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Flock is Down in Florida, Protests are Up in Spain, and Oil is Pumping in Venezuela
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho hit on a variety of topics, including meaningful rollbacks of Flock in the south, a look at…
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The Capture of the Constitution: How Public Sector Unions Exploited Free Speech to Suppress Black Upward Mobility
Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers. Original article…
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The Trilateral Commission
David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 as a body more elite than the CFR, and it placed its people in office. Rothbard runs through the…
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Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger rose through a Council on Foreign Relations study group and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, receiving $50,000 from Nelson Rockefeller three days…
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LBJ and the Power Elite
Johnson kept the hawks and replaced doves as they were ousted. Rothbard details the July 1965 meeting at which escalation was decided and the committee of…
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JFK and the Establishment
Rothbard traces Kennedy’s foreign policy appointments back to Lovett, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Lehman Brothers, then to the Bay of Pigs and the sugar…
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The Guatemalan Coup
After Arbenz nationalized uncultivated United Fruit holdings, Eisenhower assigned the CIA a counter-revolution. Rothbard maps the interlocking boards behind…
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Rockefeller, Morgan, and War
Rothbard reads the Second World War through rival interests: Rockefeller pressure for war with Japan over oil and rubber, Morgan commitment to Britain and…
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The CFR
The Council on Foreign Relations emerged from a 1921 merger, Morgan-dominated from top to bottom, with Elihu Root as honorary president and Morgan’s chief…
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The Round Table
Rothbard traces the Milner Group from Rhodes’s 1891 society through its command of British postwar planning and the expert delegation at Versailles, to the…
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The Fortuitous Fed
Established at the end of 1913, the Federal Reserve made Allied loans and wartime deficits possible by centralizing reserves and backstopping the banks…
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Morgan, Wilson, and War
Rothbard shows the Progressive Party ploy that delivered Wilson the presidency, the Morgan men who surrounded him, and the influence of Colonel House. With the…
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Teddy Roosevelt and the “Lone Nut”
McKinley’s assassination made a Morgan man president. Rothbard details the syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan and Company that bought the old French canal…
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An Aggressive Asian Policy
Blocked in China by Russia and a Belgian syndicate, an American banking consortium pressed Washington toward a harder Asian line. Rothbard follows the American…
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J. P. Morgan
After 1873 the House of Morgan became the leading investment firm in the country and, through Cleveland’s Democratic administrations, a decisive voice in…
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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Rothbard’s opening thesis: commercial bankers, engaged in fractional reserve credit, always teeter toward bankruptcy and reach for bailout, while investment…
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Introduction to the 1995 Edition
Justin Raimondo places the essay in Rothbard’s career, showing how methodological individualism and the Austrian analysis of banking combine into a history of…
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Introduction to the 2011 Edition
Writing after the 2008 collapse and the bailouts, Anthony Gregory argues that left and right each see half of the corporate-state picture and refuse the…
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Bessent and Warsh Are Playing for the Midterms
The argument for AI solving inflation runs through productivity: better technology lowers costs, so prices fall. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute takes…
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How Neoliberals Fueled the Rise of Socialism
The neoliberal establishment has done much to define our highly-interventionist, inflationary, and crony system as true free-market capitalism. They shouldn’t…
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No, Flock Is Not Really a Private Company
The term that best describes the CEO of the "private" company Flock is "parasite" or "plutocrat" or "welfare queen" because his "business model" is simply…
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The Ethical Foundations of the Just War Doctrine
Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers. Original article…
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Credit Out of “Thin Air” Brings Wealth Destruction
Federal Reserve policy has been to expand credit out of nothing without regard for the real damage it does to the economy. Original article…
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The High Cost of the Automated Flock-Camera Surveillance State
The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much?…
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Appendix A: Minor Remedies Proposed
Rothbard collects the smaller remedies that circulated during the depression, chief among them internal improvements as relief for the unemployed…
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Chapter VII. Conclusion
Rothbard draws the threads together and challenges the standard historiography. The inflation-versus-hard-money battle cut across region, class, wealth, and…
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Chapter VI. The Movement for a Protective Tariff
The depression revived a dormant tariff movement and turned it into something close to a crusade. Rothbard follows Matthew Carey and the Philadelphia…
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Chapter V. Restricting Bank Credit: Proposals and Actions
The hard-money response held that excessive bank credit had caused the depression and that only rigid specie payment could end it. Rothbard catalogs the…
