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Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's primary online media catalog.
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Why the Fed Had to Raise the Interest Rate
The Fed wants to keep interest rates low so the government can borrow on the cheap. But bond markets are driving up interest rates as inflation isn't going…
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Prosperity Will Return Only When Entrepreneurs Are Free to Act on Economic Uncertainty
Our economic future desperately depends upon entrepreneurs being free to act. Unfortunately, our ruling classes seem to prefer economic chaos. Original…
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Mainstream Economics: Money as Medium of Exchange, Unit of Account, and Store of Value
Mainstream economics does a disservice when students are taught that money is a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account without explaining…
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Has Libertarianism Suffered a Strange Death?
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss a recent article from Daniel McCarthy that both criticizes the irrelevance of libertarianism…
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The Politics of Faking Success
Trump showed how effective it can be to simply declare success and let supporters believe it. Other politicians are taking notes, even as the problems they all…
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California’s New Tire Rule will Result in Higher Costs and More Highway Deaths
The California Energy Commission is mandating that starting in 2029, California drivers must purchase environmentally approved tires that are less safe than…
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Covid Was a Praxeological Test. Too Many Libertarians Failed.
No, covid was not the exception to the rule that liberty comes first. Just because the CDC insisted we give up our freedom for what turned out to be a false…
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Matt McCaffrey Uncovers Frank Fetter's Lost Book
This week, Bob talks with professor Matt McCaffrey about a soon-to-be-published, never-before-seen manuscript by Frank A. Fetter, surveying the history of…
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How War Propaganda Justifies Conscription into Unjust Wars
The drive for military conscription has always depended upon the use of propaganda, since governments cannot make an honest and genuine case for the wars they…
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U.S. Economy on the Brink of Collapse—Oil Shock, AI Bubble & Hyperinflation
Mises Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Mark Thornton joins Lena Petrova to discuss Federal Reserve policy, rising government debt, and the risks of inflation and…
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Government by Consent of the Governed—Later On
We are told that Americans live under a state that claims “consent of the governed,” but when does the government seek our consent for anything? Original…
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Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation
Dr. Mark Thornton presents Hayek's "Choice in Currency," which diagnoses inflation as an ancient superstition revived by Keynes and proposes a radical remedy —…
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The Intellectuals and Socialism
Dr. Joseph Salerno unpacks Hayek's 1949 essay "The Intellectuals and Socialism," which explains why the intellectual class is systematically biased toward…
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The Meaning of Competition
Dr. Jonathan Newman explains Hayek's "The Meaning of Competition," which dismantles the neoclassical "perfect competition" model and recasts competition as a…
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The Non Sequitur of the Dependence Effect
Dr. David Gordon examines Hayek's reply to Galbraith, "The Non Sequitur of the 'Dependence Effect,'" showing why the claim that advertising-created wants are…
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The Use of Knowledge in Society
Dr. Peter Klein walks through Hayek's landmark 1945 essay "The Use of Knowledge in Society," showing how the price system communicates dispersed knowledge and…
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Why the Worst Get on Top
Dr. Jonathan Newman presents Hayek's "Why the Worst Get on Top", a critique of socialism distinct from the calculation and knowledge problems — showing that…
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Will AI Bonds Doom Humanity?
Mark Thornton opens with a recap of inflation, commodity prices, interest rates, and stagnant real wages before turning to “bubble bonds”: the explosion of…
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JD Vance's Doomed Plan for Family Planning
Economist Jeffery Degner joins Ryan McMaken to discuss why government plans to increase the birth rate have never actually worked. But offering to give voters…
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Central Banks No Longer Trust Each Other: The Global Rush To Gold
Dr. Mark Thornton called the housing bubble in 2004. For four years, he was told he was wrong. He now says every paper-dollar asset you own is facing a very…
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9/11 and the Idealized “War on Terror”
Twenty-five years after 9/11, many seek to rehabilitate the War on Terror by appealing to the horror of 9/11, the right to respond, and the ideal of fighting…
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The Real AI Threat
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss what appears to be a coordinated call to regulate AI. Is this a benevolent plea to save…
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Why the AI CEOs Really Want to Be Regulated
The top AI CEOs aren't acting like they genuinely believe their technology will soon cause human extinction. But they are acting like the successful…
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Slavery Was Not the Difference: How Legal Innovations Made America a Superpower While Brazil Stagnated
Both Brazil and the US had slavery in the 1800s, but the US economy flourished while Brazil’s languished. If slavery was the engine for US economic growth, as…
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Price Inflation Has Been above the Two-Percent Target for 65 Months in a Row
The latest reminder of the Federal Reserve's record of failure, which now extends longer than five years, comes with the most recent inflation measure…
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Dr. Mark Thornton: Rigged Markets, Why The Real Bubble Is In Government Bonds & Revaluing Gold
Stijn Schmitz welcomes back Economist and Senior Fellow from the Mises Institute, Dr. Mark Thornton. Dr. Thornton paints a dire picture of the global economy…
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Congress Tries to Replace Anarcho-Tyranny in College Sports with Its Own Brand of Tyranny
In the name of “saving” college sports, Congress steps well past its bounds to micromanage the NCAA. Original article…
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The Crony Capitalists Who Financed the Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin wrote that the capitalists would provide the rope by which they would hang themselves. That certainly seems to be the case with the Bolshevik Revolution…
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Conclusion
By the close of the 1920s, business elites led by Wall Street had secured government enforcement of their cartels across banking, industry, transportation, and…
