Life, Liberty, Property
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Life, Liberty, Property #145: U.S. Economy Is ‘Bad’ or ‘Terrible,’ Under-30s Say
Young adults across the United States overwhelmingly say that the U.S. economy is currently “bad” or “terrible,” and “we’re seeing the consequences all over America.”
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Life, Liberty, Property #144: Debt-to-GDP Ratio Tops 100 Percent
The federal debt crossed an ominous threshold last week, rising over 100 percent of national gross domestic product …
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Life, Liberty, Property #143: GAO Confirms Enormous Entitlement Fraud
Federal government programs paid out hundreds of billions of dollars of undeserved benefits to criminal organizations and other opportunists over just five years.
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Life, Liberty, Property #142: Trump Administration Appoints Health Care Affordability Czar
Rising woes in the world of private credit are bringing new attention to investment risks. Attention to risk is always a good thing.
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Life, Liberty, Property #141: Tremors in Private-Credit Market Confirm Fed’s Economic Damage
Rising woes in the world of private credit are bringing new attention to investment risks. Attention to risk is always a good thing.
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Life, Liberty, Property #140: Surprising Support for Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Policy
Libertarians and business interests have been generally aligned with the pro-birthright position but somewhat divided on the issue.
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Life, Liberty, Property #139: Fed Keeps Interest Rates ‘Mildly Restrictive, Even Modestly Restrictive’
In his address to the press, Chairman Jerome Powell sounded much more optimistic—or devoted to stomping on any signs of job growth for American workers.
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Life, Liberty, Property #138: Washington’s Millionaires-Tax Doom Loop
Proponents said the tax would hit less than half of 1 percent of the state’s population, about 30,000 households. Soon there will be much fewer such households, you can be sure.
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Life, Liberty, Property #137: Supreme Court Struggles to Balance Process and Justice
The fact that states have long engaged in tax foreclosures does not resolve the question of whether “just compensation” has to mean something other than “fair market value.”
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Life, Liberty, Property #136: Are the Fears About the Economy Justified?
Overall, the U.S. economy is not yet where it should be, though the doom talk today is overstated and politically motivated. What is most damaging about the mismatch between today’s economic myth and reality is the false conclusions about economic policy its advocates send.
