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Alex Pollock, an expert on Federal Reserve policy, joins us to talk about how the Fed has backed itself into a very bad financial corner, and there is no painless way out.

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June's job growth was hailed in the media as proof of a strong economy. Except there's a problem: fully half of these new jobs were government jobs. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/half-junes-job-growth-was-government-manufacturing-jobs-fall

The American Revolution wasn’t a polite disagreement with Britain. It was a people-powered upheaval that shattered empires, inspired global revolutions, and rewrote the rules of liberty.

Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/was-american-revolution-radical

As housing prices have skyrocketed in Ireland, the government did what governments do all too often: impose rent controls. Such interventions into the housing market have created downstream effects that continue to encourage even more intervention.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/emphasizing-mirage-downplaying-reality

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/why-phrase-jewish-state-propaganda

Britain‘s Labour Party won an overwhelming victory at the last election, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already following the script of Labour when it was run by communists. Already, a large number of wealthy taxpayers have left the country for lower tax havens.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/labour-party-undermining-british-economy

Central planning thwarts Iran’s economy. Many Iranian government officials blame their nation’s economic demise on Western countries sanctions and not their policy choices.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/irans-central-planning-policies-harm-its-economy

After more than fifty years of U.S. government-sponsored housing finance, Why has home ownership not increased and why are houses unaffordable?

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/after-50-years-us-government-sponsored-housing-finance-why-are-houses-so-unaffordable

Voters in last week‘s Democratic Primary in New York City had to choose between a socialist and a crony capitalist. They chose the socialist. Fifty years ago, Establishment politicians drove the city into de facto bankruptcy. A new generation of political elites are doing the same.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/half-century-after-new-york-citys-fiscal-collapse-citys-politicians-have-learned-nothing

The democratic establishment is upset that socialist Zohran Mamdani beat their candidate, Andrew Cuomo, in New York City’s mayoral primary. But the blame for socialism’s rising popularity lies mostly on their own shoulders.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/establishment-democrats-created-conditions-socialist-victory

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