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Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's primary online media catalog.
Episodes
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Looking Back and Forth
The Minor Issues year-end episode: what 2025 really taught us and what 2026 may bring. Mark Thornton revisits tariffs, inflation, metals, and interest rates…
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Inflation and the Intergenerational Housing Rivalry
Instead of market competition, inflation forces young and old into rivalrous competition for housing. Original article…
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Why We Hate Thomas Hobbes
Ryan and Josh Mawhorter talk about how Thomas Hobbes, even nearly 400 years later, remains a popular spokesman for almost limitless state power. In fact, by…
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The Death of DOGE and the Triumph of the Establishment: A Review of 2025
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor reflect on what they view as the biggest stories and themes of the year. Don't miss your chance to…
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Austrian Economics: Your Ultimate Survival Toolkit for the Financial Reset
Connor O’Keeffe joins Rob Kientz on The Freedom Report for a wide-ranging conversation on Austrian economics, government power, and why today’s affordability…
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November's Weak Jobs Report Pushes the Fed Toward More Monetary Stimulus
If employment reports continue to show growing economic stagnation, calls for more monetary inflation and government spending will only grow. Original article…
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The Next Economic Downturn Will Be Here Soon Enough
The US economy is hooked on easy money and artificially low interest rates. Huge credit expansions are not “stimulating” the economy; they are destroying it…
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What Happened to Climate Change?
Only a couple years ago, climate change was a major political issue. Now it’s strangely absent from public discourse. Why did this happen? Because, at least…
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The Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve
Mark Thornton joins Scott Horton to discuss the state of the economy, the boom-bust cycle, and why anybody—left, right, and center—who cares about the…
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Why Hayek Rejected Merit-Based Equality
In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however…
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Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings
President Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama. Original article…
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Indoctrination Wars: Taking Back Control of What Your Kids Actually Learn
Homeschooling isn’t just about math lessons and reading charts. It’s about who gets to shape how your kids see the world. Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Cheryl…
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How Religious Freedom in America Was Founded on Privatization and Decentralization
The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First Amendment had almost nothing to do…
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Eric Weinstein’s Challenge to Mainstream Mathematical Economics
Bob uses clips from his recent interview with Eric Weinstein to explain why Weinstein thinks gauge theory can fix how economists measure the cost of living…
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Risk, Uncertainty, Profits, and Modern Portfolio Theory
While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial…
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The Farmland Protection Policy Act: Crisis Politics and the Quiet Socialization of Land
For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t…
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Longer, Higher for Longer
Mark Thornton argues that interest is a core price that coordinates time, investment, and growth, and that the Federal Reserve has turned it into an…
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Modern Marriage and the Homeownership Rate
Data shows that the marriage rate and the homeownership rate have been closely connected for decades. Historically, more marriage means more home buying, but…
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Inflation, Interventionism, and Intergenerational Resentment
Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same…
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Trump is Winning Over the Fed
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down the latest FOMC meeting, the real takeaways from Powell’s Fed talk, and the continuing…
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Bursting the Bubble that Was FDR
David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing…
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Obamacare Was Not a Failure
As Congress scrambles to extend emergency subsidies to keep Obamacare afloat, it can be tempting to view the bill that made healthcare less affordable as a…
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Elon Musk Claims Money Will Become Irrelevant. Is He Right?
Elon Musk recently claimed that artificial intelligence will make money itself obsolete. He needs to read the literature of Austrian economics. Original…
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Early Innings for Gold, Late Stage for Fiat
In this special mid-week episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton joins Julia LaRoche for a wide-angle tour of the macro landscape, and why gold’s surge is a…
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Gen Z's Economic Disadvantage and What They Can Do About It
Dr. Mark Brandly examines what’s genuinely hard and what’s overstated about Gen Z’s economic situation, arguing that inflation, regulation, and a bloated…
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The Causes and Cures for Gen Z's Economic Illness
Dr. Jeffery L. Degner explains how an “inflation culture” reshapes marriage, adulthood, and family life for Gen Z and contrasts it with a path of courageous…
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The Siren Call of Right-Wing Progressivism
Connor O’Keeffe explains why the New Right’s economic populists have adopted a progressive myth of “laissez-faire gone wrong,” and instead shows how a century…
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What Does the Fed Mean To You?
