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Roger Williams: Exemplar of America’s Soul
Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s…
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What Makes Economics Scientific?
Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they…
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Minor Issues, Major Conversations: Mark Thornton’s Four-Interview Roundup
On this marathon episode of Minor Issues, Mark stitches together four recent interviews for a fast-moving tour of today’s economy: why gold spiked while…
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The Meaning of Revolution
The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the…
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Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance
The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized…
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Trump's 50 Year Mortgage Mistake
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about Trump's FDR-like proposal of a 50-year mortgage and the unfortunate reality that it seems…
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Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals
November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several…
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On Resisting Evil
We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be. Original…
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50-Year Mortgages Won’t Make Housing More Affordable
President Trump has proposed a 50-year mortgage for new homebuyers, ostensibly to make housing more affordable. Actually, this financial instrument will make…
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How to End the Fed
Dr. Jonathan Newman explains why we don’t need a central bank, and lays out a concrete, Rothbard-inspired plan for actually ending the Fed. Sponsored by Andy…
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Rethinking "Sticky Prices" and Monetary Disequilibrium
Dr. Jonathan Newman joins the Human Action Podcast to discuss his recent QJAE article disputing the claim that 'sticky prices' prevent markets from…
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Silver: Manipulation or Fundamentals?
Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story. Big players have gamed markets before…
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Taxes and the Rise of the Modern State
In this lecture from the 2025 Mises Institute Supporters summit, Ryan looks at how the modern state is built on the rapid rise of taxation in recent centuries…
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Dystopia Misdiagnosed: How the Rich Drive Health Innovation
The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted…
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Hobbes’s Accidental Case Against the State
If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons…
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Election Fallout: Is Inflation Radicalizing Our Politics?
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho take a look at this week's off-year elections. Were any of the outcomes a real surprise? Does Mamdami…
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The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It Doesn’t Mean
While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists…
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Trump’s Tariff Power Grab
The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to…
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How to Counter Arguments That Taxation Is Legitimate
Dr. David Gordon explains why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel & Murphy’s “myth of…
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Land of the Free? Government Mismanagement of America’s Open Spaces
Dr. Timothy Terrell explains how the federal government’s vast land holdings breed crowding, decay, and wildfire risk—and why returning land to private owners…
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Why Food Stamp Spending Is Out of Control
Ryan McMaken takes a deep dive on food stamp spending, food stamp recipients, and how Big Ag and other industry lobbyists fight to keep food stamp spending…
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Freedom as a Tonic for Social Conflict
Dr. Shawn Ritenour draws on Mises to show that specialization and trade align long-run interests and raise living standards when prices are guided by sound…
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Is Paying Down Government Debt Bad for the Economy?
Is paying down the federal debt a recession trigger? Bob takes on the MMT claim and checks the record, citing US debt payoffs, Canada’s 1990s reforms, and ECB…
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Nothing Good Starts at the Top
Speaking at the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit, Mark Thornton argues that lasting reform comes from the bottom up, not from political edict. Drawing…
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Jerome Powell's Just Making Things Up
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Jonathan Newman joins Ryan and Tho to discuss this week's Fed rate cut, and to breakdown down Jerome Powell's most recent…
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Recipes with Rothbard: What Chocolate Cake Can Teach About Economics
When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics. Original article…
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Murray Rothbard and World War II Origins
Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today. Original article…
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How Congress Should Reform the Fed
Alex Pollock joins the Human Action Podcast to explain his recent Congressional testimony on the Fed’s growing insolvency and mandate overreach. The Fed now…
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By All Means, Elect Mamdani and Watch His Socialist Laboratory at Work
Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies…
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The Trump Administration Is Lying Us Into Another War
Trump's team is citing the fentanyl crisis to justify its escalations near Venezuela. But virtually all illicit fentanyl is made and smuggled thousands of…
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How Food Industry Lobbyists Keep the Food-Stamp Gravy Train Going
The food stamp program is a way for PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola company to legally rip off the taxpayers. Original article…
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Private Property: The Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty
James Bovard surveys attacks on property rights—from “open-fields” searches and no-knock raids to eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture—showing how each…
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A Brief History of the Enduring American Embargo against Cuba
For more than 60 years, the US government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing…
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No, Tariffs Did Not Cause September's Budget Surplus
September’s fiscal surplus was not thanks to tariff revenue. In truth, it was thanks to Americans paying more in income tax. Tariffs were only 5.7 percent of…
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How to Recognize Critical Race Theory
Despite the change in the White House, critical race theory is still with us, dominating the academic sectors and being ingrained in progressive culture. We…
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Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil
No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians like Donald Trump did not cause the…
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Reading Markets the Austrian Way
Mark Thornton reviews David Howden’s data-driven guide to long-horizon investing in commodities, useful even for Austrians wary of statistics. Mark explains…
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The Myth of the “Robber Barons”: James Hill versus the Crony Competitors
As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his…
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Freedom in Money: Hayek’s Competing Currencies, the Fed, Gold, and Crypto
Alex Pollock explains how monopoly money empowers the state to finance deficits and wars, and why legal tender laws should give way to free choice in money. He…
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Memories of Delray and 30 Years of Mises.org
On this special episode of Power and Market, Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O'Keeffe to talk about the recent Supporters Summit, the legacy of…
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America Hurts Farmers and Discounts China's Soy Imports while Providing a Crutch for Argentina
Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t…
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The Danger of Deflation (Phobia)
Dr. Joe Salerno shows how market‑led falling prices spread growth gains even when nominal wages don’t change. The takeaway: don’t fear natural deflation—fear…
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We Have Not Properly Reckoned with the Economic Insanity of 2020
The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an…
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The Myth of Planned Obsolescence
The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of…
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New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan
“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming…
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What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like?
There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a…
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Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports
In this episode of the Human Action Podcast, Bob unpacks Lerner’s Symmetry Theorem—the classic result that, under tight conditions, an import tariff is…
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How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It
The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later…
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Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation
Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media. Original article…
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Silver’s $50 Moment
Mark Thornton shares a timely conversation from the Liberty & Finance podcast with Elijah K. Johnson. Mark explains why $50 silver is a psychological barrier…
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AI, Automation, and the Human Advantage
This week, Bob tackles growing concerns about artificial intelligence, automation, and mass unemployment. Using the principles of marginal productivity and…
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Monetary Metals 101: How Gold and Silver Work in a Free Market
Mark Thornton lays the groundwork for understanding gold and silver before politics gets involved. Mark explains why monetary metals emerge from market…
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Taxes, War, and the State are Freedom's Biggest Enemies
Ryan and political scientist Joseph Solis-Mullen talk about how taxes, war, and the state are all part of a centuries-old formula for impoverishing the…
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Economics and the Infantilization of Culture
The yearning for a state-controlled system is not born of compassion for others but rather of infantile selfishness. Original article…
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Peace in Gaza, Homicidal Text Messages, and the Future of Obamacare
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at this week's headlines, including the prospects for the Gaza peace deal, blue state…
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The "Acid Rain" Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex
“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political…
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Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?
Bari Weiss’s appointment to head CBS News has brought cries of anguish from the usual suspects on the left and approval from some on the right. But will she…
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Going for Broke
Once upon a time, American firms built with the long term in view, and the government did not try to hinder them. Today, thanks to reckless federal government…
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Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard's Views on Lincoln, Slavery, and Popular Sovereignty
“The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican Acts were monstrous.” Original…
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Chapter 7. Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation
Chapter 7 of Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy Audiobook. Narrated by Bill Anciaux.