California Won't Let Homeowners Insurance Companies Raise Rates, so They're Leaving the State Instead
Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
Thanks to "squatters' rights" laws, evicting a squatter can be so expensive and cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes.
In California, which has a slew of renewable energy regulations, the cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.—and the state still doesn't even get reliable energy.
The Supreme Court supposedly put an end to “home equity theft” last year. But some state and local governments have found a loophole.
Government is "promoting bad behavior," says Sen. Rand Paul. He's right.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to name America's unsung or undersung heroes.
"The city is treating our private property as the city's housing stock."
The proponent of "big hair and small government" explains how to flourish in a global financial universe that is indifferent to the individual.
"The taxpayer must render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, but no more," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.
A win for Geraldine Tyler, who is now 94 years old, would be a win for property rights.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler's case challenging home equity theft.
Taxes and bans on foreign home ownership haven't arrested home price increases where they've been tried. There's no reason to think Canada's policy will be more successful.
"This is very bad for property rights."
Are normal Americans worried about inflation? Jeong says nope, it's a ginned-up outrage because rich people's "parasitic assets aren’t doing as well as they’d like."
Cops can now request access to videos recorded by Ring, bypassing that pesky step of obtaining a search warrant first.
If market-rate wildfire insurance is too expensive for homeowners, maybe that's telling us something about the risks of living amidst pretty tinder.