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Life, Liberty, Property #162: New Orleans Housing Failure Confirms Limits of Government Mandates
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The New Orleans City Council is rolling back an affordable-housing mandate that “failed to produce a single apartment complex since being passed in 2020,” ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #161: For 100 Years, Zoning Has Been Destroying Housing Affordability
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The FOMC is satisfied that the economy is doing well, and their interest rate decision reflects a concern that an expansion of economic activity will spark inflation. I do not believe that ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #160: Is the Fed Pushing the Economy in the Wrong Direction?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The FOMC is satisfied that the economy is doing well, and their interest rate decision reflects a concern that an expansion of economic activity will spark inflation. I do not believe that ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #159: Trump’s ‘Dividend’ Plan Could Work, With One Major Addition
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The complaints have substance: the plan is unworkable in the form in which Trump presented it. It would increase the already terrifying national debt and probably spark much-higher inflation ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #158: Rising Pushback Against the Surveillance State
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Public opposition to data centers has increased by 12 percentage points in just the past four months, with 61 percent now saying they oppose building new data centers ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #157: Data Center Hysteria and the Decay of America’s Political System
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Public opposition to data centers has increased by 12 percentage points in just the past four months, with 61 percent now saying they oppose building new data centers ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #156: The (Current) Limit on Democratic Socialists’ Political Appeal
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Hong’s failure to get past the post in this Democrat primary illustrates a greater problem for the collectivist “democratic socialist” movement. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #155: Hard Facts That Doom Every Proposed Social Security Fix
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -As the United States careens ever-faster toward the day when the Social Security trust fund will run out, now scheduled for 2032, press reports of reform proposals have been arriving with greater frequency and mounting expressions of fear. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #154: The Nonpartisan Case for Punishing Government Program Fraud
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The Trump administration has announced another step in its efforts to identify fraud in government programs and, of equal importance ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #153: Positive Signs of an Economic Turnaround
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Last week’s economic news suggests that the U.S. economy is reforming, moving in a long-term positive direction. The key factor is ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #152: Immigration Driving Up Housing Costs
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Mass immigration has contributed to the rapid increase in the price of housing, I noted in my Heartland Institute policy study on “Housing Affordability: America’s Short-Term Crisis and Long-Term Problem.” A draft working paper from the Federal Reserve confirms that conclusion, with the researchers stating illegal immigration drove 30 percent of the increase in home prices during the years 2021 through 2024, along with 20 percent of the rise in rent prices. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #151: Can Warsh Lead Us Out of the Inflation Trap?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Markets are indicating strong optimism about the U.S. dollar. An article at Unleash Prosperity’s Hotline argues new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin “Warsh Is Slaying Inflation Already.” -
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Life, Liberty, Property #150: Rhode Island Starts Tax Hike Death Spiral
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Rhode Island just enacted a tax increase that will chase the highest-earning households out of the state and ensure revenue shortfalls as long as it remains in place. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #149: Federal Reserve Assumptions Have to Change
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Tying the money supply to something real such as gold would solve the inflation and economic boom-bust cycles. The same is true of allowing the market to create money. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #148: The Bill of Rights and the Rise of Soft Despotism
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -U.S. consumer confidence declined in May in the wake of a sharp rise in inflation expectations and worries about a possible recession. ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #147: Consumer Confidence Declines, Credit-Card Debt Rises
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -U.S. consumer confidence declined in May in the wake of a sharp rise in inflation expectations and worries about a possible recession. ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #146: Are Markets Calling for an Interest Rate Hike?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -As Kevin Warsh takes over as chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed), investors and analysts are expressing much worry about interest rates.... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #145: U.S. Economy Is ‘Bad’ or ‘Terrible,’ Under-30s Say
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -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
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -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
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -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
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -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
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -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
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Libertarians and business interests have been generally aligned with the pro-birthright position but somewhat divided on the issue. -
What Trumpnomics 1.0 Was and What 2.0 Could Be
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Trumpnomics is it's own unique mix of economics values. Darren Brady Nelson breaks down how this has worked for the United States.
