Jun 22, 2018 | Economics, Housing, Money & Banking
What is the fundamental issue is: monetary central planning – with its embarrassingly awful one hundred year track record with paper monies – or getting government’s direct or indirect hand off the handle of the monetary printing press.
Feb 20, 2018 | Housing, POLITICS
The Crisis is Not Debt Default, But Too Much Government Spending
Nov 10, 2017 | Books, Housing, Money & Banking
The essential moral case for finance that Brook and Watkins present is that finance is good by the standard of human flourishing.
Jan 22, 2016 | Housing
Land prices skyrocket when the supply of land is artificially and drastically reduced, which means that housing prices become astronomical.
Sep 29, 2015 | Economics, Housing
It is no coincidence that housing prices in coastal California began skyrocketing in the 1970s, when building bans spread like wildfire under the banner of “open space,” “saving farmland,” or whatever other slogans would impress the gullible.
Nov 10, 2012 | Housing, Price Controls
Those who benefit from government coercion seldom like it when the gun is turned around and pointed at them. They have no hesitation to demand that government use compulsion for their benefit, but complain when compulsion is directed at them. As an example,... 
Oct 31, 2012 | Housing, LAW
The stated purpose of zoning is to control land use within a community to prevent “incompatible” land uses and to promote planning. Most Americans accept zoning as a “necessary evil” that prevents pawn shops and factories from operating in residential neighborhoods.... Sep 24, 2012 | Housing, Safety
Most people accept building codes as a necessary government intervention. One Website states: Codes provide minimum standards for building construction in order to safeguard the public’s safety, health, and welfare. Another Website states: If we searched we could find... Aug 2, 2012 | Housing, POLITICS
In 2007, I served as a consultant to a group of citizens opposed to an attempt to bring zoning to Hobbs, New Mexico. During that time, I wrote a series of articles that were published in the local newspaper. This is one of those articles. In a referendum, zoning was... Jul 26, 2012 | Housing, POLITICS
In 2007, I served as a consultant to a group of citizens opposed to an attempt to bring zoning to Hobbs, New Mexico. During that time, I wrote a series of articles that were published in the local newspaper. This is one of those articles. In a referendum, zoning was... 
