How They Engineered the Crisis 1. Housing: Legalized Scarcity by Design The housing crisis isn't some market failure—it’s a government-manufactured shortage. Zoning laws, permitting regimes, and “green” regulations lock down land and choke off new construction. They restrict supply, drive up prices, and then offer state “solutions” like housing subsidies, which only inflate demand further. It’s a feedback loop that keeps you on the rent treadmill while developers with political ties rake it in. Bottom Line: The state created the housing bubble, and now it profits from your pain. 2. Energy: Regulated to Keep You Poor Want cheaper gas, electricity, and food? Then you need abundant, decentralized energy. But the government won’t allow it. Instead, it layers on restrictions, subsidies…

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