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Chapter 11. Wall Street’s World Reserve Currency
The war wrecked European finance and opened the door for the dollar to displace the pound. Patrick Newman follows Thomas Lamont and Paul Warburg’s ambitions…
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Chapter 10. Purifying the Competition
Three campaigns waged in the name of public health. Patrick Newman covers the Beef Trust turning federal meat inspection into taxpayer-subsidized…
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Chapter 9. Fighting Over Railroad Regulation
Barred from rate associations after 1897, the railroads formed communities of interest by buying their competitors’ stock—cartels in a disguised form. Patrick…
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Chapter 8. Capturing the Regulations
The Federal Trade Commission’s first chairman institutionalized “advance advice” and uniform cost accounting, letting businessmen define what counted as unfair…
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Chapter 7. A Trade Commission for Industry
After the merger wave of 1898 and 1899, big business wanted relief from antitrust suits and protection from price-cutting. Patrick Newman shows the Morgan…
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Chapter 6. Wall Street’s Central Bank
By the new century the power elite was Morgan, Kuhn Loeb, Baker’s First National, and Stillman’s National City, yet New York’s share of central reserve city…
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Chapter 5. Wall Street’s National Banks
Patrick Newman traces the National Banking System from Salmon P. Chase’s wartime bond sales and initially hostile relations with New York financiers through…
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Chapter 4. The Failure to Monopolize
Beginning with the Morrill Tariff of 1861, Patrick Newman documents protection sought and monopoly repeatedly denied. Market competition kept defeating…
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Chapter 3. Cartelizing the Railroads
Competition among the trunk lines meant lower rates and better service, so the railroads tried pools to stop it—and the pools kept collapsing, because without…
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Chapter 2. Railroading the Nation
A transcontinental railroad was unprofitable on market terms—“1800 miles of railroad through an uninhabited country”—but attractive once Congress supplied land…
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Chapter 1. The Republican Ascendancy
Patrick Newman shows how liberty-minded reformers, once holding the levers of power, were pulled toward favoritism of their own—beginning with Jefferson, who…
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Introduction
Patrick Newman defines cronyism as government intervention that benefits special interests at the expense of the public interest, and argues the corporatist…
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Foreword
Thomas Sargent places Patrick Newman in a tradition of American historians—Charles Beard, Forrest McDonald, Richard Hofstadter, and Murray Rothbard—who…
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Acknowledgements
Patrick Newman describes this volume as the second act in a three-act play, the bridge connecting the country’s founding to the modern America of the present…
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The AI "Threat" is Replacing Covid and "Global Warming"
Get ready to hear a lot about how we need government regulation to ensure that only state-approved, expensive, crony "capitalist" firms are allowed to develop…
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Understanding Entrepreneurship Has Major Implications for Economic Analysis
By ignoring the entrepreneur, mainstream economists are also removing a vital part of economics theory. It is like designing a car and leaving out the engine…
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Foreign Policy Gnosticism: The Appeal to the Black Box of “Our Leaders Know More”
Ignorance is treated as a reason to trust the state rather than a reason to withhold judgment about its exercise of coercion. To assume that the state’s…
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AI and the Future of the University
Dr. Peter Klein asks whether AI will finally disrupt higher education, and argues it won't, because the university's resistance to change isn't about…
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What They Don’t Teach You in Government Schools
Dr. Jonathan Newman exposes the economic myths taught in government schools and shows what students are never told about markets, socialism, and the debates…
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Your Kids Are Already Communists, and College Will Make It Worse
Dr. Mark Thornton argues that America's schools and universities have spent 150 years quietly instilling a collectivist ideology, and that the real problem…
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Don’t Bite the Hand: Why Public Schools Can’t Afford to Teach Economics
Tate Fegley argues that government schools fail to teach sound economics not necessarily out of malice, but because they have no incentive to teach the very…
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Four Secrets the Public Schools Keep from You
Dr. Paul Cwik walks through four "secrets" the public schools would rather you didn't know—and makes the case for full educational freedom. Recorded in…
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Is the Natural Rate of Interest Really Zero? (Answering MMT)
Using Randall Wray's classroom "buckaroo" currency, Bob shows how MMT thinks about money, and the claim that a fiat currency's natural rate of interest is…
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Mark Thornton follows up on last week’s episode by arguing that the Trump administration, Chairman Warsh, and Secretary Bessent are using short-term maneuvers…
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Times Change, Principles Don't
What followed 9/11 was 25 years of systematic destruction of American liberties, and the final destruction of the Bill of Rights, all in the name of "safety"…
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Breaking Bessent
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about new highs in bond yields, why that matters, and whether or not a new round of $5,000 Trump…
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College Sports, LSU, and Judge Shopping: Anarcho-Tyranny Continues
The drama continues in college sports—not on the field, but in the courtrooms—thanks to judges applying antitrust law that does not permit the NCAA to be able…
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The Real Elites vs. The Ruling Elites
Those who become "elites" through the initiation of violence, and through the looting of others, have always been frauds and imposters. Original article…
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Market Theater, Gold, and the AI Bubble
Mark Thornton opens by tracing the Soros-linked circle of Scott Bessent, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Kevin Warsh, arguing that Treasury and Fed officials are…
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The Biggest Bubble Isn’t AI — It’s Government Debt
Mario Innecco speaks with Dr. Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, about the growing risks facing the global economy. We discuss the end of the…
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MMT and the Price Controls That Never Happened
Without established exchange-ratios between a currency and goods, a fiat-token cannot meaningfully serve as a unit of account because it has no referent. The…