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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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The Present Monetary System Is Heading for a Breakdown
As monetary authorities continue to inflate the money supply, they inflict more and more damage upon the currency. Unfortunately, as the economy falters under…
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“I Have Bills to Pay,” Or Why the Fed Really Cut Interest Rates
What if we could have eavesdropped on a conversation between Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen? It might have gone as follows…
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What Was Mises's Position on Fractional Reserve Banking?
Murphy lays out the various camps in the debate over FRB. He endorses the view of Joe Salerno, namely that Mises favored "free banking" as the best means for…
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Americans Don't Owe Eastern Europe Anything
Ryan, Tho, and Zach Yost talk about some recent efforts by Polish lobbyists to shame Americans into spending more treasure (and maybe also American lives) on…
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A Case Study in State Conquest: The Federalists’ Constitution
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by Andy Hord.
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All States Are Empires of Economic Lies
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by David and Suzanne Britton-Ohl.
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Mises on Democracy: A Critique
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by Gregory and Jane Gandee.
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Our Enemy, Public Health
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by Carl and Karen Bowen.
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The State versus Prosperity in the Less Developed Countries
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by Dan Johnson and Randee Laskewitz.
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Prohibition: The Sword of the State
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by Jeff Leskovar.
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Where Would We Be Without the State?
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by Steven and Cassandra Torello.
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Printing Power: The Central Bank and the State
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Sponsored by Nicholas Maier.
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The Social Responsibility of Business
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024. Sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.
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Land, Agronomy, and State: My Time in the Soil Conservation Service
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024. Sponsored by Nicholas Maier.
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Beware of War Hawks in “America First” Clothing
Throughout the Trump years, many of the worst war hawks have abandoned the GOP. However, others are trying to rebrand the same old neoconservative…
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The Assault on Our Liberties
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024. Sponsored by Don Wills.
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The Expropriator-in-Chief
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024. Sponsored by David and Suzanne Britton-Ohl.
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Only the Austrians Can Defeat Central Banking
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024. Sponsored by Mark and Mirella Monoscalco.
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The Hunt for the Neutral Rate of Interest
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024. Includes awarding the 2024 Mises Institute Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian…
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Economists and the State: From Enemies to Friends
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024. Sponsored by Murray and Florence Sabrin.
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Welcome and Opening Remarks to the 2024 Supporters Summit
Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Friday, October 11, 2024.
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The Economics of Prepping
Why do people prep? The mainstream media demeans preppers as irrational and out of touch with reality. From a scientific point of view, however, prepping is…
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Covid Tyrants Partied While Demanding Lockdowns for Everyone Else
Remember when progressive governments outlawed church gatherings but sanctioned sex orgies? Yes, it really happened. Original article: Covid Tyrants Partied…
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Does Technical Knowledge by Itself Drive Economic Growth?
Ask most people why our economy is advanced, and they will likely will answer, “Technology.” Yet, technical knowledge is meaningless without capital…
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Enough Already: Stop Provoking Russia
The Ukraine war rages on and while the media and political classes repeat the “Putin started it” mantra, the evidence points elsewhere. The US government and…
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Henri Bergson: The Philosopher of Life and Creative Evolution
While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered his ideas to promote their own…
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Past Tense—The Homeless Problem in Star Trek DS9
When discussing the homeless situation in the US, Star Trek does not usually come to mind. However, one episode from about three decades ago was both…
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The Battle of the Confederate Monuments
In the past four years, a number of monuments honoring the Confederacy have been torn down or removed. As we have seen before, however, the activism behind…
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What Does ChatGPT Know about Money?
