. And we, the American people, would have nowhere else to turn to get needed health insurance.
San Francisco Mayor: Hardest Job in America?
Fox & Hounds | Kerry Jackson
November 26, 2019
Exacerbating the homelessness tensions is a miserable housing crisis. Homes are so expensive in San Francisco that many have been priced out of the market. A low-wage worker, for example, has no chance in the city. Middle class prospects are on the bubble. No major city in the U.S. has a higher median home price. In June, it reached $1.7 million.
A Bearish View on California’s Budget Surplus
Right By the Bay Blog | Wayne Winegarden
November 26, 2019
Take the last downturn as the example. Once the economy fell into a recession, personal income tax revenues and total state government revenues in the 2008-09 fiscal year collapsed by $11.4 billion and by $20.9 billion, respectively. The fiscal problems for the state were even worse than these dire numbers indicate because the state budget was predicated on growing revenues. The result was persistent budget woes for years following the Great Recession.
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