March home sales drop to their slowest pace since 2009
Sales of previously owned homes in March fell 5.9% from February to 4.02 million units. That’s the slowest March sales pace since 2009.
The Italian state still won’t make good on its promises to fund NATO.
Won’t make 2% NATO target. The American taxpayers in no way benefit from a military alliance with Italy. Time to leave NATO.
New president of Cleveland Federal Reserve will not be voting to cut rates
It’s a good start, but the Fed should never cut (or raise) rates at all. It should stop manipulating interest rates altogether. Anything else is just central planning.
No, Powell Is Not “Keeping Interest Rates High”
There really is no reasoning with Trump fanboys when it comes to the reality of his policies. They will spin anything and everything to portray Trump‘s blatant anti-freedom and anti-market policies as secret crypto-libertarianism. It’s all 1000-D chess, you see.
The Deserving End to the Post-War Order
After the tongue lashing President Zelensky received in the Oval Office by President Trump and JD Vance, European and American establishment leaders were infuriated to say the least. But the most surprising thing that came out of the meeting was the reaction of European leaders; they have decided to take action without the approval of the American president.
Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, nonetheless it has energized American progressives and other environmental true believers.
Stop All Federal Funding of Universities
Shower Heads Likely Going to Supreme Court
The first article in Jeffrey Tucker’s Bourbon for Breakfast is “The Bureaucrat in Your Shower” from 2006. Although I worked side-by-side with Jeffrey at the Mises Institute, I had no idea American showers had become, in President Trump’s terms, “weak” until a glorious cascade of water came from a shower head in Salamanca, Spain.
REAL ID: Phony Security, Real Authoritarianism
Those who hoped the second Trump administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law.
