Market rigging  The Legislature voted to raise the minimum wage.
The governor said no.  Neither party asks, "Why do we have a
problem in the first place?"  Fifty years ago, the minimum wage
was 75 cents an hour and it paid for reasonable living. Today's
minimum wage won't. Each time we move to raise the wage we argue
"affordability" vs a living wage. However, the prices and
underlying unemployment rate go up even in the years when the
wage isn't raised. What else could it be? Market rigging?
Zoning/planning boards assure "maximizing" housing prices (and
local governments love the higher "tax base"), and the
development is done so that automobiles are required for
transportation. Houses and cars are subsidized by "credit
expansion" that eventually produces multiple mortgages on the
same house and car loans that resemble mortgages. Whence comes
the money? It is created! Create money and throw it into a
market place, the value of the money decreases in relation to
everything else.  Our trade treaties send milli