Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
The Real Reason You Can't Afford a House…or anything else
1 hour 22 minutes Posted Aug 18, 2026 at 10:07 pm.
– The system is rigged, just not the way socialists say
– The same economy priced in dollars, then in gold
– This isn't because you go to Starbucks too much
– What happens to men with nothing left to build
– Every chart breaks in the same year
– Nixon, the French battleships, and the end of gold
– From 20 hours of work per share to 185
– Keynes on how to destroy a country quietly
– The dollar milkshake: it breaks by getting too strong
– Restoring sound money, and the pain it brings
– Rebuilding without central planners
– How my daughter bought her first house at 21
– You are not powerless
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The data says young people were sold one deal and delivered another. "Do well in school, work hard, follow the rules, climb the ladder — and the American Dream is yours." Then the number that makes the lie undeniable: the suicide rate for Americans aged 10–24 rose 62% from 2007 to 2021. Not because they're soft. Because the deal was renegotiated behind their backs — in 1971.
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