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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 ... -
Life, Liberty, Property #152: Immigration Driving Up Housing Costs
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #151: Can Warsh Lead Us Out of the Inflation Trap?
Opinion -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.” -
Life, Liberty, Property #150: Rhode Island Starts Tax Hike Death Spiral
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #149: Federal Reserve Assumptions Have to Change
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #148: The Bill of Rights and the Rise of Soft Despotism
Opinion -U.S. consumer confidence declined in May in the wake of a sharp rise in inflation expectations and worries about a possible recession. ... -
Life, Liberty, Property #147: Consumer Confidence Declines, Credit-Card Debt Rises
Opinion -U.S. consumer confidence declined in May in the wake of a sharp rise in inflation expectations and worries about a possible recession. ... -
Life, Liberty, Property #146: Are Markets Calling for an Interest Rate Hike?
Opinion -As Kevin Warsh takes over as chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed), investors and analysts are expressing much worry about interest rates.... -
Life, Liberty, Property #145: U.S. Economy Is ‘Bad’ or ‘Terrible,’ Under-30s Say
Opinion -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.” -
Life, Liberty, Property #144: Debt-to-GDP Ratio Tops 100 Percent
Opinion -The federal debt crossed an ominous threshold last week, rising over 100 percent of national gross domestic product ... -
Life, Liberty, Property #143: GAO Confirms Enormous Entitlement Fraud
Opinion -Federal government programs paid out hundreds of billions of dollars of undeserved benefits to criminal organizations and other opportunists over just five years. -
Some Lessons from Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan: Working at the Fed Is Harmful for One’s Understanding of Reality
Opinion -The founders of the United States had quite a good understanding of the main problems caused by government banks (e.g., “Why Do We Have the Federal Reserve Bank?” by Dalia Marciukaityte). This knowledge was not completely lost in the 20th century. Before becoming one of the longest serving Fed chairs, Alan Greenspan described the reasons […] -
Life, Liberty, Property #142: Trump Administration Appoints Health Care Affordability Czar
Opinion -Rising woes in the world of private credit are bringing new attention to investment risks. Attention to risk is always a good thing. -
Life, Liberty, Property #141: Tremors in Private-Credit Market Confirm Fed’s Economic Damage
Opinion -Rising woes in the world of private credit are bringing new attention to investment risks. Attention to risk is always a good thing. -
Heartland Institute’s 2026 Climate Conference Makes Global News
Opinion -Speech by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, others, showed world that climate realism on the rise -
Life, Liberty, Property #140: Surprising Support for Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Policy
Opinion -Libertarians and business interests have been generally aligned with the pro-birthright position but somewhat divided on the issue. -
Why Do We Have the Federal Reserve Bank?
Opinion -These days, most people assume that a central bank—in the United States that is the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed)—is something that a country has to have. -
Life, Liberty, Property #139: Fed Keeps Interest Rates ‘Mildly Restrictive, Even Modestly Restrictive’
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #138: Washington’s Millionaires-Tax Doom Loop
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #137: Supreme Court Struggles to Balance Process and Justice
Opinion -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.” -
Life, Liberty, Property #136: Are the Fears About the Economy Justified?
Opinion -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.
