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Legitimate Care or a Tax-Fed Racket? Mental Health Care for Adolescent Girls
The federal government has poured billions of dollars into the mental health industry, and the result seems to be even more diagnosed mental illnesses with no…
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The American Government's Shameful Economic Warfare Against Cuba
Cuba’s economy is collapsing in large part because the US government is engaged in illegal and immoral economic warfare against it. Original article…
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What Leads to Violent Populism?
As government grows and people on most sides of the political debates demand government punish their political enemies, we are seeing an increase in political…
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Kurdistan’s Liberty: A Consequence of Its Pre-State Condition?
From a Misesian and Rothbardian perspective, can the absence of a unified and centralized state, under certain conditions, create greater space for political…
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How Party Politics Fueled the Militarization of Race Relations
Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments…
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The Polish “Golden Liberty” and the Myth of Multicultural Equality
The free market isn’t an entity that exists in a vacuum, but a social condition that exists under a specific cultural strand that respects individuality and…
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We Needed Higher Oil Prices
On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton makes the counterintuitive case that higher oil prices early in the Persian Gulf conflict might have reduced the…
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Why Socialism Fails
Dr. Jonathan Newman discusses the evolution of socialism and the roots of modern socialist movements with KPNW Radio host Bill Lundun.
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Beyond the Usual Response: Dismantling MMT’s Accounting Claim
This week, Bob does a deep dive on the accounting argument at the heart of MMT, as a teaser for his chapter in the Mises Institute’s forthcoming book…
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The Special Interests that Fuel the American Empire
The people making foreign policy are not disinterested servants of some objectively identifiable “national interest.” They are people and interest groups that…
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Trump Is Right to Lift Diesel Sanctions on Russia. He Should Go Further
Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel may provide Americans a little relief from high energy prices. The same economic logic applies to the thousands of other…
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Why the Fed Can’t Stop the Next Crisis
Mark Thornton joins Sound Money Matters to discuss how runaway government debt and inflation undermine working families—and how gold and silver could help…
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Gold’s Warning: Government Debt and the Next Market Bust
Mark Thornton joins Wall Street Bullion to discuss what gold and silver reveal about declining confidence in the dollar, how government debt is squeezing the…
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The Black Box of Government Secrets
From new wars to vaccine mandates, we're told to trust the government because the government supposedly has special knowledge inaccessible to mere ordinary…
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The Empire Has No Clothes
Mark Thornton examines the collapse of trust in Washington as government debt, monetary inflation, and foreign wars undermine America's standing at home and…
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The Great Social Security Ponzi Scheme
On this episode of Power and Market, Patrick Newman joins Ryan and Tho for a discussion on Social Security, generational economic tensions, and the latest…
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Wage Growth Wiped Out by Rising Inflation
New price inflation data from the federal government shows that rising prices are outpacing wage growth yet again. Overall inflation is broader and bigger than…
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Do Institutions Matter? Taking Another Look at the Claims of Daron Acemoglu
Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu writes that western colonialism of African countries has permanently fixed their institutional direction. This ignores what…
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Mark Thornton: Gold, Silver's Next Leg — This "Engine" to Drive Prices?
Dr. Mark Thornton shares his outlook for gold and silver, laying out the factors that have been weighing on prices and commenting on what may kick off their…
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You Are the Collateral, Forty-Three Cents on the Dollar
Keynesians claim that government debt is no problem because “we owe it to ourselves,” as though owners of US debt don’t care if they are repaid or not…
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China’s Economic Miracle Has Run Out of Road
The temptation to think of China as an economic juggernaut needs a reality check. While China’s government-dominated economy has many impressive building…
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The Tragic Path of New Keynesianism
Robert Hall and Michael Woodford certainly deserve the Nobel memorial prize. Their work has had a substantial impact, yet significance is not soundness…
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Mises at 145: His Greatest Contributions
To mark Ludwig von Mises's 145th birthday, Bob reviews the contributions that put Mises in the running for greatest economist of all time.
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Natural Law Principles in the Conservative Tradition
A conservatism that does not recognize the efficacy of natural law is no conservatism at all. Original article…
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Don't Blame Interest Rates for Falling Home Sales
Mortgage rates are at historically normal levels. They are not "too high." On the other hand, home prices are too high after years of subsidy from artificially…
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World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
Against historians who treated the war as the death of progressive reform, Rothbard argues it was the culmination progressives had wanted all along. He traces…
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War Collectivism in World War I
Rothbard’s account of the war economy as a cartel run by the men it regulated. He traces the Council of National Defense and the War Industries Board, whose…
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Despite the real damage the Trump administration is doing to the economy, its cheerleaders in the Cabinet continue to insist all is well. This is beyond…
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Violent Populism
Mark Thornton examines the rise of political violence in America, drawing on Robert Pape’s Our Own Worst Enemies and its warning that political violence has…
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How Social Security Really Works
The only way to fund Social Security is with current tax dollars, inflicted on current workers and families. There is no pot of money somewhere that current…
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Home Sales: "High" Interest Rates Are Not the Problem. High Prices Are.
