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On October 6, 2026, the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy hosted "What’s the Matter with California?", a conference exploring the socioeconomic challenges shaping California, including housing affordability, energy policies, regulatory structures, and economic trends.
Assessing California's Regulatory Structure: Too Much Deadweight Effect?
Featuring multiple speakers and discussions, the event explored key challenges facing California, including housing affordability, regulatory structures, energy policies, and broader economic and social trends.
Recent Events
Free Markets Are An Answer. What's the Question?
John H. Cochrane
Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
The US-Australia Relationship and the Future of the West
Tony Abbott
Australia's 28th Prime Minister
Finding Place in an Era of Loneliness: Keynote Conversation
Grace Olmstead,
Author, Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind
Class Session with Vice President Mike Pence
Mike PenceFormer
Vice President of the United States