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Kalshi Culture: How Gambling, Speculation, and Degeneracy Went Mainstream

12/31/2025 Mises Wire Artis Shepherd

As government continues to engage in reckless actions from inflation to starting wars, people develop shorter time horizons, creating social vacuums. Increased gambling and other irresponsible behaviors then fill the void.

Solutions to the Affordability Crisis Will Not Come from Government

12/07/2025 Mises Wire Artis Shepherd

While US politicians are presenting policy prescriptions to make life more affordable, none of them are proposing what really would end this crisis: free markets.

Easy Money Breeds Fraud: The Cases of Tricolor and First Brands

11/02/2025 Mises Wire Artis Shepherd

For the past 30 years, the US economy has bounced from one asset bubble to another. The recent Tricolor Holdings and First Brands bankruptcies are just another example of an economy being pumped up by the Federal Reserve.

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Kalshi Culture: How Gambling, Speculation, and Degeneracy Went Mainstream

12/31/2025 Artis Shepherd

America’s War on Arab Christians

08/06/2025 Artis Shepherd

The recent attack by Israeli setters on the village of Taybeh in the West Bank has brought attention to the conflicts between Israel and the Christian population in Palestine. American Christians who uncritically support Israel should take a harder look at what is happening.

The Bid-Ask Spread in Housing and “Pulte’s Law”

07/09/2025 Artis Shepherd

As the latest housing bubble pops, home sellers are asking for unreal prices for their homes, while buyers are waiting for the prices to fall. Bill Pulte, Trump's Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is demanding the Fed force down interest rates to restart the unsustainable boom.

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