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Freedom News Digest: December 16, 2022 Christmas and the Welfare-Warfare State

Keith Preston
By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
— Adam Smith,
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [1776]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
December 15, 2022

The Fed’s Destructive Guessing Game
As expected, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a point yesterday. It was a drop from the .75 point rate increases that the Fed has been implementing for the past several months.  A big reason the Fed is going slower is the longstanding fear among Fed officials of bringing about another Great Depression by raising interest rates too high and …
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