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Fraud at the Fed, Smithsonian, and DC Council
On this episode of Power and Market, the roundtable talks about a new brewing scandal involving the Fed, revisits the conversation on nationalizing Washington…
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Trump’s DC “Takeover” Is Missing the Point
Few really understand why these blue cities are crime-ridden. It’s not merely a lack of resources or even progressive ideology. At the root of the problem are…
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Stuck in Jackson Hole
As central bankers descend on Jackson Hole for their annual gathering, Mark Thornton explores the history, politics, and pageantry of the world’s most…
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Five Myths About the History of Political Thought
In his important lectures on the history of political thought, historian Ralph Raico examined five myths that many still believe about classical liberalism and…
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Trump's DC “Takeover” and the Lessons of the OKC Bombing
William L. Anderson joins Tho and Connor this week to discuss Trump mobilizing federal agencies to clean up the crime-ridden city of DC and his recent book…
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Trump Is Spending Taxpayer Money at Record Levels
A new July report shows Trump and the GOP Congress have joined forces to drive up federal spending to the highest levels since covid. The federal debt also…
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Every Year is 1939 to the War Hawks
According to the neo-conservative war hawks, every so-called enemy is the Next Hitler and every year is 1939. The failure to seek new conflicts abroad is…
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How Private Banks Can Create Money, But Not Like the Fed Can
Bob explains the mechanics of modern banking and how liabilities and assets on bank balance sheets differ from popular assumptions. He shows how interest rates…
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More Thoughts on the BRICS and Gold versus the US and the Dollar
The US and its Western allies may scoff at this challenge, but it only became possible due to high-handedness (to use the kindest word imaginable) and outright…
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You Can’t Yell “Chicken Jockey” in a Crowded Theater (Except When You Can)
The hackneyed argument for government regulation of speech -- yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater -- has always been a red herring. As Murray Rothbard wrote…
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Tariffs Won’t Spawn Good Trade Deals
The media is spinning President Trump‘s “trade deals” as a “victory” for the White House. Yet, when we break down these “deals” into their particulars, we find…
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The Ambiguous Nationalism-Patriotism in Brazilian Politics
In both cases, the use of nationalism and patriotism by Brazilian governments reveals a recurring strategy: appealing to national pride to divert attention…
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The Oklahoma City Bombing: A Lesson in Government Lawlessness
After the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI rolled out the same "lone nut" narrative about who did it. However, much evidence exists to show that FBI…
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The Trump-Putin Meeting: How We Got Here
The disheartening and frustrating fact is that Russia is in a much stronger negotiating position now than they were earlier in the war, when Western officials…
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Etatism, Protectionism, and the Demand for Lebensraum
Having warned of the rise of national socialism and having fled the German army's march into Austria, Ludwig von Mises was in an excellent position to analyze…
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The Silent War for Latin America: How the Foro de São Paulo Subverted Liberty from Within
From seminary classrooms to Supreme Courts, a network redefined justice, democracy, and freedom in the name of social control. Many goals of the Foro de São…
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The Trump-Putin Meeting: How We Got Here
When presidents Trump and Putin meet this Friday, the political and military landscape is much different than it was when war broke out more than three years…
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Harry Truman: Founding Father of the National Security State
Following World War II, President Truman helped produce the modern national security state by creating the Central Intelligence Agency. Only later did Truman…
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You Created Jobs for Robots?
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/you-created-jobs-robots
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The Meaning of Coercion in Hayekian Philosophy
How do we define liberty? Hayek saw it as the absence of most (but not all) coercion, but that depends upon how one defines “coercion.” Murray Rothbard…
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Can Econometric Models Fulfill the Role of an Economic Laboratory?
Mainstream economists claim that they can use econometric models to emulate human action and, thus, create an economic laboratory. These models, however…
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Jamaica’s Beaches and Property Rights
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/jamaicas-beaches-and-property-rights
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Will Jamaica Become a Republic?
