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.
Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story.
As the US economy slowly deteriorates, the government's response is to intervene and to inflate. This does not end well.
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho take a look at this week's off-year elections. Were any of the outcomes a real surprise? Does Mamdami reflect the future of the left? Will affordability bring down MAGA? The roundtable discuss these questions and more.
While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission.
While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani’s electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the US, the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission.
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?
Ryan McMaken takes a deep dive on food stamp spending, food stamp recipients, and how Big Ag and other industry lobbyists fight to keep food stamp spending flowing and increasing.
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.
Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last.