Mises Senior Fellow Alex J. Pollock explains how the post-1971 “Nixonian” paper-money world makes the Fed both the engine of inflation and a prop for an…
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Why Banning Hate Speech Is Evil
Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification. Original article…
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The Intra-Austrian Debate over Milei and the Central Bank
This week, Bob walks through two related debates: Hoppe’s criticism of Argentina's President Milei for not immediately closing Argentina’s central bank, and…
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The Government Is Lying About Inflation
Inflation isn’t an economic metric—it’s a political tactic. When governments lie about inflation, they’re not miscalculating; they’re stealing from you. Mises…
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The K-Shaped Economy
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton takes apart the media’s “K-shaped economy” cliché. He explains the divergence the Austrian way: Cantillon…
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Why Does Trump Want War with Venezuela?
The US regime is gearing up for another war. Get ready for another regime-change disaster like we got in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. Be sure to follow the…
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John Mearsheimer and Europe's Bleak Future
This week Ryan and Zachary Yost take a look at international relations scholar John Mearsheimer's claim that Europe faces a bleak future as the United States…
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The Unjustified Conflict: Grant’s Memoirs on the Mexican-American War
The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who…
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War Drums for Venezuela and the Financialization of College Football
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss military escalation with Venezuela, more troubling jobs data, and how college football…
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The Lane Train (And the Rest of College Football Madness) Has Been Fueled by Easy Money
The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college…
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Metals, Black Swans, and the Next Bust
In a special midweek episode of the Minor Issues podcast, Mark Thornton appears on Palisades Gold Radio with Stijn Schmitz. Mark argues that gold’s surge isn’t…
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Zohran Mamdani’s Socialism Flunks Basic Economics
New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics…
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Contagion
Mark Thornton dissects “contagion” hype and argues it’s not a market pathology. He shows why, in a free market, failures reallocate customers, labor, and…
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Thanksgiving: A Celebration of Domestic Life
For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that's really about family fun and eating a huge meal. Original article…
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The Great Depression: An Austrian Reply to WIRED
Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting its claims on lax regulation, Hoover’s alleged inaction, the…
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Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Free Enterprise
The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once…
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How 50-Year Mortgages Turn Home Owners into Renters
50-year mortgages are likely to increase the likelihood of more "owners" becoming underwater and walking away from their mortgages. This will lead to more…
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Families Are the Key to Building Alternatives to the State
From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households. Original…
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Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Birth of American Free Enterprise
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism. Original…
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No, You're Not Hurting the Economy by Saving Money
As the economy worsens, expect to see more articles from legacy media about how saving money is actually bad for the economy. It's an old Keynesian myth. Be…
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US Trade Deficits: Blame Nixon, Not China
Dr. Robert Murphy explains why America’s chronic trade deficits trace to Nixon’s 1971 gold exit—not China—and how a popular reading of Triffin’s “dilemma”…
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The Tyranny of Phony Civil Rights
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya explains how “phony civil rights” expand state power at the expense of self-ownership and property, and offers a conservative-libertarian…
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Crusoe: the Man, the Myth, the Legend
Dr. Jeffrey Herbener explains why “Crusoe economics” isn’t a caricature but the indispensable starting point for economics and liberty—built from action…
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Interest Is Not the Marginal Product of Capital
Bob revisits capital and interest theory to show why the textbook result “interest = MPK” only holds in a one-good world, and why in actual markets the…
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The Seven Deadly Economic Sins
Mark Thornton traces seven headline “problems” back to one engine: monetary inflation. Drawing on Austrian insights, Mark explains how new money distorts…
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Minarchism: The Worst Kind of State Idolatry
Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.” Original article…
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Jobs Numbers, Dick Cheney, and Thanksgiving Turkey
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the latest jobs number data, what it means for the affordability crisis, the legacy of Dick…
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Is the Left Trying to Destroy the Family?
Appearing on the John Curley Show, Ryan McMaken examines how policy—not culture-war slogans—undermines the American family. He points to marriage penalties in…
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Government Intervention, Not BlackRock, Is To Blame For The Housing Crisis
The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place. Original article…
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Why I Won’t Be Mourning Dick Cheney
Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more. Original article…
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How to Actually Solve the Affordability Crisis
Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what…
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Origins of the Welfare State in America
We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two…
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The Road to De-Civilization: Inflation and the Moral Erosion of Society
Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself. Original…