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We Are Measuring Inflation All Wrong: Non-Housing Inflation is Very Low

by Alan Reynolds | May 31, 2023 | The Economist, zNewsletter

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures changes in housing costs in ways that change slowly and arrive too late. Studies from the BLS, Federal Reserve Banks and prominent economists find lags of 12-18 months before changes in rents and/or house prices finally get...

All Housing is Still Affordable Housing: “Seen and Unseen” Edition

by Michael Munger | May 22, 2023 | Residential Investor, zNewsletter

A little more than a year ago I wrote a piece in this space called “All Housing is Affordable Housing.” The claim was that the essential step toward reducing the housing shortage was to make it legal to build new affordable housing. I did an estimate of the break-even...

So Why Aren’t We Paying Down the National Debt

by Robert E. Wright | May 12, 2023 | The Professor, zNewsletter

If you believe the media hype, a storm awaits America. The US government will have to fight off neo-Nazi religious fanatics, massive climate change, financial armageddon, mass species extinction, alien invasion, dollar dominance collapse, Russia and/or China,...

Secession is here: States, cities and the wealthy are already withdrawing from America

by Michael J. Lee | Apr 26, 2023 | Political Insider, zNewsletter

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. She has plenty of company on the right, where a host of others...

The myth of voting with one’s wallet

by Max Gulker | Apr 26, 2023 | Golden Oldie, Political Insider

Originally published September 2020. Do Americans “vote with their wallets?” This near-ubiquitous cliche seems at first to pass the test of common sense. Why wouldn’t people vote for the candidates under whom they’ll do the best financially? A wealthy voter should...

The myth of voting with one’s wallet

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