Historically, it has been very poor manners in Washington to admit that keeping home prices high is a deliberate policy. High prices are not the "unintended consequence" of good intentions.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Environmentalism Is a Convenient Excuse for Authoritarianism
The economic doctrine of “externalities” has become an excuse for governments to intervene economically in heavy-handed ways, all in the name of “saving” the environment.
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Trump Says US Will Keep Seized Venezuelan Oil and Tankers
President Trump said on Monday that the US will “keep” the Venezuelan oil and two tankers that it seized off the coast of Venezuela, and is escalating a blockade on the country.
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Gallup poll says Jerome Powell is more popular than Donald Trump
The poll shows Powell’s approval rating at 44 percent, compared with Trump’s second-term low of 36 percent.
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The Australian Israel Lobby Is Flat-Out Saying They Want a Ban on Criticism of Israel
Caitlin Johnstone: "Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it."
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Trump renews threat to annex Greenland
The struggle with the U.S. seems to have sparked renewed appreciation for the island in metropolitan Denmark.
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Was Scrooge the Victim in <em>A Christmas Carol</em>?
Scrooge was never mistreated by his nephew, by Cratchit, or by those seeking charitable donations. Scrooge was always free to refuse them all.
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Woodrow Wilson’s Christmas Grift of 1913
Two days before Christmas, 1913, the infamous “creature from Jekyll Island,” the Federal Reserve System, was birthed into our body politic. It has been devouring the economy ever since.
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Thank God for Private Enterprise
It’s difficult and often dangerous to depend on the government. But statists, no matter the problems, will often say government services aren’t fully funded; that almost all these services should be expanded.
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The Roots of Collectivist Thinking
The idea is now widespread that communities or groups exercise a form of collective thought, which can be duly expressed by the leader of the group as the thoughts of the group mind.
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Home Prices and Sales Fall. Can Sellers Count on Lower Interest Rates?
With employment fundamentals so weak, the real way to increase home sales is to cut prices further. That, of course, is not what sellers want to hear.
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Financial Bubbles: How they Make Us Poorer
Financial bubbles, which used to be rare, have become a way of life, thanks to a quarter century of easy money policies from the Federal Reserve System. We need to better understand how bubbles form and why they are so harmful.
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The Essence of Financial Bubbles
Financial bubbles, which used to be rare, have become a way of life, thanks to a quarter century of easy money policies from the Federal Reserve System. We need to better understand how bubbles form and why they are so harmful.
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How the Soviets Replaced Christmas with a Socialist Winter Holiday
Father Frost (the Soviet Santa Claus) asks: "To whom do we owe all the good things in our socialist society?,” to which, it is said, the children chorus the reply, "Stalin."
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Can I Get Some Coffee?
President Trump announced the tariffs aiming at two goals: protecting American producers and the relocation of foreign companies to the US. People have been “protected” by being disallowed peaceful, mutually-beneficial trades with others.
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The Brutality of the US Empire Is on Display in Venezuela
What we cannot do, legitimately, is have the US government go abroad in search of the Venezuelan monster to destroy.
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Unmasking Academia: The State’s Ministry of Opinion
Murray Rothbard properly noted that the predatory state needs its “court intellectuals” to legitimize its predations. American higher education is happy to provide them.
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Looking Back and Forth
Gold is up, bitcoin is cooling, the yield curve turning. 2026 could un-invert the story.
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Inflation and the Intergenerational Housing Rivalry
Instead of market competition, inflation forces young and old into rivalrous competition for housing.
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Combating Wokeness: An Interview with Paul Gottfried
Richard McDaniel interviews Paul Gottfried, getting his perspective on wokeness and other shenanigans and hijinks that are coming from modern American higher education.
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