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Nick Gillespie Talks Politics of Homeowning on Freedom Watch w Judge Napolitano

Nick Gillespie | 2.7.2012 1:59 PM


Last Friday, I appeared on Fox Business' Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano to talk about the politics of home ownership and how it's distorted the economy to bad ends.

The short version: There's no way that the government can guarantee or heavily subsidize a class of assets without it all ending in tears.

Check out this blog post: "If Housing Was Overpriced, Is it a Bad Thing that Fewer Americans Own Homes?"

About 4.30 minutes.

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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