Connor O'Keeffe

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How to Actually Solve the Affordability Crisis

11/19/2025 Mises Wire Connor O'Keeffe

Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what they are and how to fix them.

50-Year Mortgages Won’t Make Housing More Affordable

11/11/2025 Mises Wire Connor O'Keeffe

President Trump has proposed a 50-year mortgage for new homebuyers, ostensibly to make housing more affordable. Actually, this financial instrument will make housing more costly and do nothing to address the root of this entire problem: the artificial housing shortage.

Trump’s Tariff Power Grab

11/04/2025 Mises Wire Connor O'Keeffe

The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain consistent or fall in line behind the president?

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Jobs Numbers, Dick Cheney, and Thanksgiving Turkey

11/20/2025 Tho Bishop Ryan McMaken Connor O'Keeffe

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the latest jobs number data, what it means for the affordability crisis, the legacy of Dick Cheney, and Thanksgiving favorites.

How to Actually Solve the Affordability Crisis

11/19/2025 Connor O'Keeffe

Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what they are and how to fix them.

Trump’s 50 Year Mortgage Mistake

11/13/2025 Tho Bishop Ryan McMaken Connor O'Keeffe

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about Trump's FDR-like proposal of a 50-year mortgage and the unfortunate reality that it seems to be one of the only actual policy ideas Republicans have left to "address" affordability.

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