What does ChatGPT know about money? More than one might think. George Ford Smith asks the AI program some questions about money and gets some surprising…
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Philipp Bagus on the Flaws in the "Real Bills" Doctrine
Dr. Philipp Bagus explains the main ideas from his new book, Full Reserve Banking versus the Real Bills Doctrine, which defends Misesian business cycle theory…
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To Beat the State, We Must Replace It
We must first build institutions that can replace the state. Institutions like families, churches, and schools. "We're in the Middle of a Long War with the…
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Hurricanes Are Not Going Away; We Must Double Down on What’s Making Them More Survivable
Storms like Helene and Milton ought to drive us to recommit to and expand the very institutions that have made natural disasters more survivable for so many…
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What the New Jobs Report Really Says
September's job numbers were driven by big increases in government jobs and part-time work. Be sure to follow the Loot and Lobby podcast at Mises.org/LL
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An Economy So Strong It Requires Crisis-Level Fed Action
The Fed’s specialty is propaganda through data, with a long record of failure. This is by design. Their communication tools must work in overtime, particularly…
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Tariffs, Protectionism, and Why Borders Matter
The political zeitgeist is to embrace protectionism, leading some who support free trade to embrace open borders. However, as Murray Rothbard explained, people…
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The Denarius and the Dollar: Price Controls Then and Now
The more things change, the more they remain the same. In our present age of inflation, we are reminded of how Diocletian and other Roman authorities ordered…
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The Fed Hits the Panic Button and Slashes the Fed Funds Rate
The Fed is desperate for you to think that “this time is different.” Unfortunately, Powell can’t seem to come up with explanation of why that is the case…
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The Gradual Leftward Shift in US Politics and Economy
This year's presidential election is presented in stark terms of right and left, Trump on the right and Harris on the left. However, it is more realistic to…
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The Second Trump Shooter Believed Exactly What the Establishment Media Wanted Him to Believe
After Trump narrowly escaped another assassination attempt, the establishment seems uninterested in the motives of the would-be shooter. Perhaps that’s because…
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Understanding the Basics of Modern Banking
Banking systems around the world have huge effects on our lives, yet few people understand how banks work. Worse yet, even fewer understand the malign powers…
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Yes, We Should Defend the Term “Capitalism”
Many proponents of free markets have tried to cast aside the name “capitalism” as a descriptor of the market system. They should take caution before doing so…
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Your Kids Are Already Communists, and College Will Make It Worse
Children in the US are raised to be communists. Most of the parents are, too, and don’t even know it. It doesn’t matter if you send them to public or private…
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Paul Cwik's New Introduction to Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Paul Cwik revisits the podcast to explain his new book, which aims to simplify ABCT for economics students and professors, especially those teaching at the…
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Cronyism and Historical Revisionism
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Patrick Newman. The three discuss Dr. Newman's upcoming book, Cronyism: Rise of…
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The Fed's Two-Percent Inflation Target Is Meaningless
The two-percent price inflation target is just a political slogan, and the Fed has many ways of ignoring its supposed two-percent target. Be sure to follow the…
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Playing with Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve
The Fed has been the source of booms, busts, and the ongoing impoverishment of Americans since the Fed’s founding. This is why a new, critical look at the…
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Governments Make Everything Worse
Wanjiru Njoya tells Charles Malet (UKColumn.org) how she sees a truly free market, devoid of any government intervention, as being the route by which all…
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America Doesn’t Need More “Efficient” Government
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to make the federal government more efficient. But if the true aim of our political system is not to solve the problems facing…
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Terrible Predictions, End the Fed, and Capitalism
Tom DiLorenzo joins Keith Weinhold on the Get Rich Education podcast to uncover the current state of capitalism and if it still exists in America. The original…
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Tom Luongo on the Rival Factions Among Bankers
Donate $5 today to support our Fall Campaign and receive a physical copy of Anatomy of the State: Mises.org/HH5 Tom Luongo hosts the Gold, Goats, 'n Guns…
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John Maynard Keynes: Mathematician, Investor, and Economist
This Sunday, September 29, marks the birthday of Ludwig von Mises, and all fall campaign donations will be doubled in celebration. Join us! Mises.org/mi5 John…
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Do Financial Markets Immediately Provide All Relevant Information?
The Perfect Market Hypothesis claims that all movements in the market can be considered as random, as market players and prices adjust immediately to new…
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New “Engels” on Marx
It is understood that Marx's theories stand entirely upon his Labor Theory of Value. If that theory is discredited, so is the scenario that leads to the…
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Understanding the Real Costs of Slavery: It’s Not Cheap labor
The standard belief is that slavery was about obtaining “cheap labor,“ yet nothing could be further from the truth. Slavery comes with high opportunity costs…
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Why the Family Is Not the Model for the State
Politicians have long claimed that states are like big families, and that political regimes rule in ways similar to how parents raise their families. This is…
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Economically-Illiterate Policy Proposals Are Popular, And Economists Are to Blame
Many “mainstream” economists are bothered by the popularity of economically-flawed policy proposals like tariffs and price controls. It’s their own fault. Read…
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Against the Hamiltonian Statecraft
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Aaron Sobczak of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The three…
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Can the State be Justified?
The common belief regarding state power is that it is always justified and there can be no questioning the state's existence. But is that true? Does state…
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It’s Always Been Hamiltonian Statecraft
The ruling elites of the US are calling for a "return" to "Hamiltonian Statecraft" and to move away from so-called isolationism. However, there has been no…
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Smashing the Western Illusion of Democracy
When our ruling classes speak of “believing in democracy,” they are speaking of a romantic version of a form of governance that, in real life, is quite…