311. Your Wallet, Your Future: Economic Freedom Updates | Weekly Prosperity Pulse #9

This week’s highlights on jobs, taxes, and policy changes.

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Prosperity Pulse!

Thanks for being here as we tackle this week’s critical policy updates! This week's newsletter highlights policies directly impacting your financial well-being, from the implications of the Fed’s latest rate cut and Trump’s election to practical steps for improving housing affordability and eliminating property taxes. Don’t miss my recent interview on NTD News, my testimony on housing solutions, and insights on state-level tax competitiveness. Not yet a subscriber? Join for exclusive content and help champion economic freedom and prosperity!

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Highlights from This Week

What Does the Fed’s Rate Cut and Trump’s Election Mean to You?

• Check out my recent interview on NTD News.

Testimony on Improving Housing Affordability

• Check out my written testimony here and watch my testimony here at time 3:58:40.

Case for Eliminating Property Taxes

• Read my recent commentary at American Institute for Economic Research.

Tackling Housing Affordability

• My latest piece at Texans for Fiscal Responsibility highlights this problem from local zoning and property tax perspectives.

Kansas Legislature Takes Charge of Budget

• Great move by the Kansas Legislature, as I noted in my piece at Kansas Policy Institute.

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What I’m Learning

• New information by the American Action Forum highlights the high cost of regulations by the Biden-Harris administration.

• Blog post at Pelican Institute on attempts to regulate AI.

• Commentary by

  Adam Thierer
  on how the election could influence legislation on AI.

• What is fiscal conservatism?

Books I’m Reading:

• I recently completed Joe Stiglitz’s book The Road to Freedom and wrote a review: Stiglitz provides an interesting book for people to consider many externalities and what to do about them. While he is a progressive with whom I often disagree, I wanted to read this book to get more of his insight into whether I disagreed. I mostly disagree with his view that markets have many externalities that aren’t already priced in by the market and require government intervention. Markets work best. Check it out.

Let People Prosper Show podcast

The Let People Prosper Show features deep discussions on hot topics:

• Episode 121 (Yesterday):
  I interviewed Dr. Pat Horan, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, to explore the role of monetary policy and the Federal Reserve in economic activity.

• Episode 122 (Next Thursday):
  Don’t miss next week’s episode with Dr. Josh Bandoch, Head of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, who explains how free-market capitalism empowers individuals to combat poverty. Drawing from research and personal experience, Bandoch highlights effective poverty solutions, the role of personal motivation in policy, and the power of storytelling. Our discussion underscores capitalism's potential for promoting human dignity, reducing poverty, and expanding opportunities for all.

• Did you miss This Week’s Economy episode 85?

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Bible Verse of the Week

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