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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #135: The Great Battle Behind the Trump Tariff Case
Opinion -The majority’s decision accords with the Court’s recent attention to its “major questions” doctrine and precedents, an ongoing effort to clarify the constitutional separation of powers under which the federal government is supposed to operate ... -
Life, Liberty, Property #134: Make Housing Affordable Again: Unlock the Supply Side
Opinion -[A]lthough some of the ideas Trump has offered are quite good, others would cause more government interference in the housing market and would not benefit those who wish to buy or sell a house. -
Life, Liberty, Property #133: Is Inflation Already Below 1 Percent?
Opinion -The consumer price index (CPI) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is currently more than three times as high as the Truflation number, Crowdfund Insider notes. -
Life, Liberty, Property #132: A Potentially Historic Central Bank Reform
Opinion -Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, is seen as a safe choice for Fed chair because he is more hawkish on the U.S. dollar than any of his recent predecessors. -
Life, Liberty, Property #131: The Fraud Is Worse Than You Ever Imagined
Opinion -U.S. taxpayers have been victimized by at least $36 billion and possibly as much as $3 trillion in fraud through federal government entitlement programs since 2020, an investigative report by The Center Square states. The higher number is far more than most sources have suggested in the past. -
Life, Liberty, Property #130: Will Economic Improvement Affect the Midterm Vote?
Opinion -With all this good news, the regime media are desperately trying to spin it to cast doubt on the (conclusively proven) value of market-empowering reforms. Newsbusters reports on a typical example. -
Life, Liberty, Property #129: Minneapolis ICE Obstruction: ‘Resistance’ Is Now Open Rebellion
Opinion -The shooting of a driver apparently attempting to escape from ICE agents and striking one of them with her SUV in Minneapolis is an appalling event. -
Life, Liberty, Property #128: 2025 Breakdown
Opinion -The events of the years 2020 through 2024 cast enormous doubt on the competence and decency of American government [and] all the nation’s other institutions. The past year accelerated that shattering of illusions. -
Life, Liberty, Property #127: Is There No Escaping the Entitlement Trap?
Opinion -The failure of both the Democrat and Republican plans for extending or partially replacing the enhanced Obamacare subsidies last Thursday shows just how rare and difficult it is for politicians and taxpayers to escape the entitlement trap. -
Life, Liberty, Property #125: Trump’s Pivot Could Make Health Care Affordable Again
Opinion -Trump’s statement was surprising because it marked a pivot toward a new perspective on health care reform: cash as king. That new approach could make health care affordable again. -
Life, Liberty, Property #124: Solving the Affordability Problem
Opinion -Support for socialism among young Americans is increasing in reaction to the high cost of housing and other essentials, reports a new poll by The Heartland Institute’s Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center and Rasmussen Reports. -
Life, Liberty, Property #123: New York State of Confusion
Opinion -“Mr. Mamdani is asking for a lot,” report Grace Ashford and Benjamin Oreskes at The New York Times. Mamdani will need enormous tax increases to cover his ambitious plans. -
Life, Liberty, Property #122: WSJ Article Finds Sanity in Trump’s Economic Policies
Opinion -It is interesting that The Wall Street Journal published a very fair and sophisticated analysis of Trump’s economic policies last week. -
Life, Liberty, Property #121: Government Shutdowns and Political Polarization
Opinion -The ongoing government shutdown, now in day 20, lays bare the increasingly acute political polarization of the United States.
