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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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #120: Trump Versus Antifa
Opinion -Less than a month after declaring Antifa a domestic terror organization, President Donald Trump told the press he intends to designate the group as a foreign terror organization. -
Life, Liberty, Property #119: Trump’s Academic Gambit
Opinion -The Trump administration announced on Wednesday a proposed agreement with American universities to implement campus policy reforms in exchange for preferential treatment in the distribution of federal funding. -
Life, Liberty, Property #118: Another Shutdown Showdown
Opinion -All signs now point toward the Federal Reserve (Fed) beginning a program of lowering interest rates, though cautiously and with no guarantees of continuation. -
Life, Liberty, Property #117: Fed Interest Rate Cut Remains on the Table
Opinion -All signs now point toward the Federal Reserve (Fed) beginning a program of lowering interest rates, though cautiously and with no guarantees of continuation. -
Life, Liberty, Property #116: Young Adults Losing Faith in America, Free Markets, Poll Finds
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #115: Has the Economy Turned the Corner Toward Steady Growth?
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #114: Fiat Money and the Phony Housing Boom
Opinion -Decades of devaluation of the dollar through inflation have created a phony housing boom that's impeding homeownership. -
Life, Liberty, Property #113: Fed’s Consensus Slips as Interest Rates Stifle Economy
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #112: Powell Beats Labor Market
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #111: Interest Rates Are Too High
Opinion -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). -
Life, Liberty, Property #110: Confidence Rises as U.S. Economy Beats Expectations
Opinion -The June inflation number provided a good deal of ambiguity about whether the Federal Reserve is doing right. -
Life, Liberty, Property #109: Shooting for Fairness—but for Whom?
Opinion -A mass shooting in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana over the Fourth of July weekend put the city on edge and politicians under increasing scrutiny. -
Life, Liberty, Property #108: Supreme Court Affirms Constitutional Limit on Courts’ Authority
Opinion -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. -
Life, Liberty, Property #107: Eminent Domain Case Tests Our Understanding of Federalism
Opinion -A New Jersey township’s plan to use eminent domain to seize a 175-year-old family farm has caught the Trump administration’s attention. It is an important case with critical implications about the purpose and conduct of government.