There is a simple way for housing markets to adjust to the new realities of higher interest rates. Prices need to come down. That's how markets are supposed to…
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America's Socialist Real Estate "Market"
Ryan McMaken welcomes Mises Institute Senior Fellow Alex Pollock, a longtime expert on real estate finance, for a discussion on how Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac…
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“Socialism to Me”: Definition by Wishful Thinking
Many socialists define socialism by their ideal goals rather than the process—the expansion of the taking mechanism of the coercive state. Original article…
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The Invisible Heroes of Our Tradition
We often remember the thinkers who defended liberty when its prospects looked bleak, and for good reason. But we should also remember the people who supported…
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When Debt Math Breaks: The Fed, Inflation, and What Comes Next
Could the U.S. national debt and rising Treasury yields force the Federal Reserve into a new round of money creation? Dennis Tubbergen examines the growing…
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Mark Thornton: Higher Rates Are Coming — Gold & Silver Could Be the Winners
Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute joins Darrell to discuss declining trust in government, rising interest in Austrian economics, and why he believes the…
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Repeal the Jones Act
Contrary to propaganda from unions and the maritime industry, the Jones Act creates hardships and is helping to drag down the US economy. The only proper…
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Still the State's Greatest Enemy
Lew Rockwell revisits Justin Raimondo's great biography of Murray Rothbard. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/still-states-greatest-enemy
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US Debt Crisis Is Entering A Dangerous New Phase
Dr. Mark Thornton warns that surging long-term interest rates could expose deep vulnerabilities across the US financial system. He argues that government…
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Equality Before the Law Does Not Mean Equality of Subjective Feelings
For more than a century, the Supreme Court has tried to interpret equality before the law in different and conflicting ways. While the law can divide people…
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Libertarian Realism as Foreign Policy
“Libertarian Realism” in foreign policy is based upon the interests of those who actually make policy decisions, as opposed to discussing abstract ideals of a…
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The Future of the Military Draft
European politicians keep pushing for conscription and more recruits. Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost discuss how the French Revolution gave us modern military…
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Government Should Liquidate Itself
Government agents claim they are protecting us from enemies, foreign and domestic. If that is the case, then the best thing these agents can do would be to…
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Social Security Is Just a Transfer Payment from Workers to Retirees
There is no "trust fund" or contract. Social security is nothing more than a scheme to take money from current wage earners and hand it over to others. It is…
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Why Does Anyone Still Take Socialism Seriously?
Socialism's failures are well-known, but true believers abound that insist that this time we can make it work. The question is why anyone still believes in it…
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Market Coiling
Mark Thornton examines whether the precious metals market is coiling after last year’s push, this year’s correction, and months of volatility driven by war…
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Why Our “Populist Moment” Keeps Failing
Populists have spent the past decade rebelling against a political system they correctly recognize as rigged. But they keep focusing on its surface-level…
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The Bond Market Is Flashing a Warning Nobody in Washington Wants to Fix
Dr. Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, joins Julia La Roche to explain why the bond market is the pivotal story right now. The 10- and…
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Capitalism and the Free Market with Dr. Jonathan Newman
Dr. Jonathan Newman, author and Mises Institute Research Fellow, joins the Church and State podcast to help us understand capitalism and the free market. Are…
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Conservatives: Was Ronald Reagan a Coward and Traitor?
If we’ve been at war with Iran for 47 years, Ronald Reagan was a coward and a traitor. To be consistent, mainstream national conservatives using such language…
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Mises the Man
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho toast to Mises's 145th birthday by discussing his life and legacy.
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Modern Monarchy Is State Privilege, Not Private Property
Norway’s new monarch may prove to be an effective leader, but we are reminded that his hereditary privilege is being financially supported by involuntary…
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Rethinking the US Constitution
Does defending liberty require challenging the laws Americans have long been taught to revere? Dr. Wanjiru Njoya joins Benjamin Boyce to discuss…
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The Continuing Relevance of Rothbard’s Foreign Policy
While he was living, Murray Rothbard saw issues of war and peace as being fundamental to a free society. Nothing has changed since he made that declaration…
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Why the AI Rush, Rising Bond Yields, and the Gulf Point to a Bust
Paul Buitink of Reinvent Money interviews Mises Institute economist Mark Thornton on AI, debt, and the Middle East. Thornton sees the AI build-out as an…
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Every Man a Slave? Huey Long as a Model for the Wrong Kind of Populism
J. D. Vance raised a few eyebrows invoking Huey Long as a populist. The problem is that the populist from people like Long and Bernie Sanders is that it is…
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The 1787 Constitution as Counterrevolution: America's Thermidorian Reaction
One of the most important and aspects of Murray Rothbard's work on the American Revolution is his framing of the Constitutional Convention as a…
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How Conflicting Interpretations of Dred Scott Undermine State Sovereignty
The 1857 Dred Scott case remains one of the most controversial Supreme Court decision in US History. However, overlooked is the fact that it elevated federal…
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Debt, War, and the Tangled Web
Mark Thornton opens with Sir Walter Scott’s famous “tangled web” line, using John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and Richard Cantillon’s response to frame today’s…
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Wildfires and Collectivism: Why They Are Related
As state control over forests and brushlands continues apace both in Spain and the US, the dangers of wildfires grow worse. Environmentalists, naturally, blame…