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The Government Created 30-Year Mortgages to Make Housing Affordable. Today, Housing Is Becoming Unaffordable

Economic PolicyFinancial MarketsU.S. EconomyInterventionism

Blog55 min ago

Government intervened into home mortgages to subsidize home buyers and make home ownership more "affordable." As with most interventions, the results have backfired as home prices and mortgage rates skyrocket.

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The Unknown Reasoner

War and Foreign PolicyOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

Blog12/01/2023

Do governments make “rational” decisions involving interaction with other governments? As David Gordon points out, rationality involves individual decision-making, not collective action.

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The Immorality of Protectionism

Taxes and Spending

Blog12/01/2023

Protectionists are no better than any run-of-the-mill Progressive who wants more taxes on one group in order to subsidize some other group. There's no moral high ground here for the protectionists, just unfounded self-righteousness.

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The Fed Is Draining Our Economy Like Farmers Have Drained Their Aquifers

Big GovernmentEconomic PolicyThe FedU.S. Economy

Blog11/25/2023

America is draining its economy by federal debt in a way similar to how American farms and cities are emptying the nation's aquifers. We cannot sustain these losses much longer.

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Today Is the Best Day of the Year to Rob a Bank

The FedLawMoney and Banks

Blog11/22/2023

Today, the Fed takes a short break from robbing us via inflation and, instead, delivers huge amounts of cash to banks to service Black Friday purchases. The large cash infusions often make banks vulnerable to robberies.

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The United States Needs Its Own Javier Milei

AntipoliticsDemocracyEconomic PolicyWar and Foreign Policy

Blog11/22/2023

While the United States has not fallen as far economically as Argentina, the fact is that the present economic policies are ruinous. We need someone like Javier Milei to speak the truth about what is happening.

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The Legacy of Legacy Admissions Is Not What the Critics Claim

EducationMedia and Culture

Blog11/17/2023

Critics of college legacy admissions claim that the practice is racist and admits undeserving students. The longer-term results of such admissions show why colleges continue to employ them.

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The Taxman Cometh

LibertarianismOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog11/17/2023

Philip Goff wants to solve the why of the universe, but his answers are not always logically coherent, as David Gordon explains.

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