And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist

and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

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to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Phil Kirpin, principal at

Unleash Prosperity. Phil joins us to discuss what arguably is the number one economic issue

in America today. The prohibitively high cost of owning a home for too many Americans.

Phil, thank you so much for joining us on this extremely timely and urgent topic.

Hey, my pleasure, Matt. Thanks for having me.

You bet. Phil, by the way, is also a nationally syndicated

columnist. You can read him in a lot of different places these days. I believe you're still

chairman of the Internet Freedom Coalition. Is that correct? Yeah, I mean, we haven't done much

with that particular vehicle in a while, but I would say yes. I think it still exists. Yes. And the

author of the great 2011 book, Democracy Denied.

In fact, if we get a chance to on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour,

we'll talk a little bit about that, what Phil was writing about at the time and what the leftists

are saying today about democracy being denied.

I think it's an interesting perspective, lo these many years later.

Let's begin here.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant argued the biggest hindrance for housing is mortgage rates. If the Fed brings down mortgage rates,

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