Always and everywhere, the regime loots productive members of society to benefit corporate cronies, interest groups, and key voting blocs. The result is taxes, inflation, regulation, and war. The Loot and Lobby Podcast takes a closer look at how this happens, and who’s on the losing side.

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The Fed promises a soft landing, but the fact that the Fed now plans to start cutting interest rates is one of the strongest recession signals we can get.

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Powell: More Easy Money Is Coming Soon

The US will add another $2 trillion to the total debt this year, and the US is now spending a trillion of your dollars on interest per year. There is no end in sight.

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Feds’ Runaway Deficits Are Here to Stay

We already knew recent jobs reports—as far as the establishment survey is concerned, was based largely on made up numbers.

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Federal Jobs Report Slices Total Jobs in New Revision

Price inflation is never caused by greed. It's always caused by a growing money supply. The money supply has grown big-time since 2020, and now we pay a lot more for food and housing.

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Rising Prices Are Caused by Monetary Inflation, Not Greed

The total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. Moreover, the new job growth is almost all in part-time jobs.

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America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago

Europe has no countries that offer “birthright citizenship” anymore. The US and Canada are rare exceptions. Most countries that still have it are countries with net out-migration like Mexico.

Additional Reading

“Birthright Citizenship Isn’t Real” by Ryan McMaken: https://mises.org/power-market/birthright-citizenship-isnt-real

“Why Birthright Citizenship Is Rare In Europe” by Ryan McMaken: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-birthright-citizenship-rare-europe

“Don’t Confuse Immigration with Naturalization“ by Ryan McMaken: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dont-confuse-immigration-naturalization

“The Problem with the Arbitrary Line between Legal and Illegal Immigration“ by Ryan McMaken: https://mises.org/power-market/problem-arbitrary-line-between-legal-and-illegal-immigration

“There Is No Such Thing as Settled Law“ by Ryan McMaken: https://mises.org/mises-wire/there-no-such-thing-settled-law

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The World Is Getting Rid of Birthright Citizenship

David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing. Americans should know how FDR’s presidency led to one disaster after another.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bursting-bubble-was-fdr

Bursting the Bubble that Was FDR

As Congress scrambles to extend emergency subsidies to keep Obamacare afloat, it can be tempting to view the bill that made healthcare less affordable as a total failure. But that wasn’t the true purpose of the ACA. It was always meant to prop up the faltering crony healthcare system.

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Obamacare Was Not a Failure

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down the latest FOMC meeting, the real takeaways from Powell's Fed talk, and the continuing realities of Obamacare.

Trump is Winning Over the Fed

Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same kinds of assets earlier generations procured. The result is inter-generational conflict.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-interventionism-and-intergenerational-resentment

Inflation, Interventionism, and Intergenerational Resentment

Mark Thornton argues that interest is a core price that coordinates time, investment, and growth, and that the Federal Reserve has turned it into an administered number. Mark warns the long-run trend may be turning: bigger states and debts, weaker anti-inflation ideology, and aging populations imply longer, higher for longer. What are the implications? Keep that 2% Covid-era mortgage, expect poor long-bond returns and lower real equity performance, and look for commodities to fare relatively better. Gold’s surge shows some investors already see the shift.

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Longer, Higher for Longer

Data shows that the marriage rate and the homeownership rate have been closely connected for decades. Historically, more marriage means more home buying, but government intervention has made buying a home much harder. 

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Modern Marriage and the Homeownership Rate

For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done is protect farmland.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/farmland-protection-policy-act-crisis-politics-and-quiet-socialization-land

The Farmland Protection Policy Act: Crisis Politics and the Quiet Socialization of Land

President Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/obamas-powerpoint-death-parade-led-trumps-venezuelan-killings

Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings

The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First Amendment had almost nothing to do with it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-religious-freedom-america-was-founded-privatization-and-decentralization

How Religious Freedom in America Was Founded on Privatization and Decentralization

In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood that in a free society, inequality is inevitable, and it is something we must accept.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-hayek-rejected-merit-based-equality

Why Hayek Rejected Merit-Based Equality

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