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Chapter IV. Proposals for National Monetary Expansion
A smaller but more theoretically ambitious group looked past the states to a national inconvertible currency. Rothbard examines their schemes in detail…
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Chapter III. State Proposals and Actions for Monetary Expansion
Because banks were chartered by the states, the monetary fight was fought mainly in state legislatures, and Rothbard follows it across the Union. Proposals…
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Chapter I. The Panic and Its Genesis: Fluctuations in American Business, 1815–21
Rothbard sets the stage with a portrait of a young agrarian republic transformed by the War of 1812. Foreign trade collapsed and domestic manufacturing surged…
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Chapter II. Direct Relief of Debtors
The debtors' plight was the most visible face of the depression, and the most politically explosive. Rothbard traces two distinct battles: the federal question…
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Preface
Rothbard opens by establishing why the Panic of 1819 matters: it was the first American crisis that could not be pinned on a specific act of government, and…
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Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court
The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling…
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The Fallacy of Stable Prices
The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. Original article…
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The Two Lineages of Liberty
The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from…
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The State Is Coming for Your Roomba
Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board. Original article…
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Printability Matters
Mark Thornton opens with a warning from Jackson Hole: the Fed’s public mandate is a cover story. Its real job is to serve the big banks and the state by…
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Nationality: You Belong to the State
There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by…
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Three Reasons Why the French Revolution Was So Different from the American Revolution
In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater…
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Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump
Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment…
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The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment
California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if…
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The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment
The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods…
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The Importance of Teleology in Understanding Economic Inequality
As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal…
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Rothbard vs. the Conservatives on the American and French Revolutions
Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative…
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Austrian Economics, Gold, and the Fed’s Confidence Game
Mark Thornton opens with an interview from the Rothbard Graduate Seminar on what makes Austrian economics distinct, why the Mises Institute matters, and how…
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Why the French Revolution Was Not a Libertarian Revolution
A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution. Original article…
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Patrick Newman on the Rise of the Corporatist State
This week, Bob talks with Dr. Patrick Newman about his new book, Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929, which reviews how big business built the…
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The Anti-Flock Revolution
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about the growing populist backlash to Flock cameras and the AI-powered security state. Are…
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Jason Arday and the DEI System that Just Won't Die
After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change. Original…
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The Flock Camera Backlash Is a Very Good Sign
The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are…
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Silver Squeeze? Mark Thornton on Wall Street Bullion
Mises Institute Senior Fellow Mark Thornton joins Wall Street Bullion to discuss the outlook for gold and silver, the consequences of decades of monetary…
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The Seen and the Unseen Cost of a Government Grocery Discount
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat…
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The Innovation Mirage: Why DeepSeek and Kimi 3 Do Not Settle the Question of Chinese Technological Supremacy
There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question. Original…
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The Imaginary World of Fed "Independence"
The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong. Original article…
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Economic Theory Connects Gold to Money
Mark Thornton uses Austrian theory to explain where money came from — Menger's bottom-up origin of money — and why gold makes for sound money and smaller…
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How the State Seized Control of Money
Ryan McMaken shows how seizing control of money was central to building the modern state — a centuries-long project that culminated in World War I destroying…
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Mises Circle New Mexico: Closing Panel and Q&A
Mark Thornton, Ryan McMaken, Kevin Duffy, and JP Cortez close out the 2026 New Mexico Mises Circle by taking audience questions on gold, silver, Bitcoin…
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Stopping Fiat Theft: Restoring Sound Money at State and Federal Levels
JP Cortez argues fiat money is a hidden theft, and that the fix is a bottom-up, state-level push to remove the taxes and rules that stop Americans from freely…
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The Austrian Investor’s Golden Opportunity
Kevin Duffy reads gold's bull market through an Austrian investor's lens — America's "imperial bubble" and the gold demand driving it from a rising East…