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Lance Izumi Talks About the Lagging U.S. Education System on the Lars Larson
The Lars Larson Show | Lance Izumi
December 17, 2019
PRI’s Lance Izumi joined the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show to share his thoughts on why America is failing behind the rest of the world in education. Recent data from the Program for International Student Assessment, an international study, show that United States students are average in reading and science and below average in math. 30 countries scored higher than the U.S. on the assessment.
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Charles Kesler – Ancient Rome and Modern America
December 16, 2019
This podcast is the fifth and final in the series of joint PRI and Claremont Institute 40th Anniversary Cruise lectures. This lecture titled “Keeping a Republic: Ancient Rome and Modern America,” is by Charles Kesler, Editor of the Claremont Review and a professor at Claremont McKenna College. Prof. Kesler compares and contrasts the Roman Republic with the current state of American democracy. So goes Rome, so goes America?
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The Deep State Will Challenge the New FDA Head
American Greatness | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Jeff Steir
December 19, 2019
Now that the Trump Administration’s new FDA commissioner, Dr. Stephen Hahn, has been confirmed, he’ll find he has one of the most difficult and important jobs in government. The FDA’s purview is wide, regulating pharmaceutical and other medical, food, and vaping products that account for more than 25 cents of every consumer dollar, over a trillion dollars annually.
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Canadian drug imports are a dose of bad medicine
Featured in Real Clear Health | Sally C. Pipes
December 16, 2019
Even if federal and state officials tried to restrict imports to a handful of regulated Canadian pharmacies and wholesalers, many Americans would inevitably turn to thousands of online pharmacies that promise cheap “Canadian” drugs. In 2010, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy reported that 96% of internet drug vendors were non-compliant with U.S. laws or pharmacy practice standards.
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New PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch Tracks Growing Opposition to Medicare for All
Pacific Research Institute | Evan Harris
Consider that a January 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation survey showed that 71 percent of respondents were in favor of the concept of Medicare for All, but support plummeted to 37 percent once voters learned it would eliminate private health insurance or require higher taxes.
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Things Just Keep Going The Wrong Way In California
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
December 16, 2019
Two days before Thanksgiving, financial services firm Charles Schwab announced it was relocating its headquarters from San Francisco to Texas. The Wall Street Journal’s explanation: “The brokerage giant heads for a state that doesn’t punish finance.”
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What’s missing from claims that neonicotinoids are killing bees, birds and fish?
Genetic Literacy Project | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
December 18, 2019
Pesticides continually get a bad rap, much of it undeserved, some of it bizarre. A recently published study from Japan seems to show that neonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”), used around the world to protect crops from insect infestations, are so destructive that even before they were on the market or ever used in farmers’ fields, they were able to cause entire ecosystems to collapse. Sort of like “Back to the Future” meets “Jurassic Park.”
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Everything You Need to Know About Britain, Boris and Brexit – Luncheon and Discussion with Dr. Eamonn Butler
Join PRI for a luncheon and discussion featuring Dr. Eamonn Butler, Director at the Adam Smith Institute of London. Dr. Butler will look at all things Brexit, including the outcomes and possibilities of the December UK elections, the impact of Boris Johnson, and more.
Dr. Eamonn Butler has degrees in economics, philosophy and psychology, gaining a PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1978. During the 1970s he worked on pensions and welfare issues for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy in Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
11:30 Registration
12:00 Luncheon
The University Club
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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Young Leaders Circle: Untangling Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in 2020
PRI’s Young Leaders Circle will bring together a panel of industry experts to discuss blockchain and cryptocurrency. Leaders in academic research, private business, and the regulatory space will examine regulations on blockchain and cryptocurrency, benefits and challenges to the emerging technologies, and look at how the two concepts are being adopted around the world in the free market.
This event is open to all interest levels: whether you’re completely new to blockchain and cryptocurrencies or regularly follow ICOs and ETFs.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
6 p.m. Happy Hour
6:45 p.m. Panel Begins
Neyborly – The Mezzanine
600 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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Young Leaders Circle: How Entrepreneurship Can Bring Low-Income Entrepreneurs Out of Poverty with Dr. Wayne Winegarden
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics and the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, will share challenges and solutions from his new study on entrepreneurship “Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream.”
Winegarden’s study is the second in the Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity which looks for challenges and reforms to boost entrepreneurship. Dr. Winegarden’s policy research explores the connection between macroeconomic policies and economic outcomes, with a focus on fiscal policy, the health care industry, and the energy sector.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
6 p.m. Happy Hour Begins
6:45 p.m. Moderated Interview Begins
University Club
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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