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The Economics of Medical Waiting Rooms
"Hurry up and wait" is often the reality of medical care. We shouldn't be surprised to know that long lines and government intervention go together. Original…
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The Establishment’s “Principles” Are Fake
The Biden administration, and the political establishment more broadly, is scrambling to ram through policies that a majority of voters just voted against…
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The Nation’s Reading Instruction Disaster
Much of the failure of American schools is due to the adherence to a flawed system of teaching students how to read. Homeschoolers often don‘t seem to have…
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“Personnel Is Policy” Means the Rule of Law Is Dying
Those carrying out government directives are even less bound by law than they were a few years ago, and talk about new bureaucrats is beginning to resemble the…
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USA's Worst Three Presidents
On January 3, 2025, Tom DiLorenzo joined Tom Woods for a chat about Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Watch the Mises Institute's…
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The Myth of Social Justice
On January 18, 2025, Wanjiru Njoya and Tom Woods discussed Hayek's critique of "social justice." The original episode is available at…
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Lawrence McQuillan Explains the Policy Inferno Behind the California Wildfires
Lawrence McQuillan from the Independent Institute joins Bob to delve into the regulatory failures and mismanagement behind the wildfire crisis in California…
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The Price of Beef
In the US, the price of hamburger meat ended 2024 near a record high of $5.60 per pound. Is there a magic wand to solve the problem of high beef prices, as…
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No, Climate Change Is Not Causing California’s “Insurance Crisis”
A major reason the wildfires in LA last week were so destructive is because of how the government intervenes in the home insurance market. Now as the industry…
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Why We Need "Just War Theory"
Ryan McMaken and 'Crisis' magazine editor-in-chief Eric Sammons examine how many Christians pay too little attention to the true costs of war. Ryan and Eric…
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The Realities of the Biden Economy
On January 14, 2025, Tom DiLorenzo appeared on The Schilling Show. The original episode is available at…
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The Cultural War in Economic Science
The challenge facing economic science is to counter the reactionary counterrevolution by states and governments that smother voluntary cooperation and free…
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Can Trump Save the Dollar?
While the US dollar still is the world‘s “reserve” currency, its abuse by the Federal Reserve and federal government has weakened it precipitously. While…
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Dred Scott, Politics, and the “Living” Constitution
Some legal “experts” are claiming that the Supreme Court‘s infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision is still used in current law. That, of course, is nonsense. In…
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Progressivism and the Murder of a Health Insurance CEO
Progressives are openly cheering the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. However, it was progressive legislation that created this healthcare crisis in the…
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Real Democracy Can Only Be Freedom
Democracy is the watchword with the ruling classes, yet a democratic political system does not protect individual freedoms. Indeed, democracy often has become…
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Slavery—Cronyism, Opportunity Cost, and Deadweight Loss
A modern misconception of antebellum slavery is that it “built the country.” Actually, the institution of slavery, economically speaking, was a deadweight loss…
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The Missing Secret
Modern academics are relentless in trying to find any nuances they can from the works of Karl Marx, but they miss the larger issues with his work. Marx was…
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The Second Trump Term and the “Sanctions Industrial Complex”
Washington has wielded the sanctions weapon against nearly a third of all nations on earth. It is time to rethink these policies, and one hopes the incoming…
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Trump’s Economic Policies: The Good, The Bad, and the Uncertain
President-elect Trump has promised changes in economic policies. How well they work and how they will affect us remains to be seen. Here is a look at proposals…
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Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents
Lincoln, FDR, and Wilson were by far America’s worst presidents because of their shared penchant for dictatorship, corruption, lawlessness, attacking…
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The Flaws of GDP Accounting Explained
Bob looks at the misconceptions and misuses of GDP accounting, explaining why this widely accepted metric often paints a misleading picture of economic health…
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My Cuban Vacation
Cuba was once a famous vacation destination for Americans. Although we can now travel to Cuba, most Americans have been deprived of various forms of trading…
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Politicians Won’t Solve Our Spending Problem Unless We Make Them
Politicians respond to pressure. If we want them to actually carry out the cuts they claim to stand for, it’s up to us to provide that pressure. Read the…
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Book Review: The Age of Debt Bubbles
The world is awash in debt bubbles, but politicians continue to spend, which requires even more central bank intervention—and more bubbles. Max Rangeley has…
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Critical Race Theory and Racial Polylogism
Long before the term "Critical Race Theory" was coined, Ludwig von Mises already was critiquing what he called "racial polylogism," which claims that what…
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Employed Workers Dwindle and Full-Time Jobs Fall as the Fed Readies More Easy Money
In November, employed workers flatlined yet again as full-time work dropped for the tenth month in a row. Naturally, the Fed plans interest rate cuts. Original…
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Marx’s Misanthropy
Marx is often portrayed as motivated by love of the working class, but, starting from the time he was a university student, he displayed contempt and hatred…
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Minimum Wage Laws Can’t Repeal the Laws of Economics
A new study at UC Berkeley claims that California‘s new $20 minimum wage has had no adverse economic effects. If only that were true. Original article: Minimum…
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Paul Krugman Rides into the Sunset
After spending 25 years as a columnist for the New York Times, Paul Krugman is finally retiring from that position—25 years too late, if one wishes to be…
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Slash Military Spending: “Defense” Budgets are Bigger than Ever Before
Even though the Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row, defense spending is now 60 percent higher (in real terms) than its old Cold War peak. Original…
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What Has Government Done to Our Money?
