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Historically, it has been very poor manners in Washington to admit that keeping home prices high is a deliberate policy. High prices are not the “unintended consequence” of good intentions. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-are-houses-so-expensive-its-deliberate-government-policy
All children eventually learn that the presents under the Christmas tree come from family and friends, who must pay for them with their own money, and not from Santa Claus. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/more-largesse-santa-claus-trump
Scrooge was never mistreated by his nephew, by Cratchit, or by those seeking charitable donations. Scrooge was always free to refuse them all. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/was-scrooge-victim-christmas-carol
Never forget the Christmas truce of December 1914, when troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/christmas-truce-world-war-i
Father Frost (the Soviet Santa Claus) asks: “To whom do we owe all the good things in our socialist society?,” to which, it is said, the children chorus the reply, “Stalin.” Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/how-soviets-replaced-christmas-socialist-winter-holiday
With employment fundamentals so weak, the real way to increase home sales is to cut prices further. That, of course, is not what sellers want to hear.
