Source: The Daily Economy
by Laura Williams
“Trillions in hidden distress and deferred losses are emerging as borrowers run out of time and options. America’s debt reckoning has begun.” (06/22/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/borrowed-time-the-extend-and-pretend-economy-must-end/
Source: NBC News
“The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to pass a sweeping housing affordability [sic] bill aimed at lowering costs, putting Congress on the brink of a rare bipartisan victory in President Donald Trump’s second term. … The legislation, which would make it easier to build homes and slap limits on Wall Street investors’ buying up houses, now goes to the House, which hopes to vote on it in the next few days. Then, it would go to Trump’s desk to be signed into law. … The legislation would approve a series of funding and grant programs for constructing new homes. It would slash red tape and empower local governments to expedite reviews to build more housing. And a key section titled ‘Homes Are For People, Not Corporations’ would restrict any ‘large institutional investor’ from buying single-family homes.” (06/22/26)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“During my favorite period in history — around 1870 to 1910 — the standard of living of the American people skyrocketed. Suddenly, poor people were going from rags to riches in one, two, or three generations. In fact, some poor people were becoming multimillionaires. Real wages were soaring — and not because of inflation because there was no inflation. Multitudes of European immigrants were flooding into America to get in on the action. New inventions were coming into existence every day. The world had never seen anything like it. And everyone in the world marveled at what was happening. But why? Why the United States and not some long-established foreign country? The answer lies in what happened about a century before — in 1776, when two revolutionary concepts were introduced to the world — and then in 1788, when the U.S. Constitution was ratified.” (06/22/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/06/22/americans-discovered-how-to-end-poverty/
Source: The Hill
“House lawmakers announced a bipartisan deal on a package for protecting [sic] kids [sic] online on Monday, months after negotiations on digital and social media regulation fell apart between the two parties. … The KIDS (Kids Internet and Digital Safety) Act includes portions from the landmark Kids Online Safety Act, dubbed KOSA, which aims to hold social media companies accountable for the alleged harms their platforms cause for minors and young kids.” [editor’s note: Censors always screech that their proposed restrictions are “for the chilllllllllllldren,” but we know better, don’t we? – TLK] (06/22/26)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5934266-bipartisan-deal-kids-online-protection
Source: What Then Must We Do?
“The Hows and Whys of Operating in the Private, with Common-Law Trust Solutions.” (06/22/26)
Source: The Hill
by William S Becker
“The possibility that Democrats will control the next Congress keeps improving, as the Republican majority capitulates to President Trump’s erratic and corrupt behavior. However, Democrats should be more transparent about what they would do with their power. So far, they seem to have followed Napoleon’s dictum, ‘Never interrupt an enemy when he’s making a mistake.’ It hasn’t won them much respect. More than 40 percent of voters are unhappy with both political parties. If Democrats intend to save democracy and civilized society, they will need control of the Senate as well as the House. They should make a stronger case than ‘We’re not Trump.'” (06/22/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5932081-restoring-faith-democracy-congress/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Tal Fortgang
“Overturning democratically enacted laws based on vague notions of liberty does not promote democracy.” (06/22/26)
https://lawliberty.org/substantive-due-process-is-still-antidemocratic/
Source: NDTV [India]
“A UK lawyer who led volunteers to clean up a heavily polluted river in East London is now being probed and could face a prison sentence for doing the cleanup without official permission, The Guardian reported. Paul Powlesland, who is an environmental campaigner, spent 10 days in late February organising a community effort on Alders Brook, a tributary of the River Roding in Barking. Alongside the River Roding Trust, volunteers removed around 200 bags of litter, silt, weeds, and branches from a 250-metre stretch that had reportedly become choked and stagnant. The media outlet suggested that the cleanup worked, as within days, locals reported fish, dragonflies, herons, and reed beds returning to the revived section. … Within a week of the cleanup, Environment Agency investigators visited the site and sent Powlesland a letter saying the group was under investigation for ‘unpermitted works’ in breach of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.” (06/22/26)
Source: AI Summer
“Robert Wright on the global implications of powerful AI.” (06/22/26)
https://www.aisummer.org/p/robert-wright-on-the-global-implications
Source: Cato Institute
by Jeremy Lott
“Andy George, star of the YouTube channel How to Make Everything, spent $1,500 over six months to make a chicken sandwich from scratch. And by ‘from scratch’ I mean growing vegetables, milling wheat, milking a cow, and slaughtering a chicken. The result was … not great. ‘It’s not bad. That’s about it: It’s not bad,’ he judged after taking a few bites of the sandwich. … George thought of his chicken sandwich as an experiment in self-reliant living. It was that, but he was also getting a crash course in global supply chains, price signals, and spontaneous order.” (for publication summer 2026)
https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2026/i-chicken-sandwich