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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

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made a lot of changes to the federal student loan system. One of those changes put a new cap on the amount of loans students in graduate school can take on. Today on the show, we explain the theory behind this change and how it could impact the broader labor market going forward.

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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

While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with risk management.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/risk-uncertainty-profits-and-modern-portfolio-theory

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

Cities like Austin and Atlanta used to top lists of places people moved to looking for relatively affordable places to live. Until, one day, they weren’t that affordable. On today’s show, how a low cost of living is threatened by growth, and how one sunbelt city in Alabama is planning ahead. 

Related episodes: 
Why Americans don’t want to move for jobs anymore 
How to build abundantly 
How big is the US housing shortage? 
The highs and lows of US rents 

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