The Mises Institute is giving away copies of Murray Rothbard's classic, What Has Government Done to Our Money? and it will change how one sees our nation's…
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Why Homelessness Keeps Growing
Ryan McMaken and historian Christopher Calton take a look at why homelessness is rising and why politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom are only…
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Atomic Salvation: Did the Atom Bombs Save 500,000 to 32 Million Lives?
The US went to war 83 years ago today with Japan‘s attack on Pearl Harbor. It ended with Japan‘s surrender after US bombers dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima…
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De-Bamboozling the Critical Race Theory of Court Intellectuals
There finally is pushback against Critical Race Theory that has infected higher education and most of our other institutions. Unfortunately, CRT concepts are…
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Federal Power and Statist Racecraft
In the post-Civil War South during Reconstruction, federal troops attempted to impose their will in part by pitting recently-freed slaves against southern…
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New Austrian Insights
It should be clear from the articles in this book that the Austrian School is thriving. Per Bylund has rendered a great service in bringing the scholarship in…
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Self-Described “Austrian” Is New Leader of UK Conservative Party: Should Kemi Badenoch Give Us Hope?
In the aftermath of its recent election debacle, Britain's Conservatives have selected Kemi Badenoch as their new leader. Badenoch describes herself as an…
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The Keynesian Liquidity Trap Fable
A central doctrine of the Keynesian system is the “liquidity trap” in which consumers hold money in anticipation of higher interest rates. The act of holding…
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Want to Cut Federal Workers? Just Cut Spending.
These days, most federally-funded workers are “private” contract and grant workers. These jobs will quickly disappear if we‘re serious about spending cuts…
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William Rawle and Secession
William Rawle was a well-respected lawyer, legal scholar, an abolitionist, and a believer in the right of states to secede. He described this in A View of the…
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Why Smart People Are Rightly Confused About Tariffs
Replacing the income tax, protecting American workers, serving as a negotiating tool, reducing the national deficit, reducing national debt, and more. We're…
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Why Government Relief Spending Only Makes the Recession Worse
Bob walks through diagrams from Hayek's famous LSE lectures to explain the Austrian view of the boom-bust cycle. The Diagrams Referenced in this Episode…
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Another Merit of Medieval Bolognese Canons
The Austrian School of economics traces its roots to the School of Salamanca in medieval times. The scholastics of Salamanca, in turn, were influenced by the…
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From Indentureship to Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs come from all walks of life and from different social and ethnic groups. Lipton Matthews reviews Jean-Claude Escalante’s From Indentureship to…
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North and South in Antiracist Revisionism
Modern “antiracist” historians have pursued the myth that the virtuous North engaged in warfare with the South in order to free slaves and end chattel slavery…
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Prices Are Not Measurements of Value
One of the fallacies of modern academic neoclassical economics is that we can take cardinal measures of value. Austrian economists, beginning with Carl Menger…
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The Fed’s “Price Stability” Schemes Sow Economic Chaos
The Federal Reserve says it can manipulate the money supply to ensure “price stability.” This worsens the boom-bust cycles and undermines the economy. Original…
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The Secret Passage: How Amzalak and Salazar Helped Ludwig von Mises Escape the Nazis
In 1940, shortly after Nazi armies ran across Europe and conquered France, Ludwig von Mises and his wife, Margit, escaped to the US after a harrowing journey…
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US Bond Yields Rise as Reserve Currency Status Wanes
The Federal Reserve continues to be the not-so-silent partner to the government's reckless deficit spending scheme. While the Fed tries to force down interest…
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Why It’s Time To Abolish the Department of Education
Created as a sop to the teachers‘ unions, the Department has presided over huge declines in student academic performances and has played a vital role in…
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2025 Predictions
From the economy to foreign policy, Ryan McMaken, Tho Bishop, and Zachary Yost take a look at where we're headed in the next year. Get free copies of What Has…
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The Significance of 2024 and the Challenges of 2025
2024 was a rough year for the Washington establishment as its control over public discourse continued to collapse. While this is an excellent development, the…
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An Economic Forecast for 2025
Mark Thornton looks forward to 2025—and a little bit backward at 2024—and projects what we might see in the coming new year. He also shares his economic "wish…
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Matt McCaffrey on Frank Fetter vs. Alfred Marshall on the Theory of Rent
Matt McCaffrey is a former Mises Institute research fellow with an expertise in the American economist (and Austrian fellow-traveler) Frank Fetter. He joins…
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Christmas, Capitalism, and Consumerism
Social critics often tell us that capitalism is contrary to the true meaning of Christmas. In truth, markets and entrepreneurs work to make Christmas more…
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A Critique of Black Box Economics
Mainstream economists today examine economic phenomena from a “black box” perspective in which they look at inputs and outputs without trying to understand…
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Climate Anxiety: A Regime-Created “Illness”
Thanks to unrelenting propaganda from the establishment media, a large number of Americans are suffering from what is diagnosed as “climate anxiety.” Original…
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Could an Increase in the Supply of Gold Cause a Boom-Bust Cycle?
Can an increase in the supply of gold cause a boom-bust cycle? Mises believed it was theoretically possible but highly unlikely. Rothbard, on the other hand…
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Disparate Impact Is a Legal Trick
By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be…