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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. -
SCOTUS’ Thomas Again the Lone Voice of Reason in a Government Overreach Case
Opinion -Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been seated a long time. Since 1991 - thirty-five years and counting. That entire time, he has been almost inarguably its most stringently constitutional and conservative member. -
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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 -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 -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 -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. -
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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. -
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. -
The Economics of Population Decline
Opinion -Declining population or depopulation has emerged after years of warnings about overpopulation. While biologists see benefits from depopulation, some economists fear reduced investment, slower economic growth, and stress to social assistance systems. Is depopulation a cause for alarm? The demographic “transition” refers to a decline in death rates leading to significant population growth and then […] -
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.” -
Heartland Institute Responds to American Homeownership Act
Opinion -‘Both parties need to learn that government intervention does not remedy government intervention’ -
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. -
Greenland and Land Acknowledgements
Opinion -President Trump initially left all options, presumably including military options, open to secure U.S. interests in Greenland. Wars fueled U.S. territorial expansion during the nineteenth century. A peaceful acquisition of Greenland would demonstrate the folly of the progressive left’s “land acknowledgements.” President Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland from Denmark after World War II. Little […] -
About That Divorce
Opinion -Relations between red and blue America continue deteriorating. A national divorce refers to the peaceful dissolution of a country by consent. Contemplating a national divorce as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday might seem sacrilegious, but few leaders seem to care about rebuilding the bonds of trust among Americans. Precedents exist, most notably the 1992 dissolution […]
