Life, Liberty, Property
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Life, Liberty, Property #117: Fed Interest Rate Cut Remains on the Table
All signs now point toward the Federal Reserve (Fed) beginning a program of lowering interest rates, though cautiously and with no guarantees of continuation.
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Life, Liberty, Property #116: Young Adults Losing Faith in America, Free Markets, Poll Finds
A majority of young voters want a socialist to win the 2028 presidential election, and more than three-quarters want government to nationalize major U.S. industries, a new poll from The Heartland Institute and the Rasmussen group has found.
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Life, Liberty, Property #115: Has the Economy Turned the Corner Toward Steady Growth?
The latest numbers from the BLS indicate a growing economy, with gross domestic product rising at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter.
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Life, Liberty, Property #114: Fiat Money and the Phony Housing Boom
Decades of devaluation of the dollar through inflation have created a phony housing boom that’s impeding homeownership.
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Life, Liberty, Property #113: Fed’s Consensus Slips as Interest Rates Stifle Economy
The Federal Reserve (Fed) has kept interest rates high this year, even though “growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year,” as the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) statement admitted two weeks ago.
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Life, Liberty, Property #112: Powell Beats Labor Market
Two days after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced the central bank’s decision not to reduce interest rates, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced bad news about the U.S. economy.
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Life, Liberty, Property #111: Interest Rates Are Too High
The U.S. economy appears to have begun a recovery this year toward more-natural and productive conditions after years of near-zero interest rates imposed by the nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve (Fed).
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Life, Liberty, Property #110: Confidence Rises as U.S. Economy Beats Expectations
The June inflation number provided a good deal of ambiguity about whether the Federal Reserve is doing right.
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Life, Liberty, Property #109: Shooting for Fairness—but for Whom?
A mass shooting in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana over the Fourth of July weekend put the city on edge and politicians under increasing scrutiny.
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Life, Liberty, Property #108: Supreme Court Affirms Constitutional Limit on Courts’ Authority
Within a flurry of highly consequential and groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Friday’s ruling in Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Casa, Inc., et al. stands out as a truly historic event.