Long a constitutional monarchy with ties to Great Britain, many in Jamaica are looking to end the old relationship and become a republic. But is this movement…
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Why Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Supermarkets Won't Feed NYC
Bob takes on a proposal for New York City to run its own grocery stores, dismantling the historical myths, economic fallacies, and rhetorical tricks behind the…
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Capital Consumption
What happens when a society consumes its seed corn? What is capital consumption, and why does it matter? In this episode, Mark Thornton examines how inflation…
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Equality under the Hayekian Rule of Law
What do we mean by equality? F.A. Hayek believed that equality under law and the socialist belief of material equality were opposed to each other. Furthermore…
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US Travel Restrictions for Cuba Violate the Freedoms of Americans and Cubans
A relic of the Cold War, the US embargo and travel restrictions to Cuba violate American freedoms and they accomplish nothing to end Cuba's communist regime or…
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Why We Need Austrian Economics
Economist Joseph Salerno, an expert on the Austrian School, money, and methodology, joins us to talk about what makes the Austrian School of economics…
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Reintroducing the Levellers
Before the American Revolution, there were the Levellers, who sought liberty during the English Civil War. While their influence on the American colonists…
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Inflation by Design: How Keynesian Dogma Undermines Capitalism
In most of the world, inflation is no longer an exception, it is the rule. Official inflation targets of 4 percent, 5 percent, or even 6 percent per year have…
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We Should Not Apologize for Businesses Being Profitable
In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up For Business by Onkar Ghate and Dan Watkins. While…
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The Last Day of Barter and Questions for the First Day of Chartalism
In examining the Austrian Regression Theorem of Money, Joshua Mawhorter takes on the Chartalist/MMT claim that government gives money its value. The…
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Tariffs on India, Redistricting Battles, and a Possible Trump-Putin Meeting
The Power and Market group looks at the redistricting fight, tries to make sense of Trump’s trade deals, and discusses the possible meeting between Putin and…
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The European Miracle: How Contractual Politics and Divided Power Gave Birth to Western Prosperity
How did Europe move from a collection of impoverished city states and kingdoms to a prosperous state of affairs? Europeans learned the value of contracts…
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Can the BRICS Nations Lead Us to a Better World?
There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a…
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Scholars and Schemers: How the Left Ruined Higher Education
One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call…
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The Threats of AI Come from the State
Artificial Intelligence is advancing, but people often fear it for the wrong reasons. AI is not a threat in itself, but rather becomes a threat when the state…
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America’s War on Arab Christians
The recent attack by Israeli setters on the village of Taybeh in the West Bank has brought attention to the conflicts between Israel and the Christian…
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Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not…
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No Matter Who Is President, Don't Trust Government Data
Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect. Original…
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Anarcho-Capitalism: The Nine Most Important Objections
"Anarcho-Capitalism is good in theory, but it would never work in the real world." That is a common objection to A-C, but is it correct? What are the…
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From Bad to Worse, Irish Rent Control
Apparently, Ireland's government has not learned any lessons from rent control disasters elsewhere. Thus, the Irish will have to learn this hard lesson and…
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Jeff Bezos’s Yacht: Driver of Economic Activity
A yacht—like any good exchanged on the free market—represents countless value-maximizing exchanges and represents an industry that employs thousands of people…
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The Complexity of Historical Narratives
Understanding any era of history requires the ability to view complex things. However, people often employ simple narratives as their historical guides, which…
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The Fed Says It Is "Data-Driven." But the Data Isn't Any Good.
What use is the Fed's supposed devotion to being "data-driven" when the data itself is unreliable and the Fed is basing its policies on data that is thoroughly…
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How Does Money Acquire its Value?
Thanks for modern Keynesian economics, most people believe money gains its value from the government that issues it. Money's value, however, is historically…
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How JFK and the CIA Gave NYC Zohran Mamdani (and Obama to the US)
In an attempt to compete with the Soviet Union by bringing future elite political leaders from Africa to study in US universities, Sen. John Kennedy and the…
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A Thunderously Bad Deal: Oklahoma City’s Crony Arena Tax
Oklahoma City will be building a new arena for the 2025 NBA Champions Thunder. Not surprisingly, the taxpayers will be the ones carrying most of the financial…
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Responding to Richard Werner on Banking
Bob and Jonathan Newman respond in detail to Richard Werner’s highly discussed interview with Tucker Carlson. They examine Werner's claims about credit…
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The Great Precious Metal Premium Conspiracy
Why do gold and silver coins often cost more than the spot price, and why do those premiums seem to disappear when you try to sell? On this episode, Mark…
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Austrian Perspectives on Social Justice
Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way…
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The Origins of FDR’s Teutonophobia
It was no secret that President Franklin Roosevelt hated Germany and all things German. Heavily influenced by Silas Marcus MacVane. FDR embraced MacVane's…
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The Fed and Our Stagnating Economy
Dr. Jonathan Newman and Mises Summer Fellow, Jonathan Yen join Ryan to cover the Fed's latest policy meeting, the awful new jobs report, and rising debt…
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Tanenhaus and God at Buckley
The long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr. is hardly worth the wait of thirty years. David Brady, Jr., reviews it, saving our readers the pain of…
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Jefferson Davis von Hayek?
While Hayek did not write directly about the American Civil War, some of his writings provide insights on the conflict. Original article…
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Why Governments Burned Money
While it is true that colonial era governments sometimes burned paper money after receiving it in the form of taxation, why they burned the money is for…
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Rothbard: The Constitution Was a Coup d'État
Rothbard took the American Revolution to be mainly libertarian in its inspiration, but he contends that the libertarian impulses of the Revolution were…
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MMT Is Wrong about the History of the Origins of Money
Not only are modern monetary theory (MMT) cultists dishonest about the role of money, they also are dishonest about money‘s history. By taking issue with Carl…
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Yes, Virginia, There IS a Deep State—and It Is Worse than You Think
We like to think of the “deep state” as a conspiratorial entity. In reality, the term describes much of what the federal government does in broad daylight…