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Praxeology and Animals
Utopians are not satisfied with imposing DEI on humans. They also want the state to treat animals as “oppressed” minorities with positive rights. Original…
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The Reality of Human Action
Human action is not a figment of our imaginations, nor is it a social construct. Praxeology describes real and purposeful actions by people who act on what…
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Though popular, nationalizations ruin economies
When governments seize private firms in the name of nationalization, the moves are usually politically popular. However, it doesn't take long for the…
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Woodrow Wilson and Freedom
For all of his freedom-loving rhetoric, it is clear that Woodrow Wilson was one of the most antifreedom presidents in U.S. history. Original Article: Woodrow…
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Tariffs versus Free Trade
Patrick Newman exposes tariffs as economic distortions that harm consumers and misallocate resources. Drawing on Austrian insights, he debunks protectionist…
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs are the market’s driving force: risk-takers who organize capital and labor to meet uncertain consumer needs. Without them, there is no market…
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The Division of Labor and Social Order
Jonathan Newman shows how the division of labor sustains civilization. Drawing on Mises, he explains how peaceful cooperation, property rights, and…
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Does the Fed Push Interest Rates Down? History Says Yes
Jason Purcell is an analyst at a major financial institution with a specialty in bond analysis. He joins Bob to discuss his historical analysis of yield curves…
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Why Economic Inequality Is a Good Thing
Is equality good and inequality bad? Over the known history of man, increasing economic inequality is associated with rising standards of living for all. Using…
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Assassination Revisionism
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, asking the question of whether it was…
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Bureaucracy: The Death Knell of Higher Education
Many small colleges are shutting their doors, and it is largely the fault of overexpansion, government protectionism, and bureaucratic infiltration. Original…
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From Milk Runs to MAD to Madness
It has been nearly eighty years since the US used atomic warfare on Japan as a way to end World War II. The legacy of that event is not one of peace but of…
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Human Ignorance Is an Unstable Basis for Liberty and Praxeology
While F.A. Hayek saw human ignorance as the basis for what he called spontaneous order, Ludwig von Mises saw human reason as the basis for praxeology. Original…
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Julian Assange, the Chevron Doctrine, and the case against pessimism
Last week, Julian Assange was freed and the Chevron doctrine was overturned. These are huge wins for liberty. Not long ago, they felt completely out of reach…
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Milei Snubs the Spanish Political Establishment
Javier Milei’s recent “snub” of Spain's political establishment during a recent visit there may have been a “violation” of diplomatic protocol, but it also was…
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Reality Is NOT a Social Construct
Academic elites claim that there is no objective truth, only social constructs. Thus, people can create their own reality in many areas, and everyone else is…
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The State Does Not Create Value-Enhancing Jobs
For all of the claims that governments “create jobs,” in reality, government jobs come at a greater cost than any value those jobs may create. Government jobs…
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Varying Interpretations of Truth, or Truth as a Social Construct
As the progressive Left expands its occupation of our institutions, the concept of truth itself becomes little more than a weapon to utilize to achieve…
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Let's Abolish the Federal Reserve
On July 17, 2024, Tom DiLorenzo appeared on The Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to discuss Alexander Hamilton's Curse: the Federal Reserve. The original…
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Tom DiLorenzo on the Shaun Thompson Show
Who Needs the Fed? Tom DiLorenzo appears on the Shaun Thompson Show to discuss fiscal illusion and the failure of the Federal Reserve.
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Let's Demystify the Federal Reserve
On July 14, 2024, Tom DiLorenzo appeared The Alan Nathan Show to discuss the politics of the Federal Reserve. The original episode is available on Main Street…
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Would Trump Help Reign in the Fed?
On July 12, 2024, Tom DiLorenzo appeared on WILKOW! with Andrew Wilkow to discuss Austrian Economics and the Federal Reserve. The original episode is available…
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The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
Trade is under tremendous threat from both major political parties in the United States and their presidential candidates. In this episode, Mark Thornton…
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DiLorenzo Discusses the Work of the Mises Institute
On July 12, 2024, Tom DiLorenzo appeared Ringside Politics with Jeff Crouere. The original episode is available on WGSO AM 990.
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Banning Fossil Fuels Will Make Heat Waves More Dangerous, Not Less
Environmentalists insist on banning fossil fuels and refrigerant gasses in order to end heat waves. That means people will face future heat waves (which will…
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Biden’s Blarney on Bank Fees
While President Biden’s inflationary economy continues to falter, the president proposes to outlaw bank overdraft fees, ostensibly to help lower-income…
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Chop the Federal CHIPS Act
For all of the media ballyhoo about the CHIPS Act, it really is a page out of the old five-year plans from the Soviet Union. The CHIPS Act will have the same…
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Draghi’s Globalist EU Speech Urges Concentration of Power
What began as supposedly a free trade union has been turning into an authoritarian, interventionist nightmare. A recent speech by a top European Union…
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It All Began When the Government Tried to Make Housing More Affordable
The current explosion in rental and home prices is the direct result of government intervention aimed at making it easier to buy a house. Mises wrote that…
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The Collapse of Real Savings Caused the Great Depression
Contrary to Milton Friedman’s thesis that the decline in the money supply caused the Great Depression, the real reason was the collapse of real savings, which…
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The Impact of Interest Rates on Economic Growth: An Austrian Perspective
Even as the Federal Reserve continues to manipulate interest rates to “fight” the results of the business cycle, Austrian economics teaches that business…
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The “Equality of Opportunity” Fallacy
A common complaint is that the 1964 Civil Rights Act started in the “right direction,” valuing so-called equality of opportunity, but then went off the rails…
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Mosler Is Wrong, Interest Rate Hikes Don't Cause Inflation
Bob critiques MMT godfather Warren Mosler's recent interview on the Odd Lots podcast, where Mosler argued that the Fed rate hikes have been fueling the strong…
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The Welcomed Collapse of the Conservative Party
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Connor O'Keeffe fills in for Ryan McMaken for a conversation with Tho Bishop and William Yarwood about last week's British…
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July 4th Regrets
This 4th of July holiday, take a moment to re-declare independence from your government and commit yourself to being a more appreciative member of your…
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Tackling More of Robert Reich’s 'Economic Myths'
Are wealthy people getting wealthier because they work harder? Dr. Jonathan Newman is back on the show to discuss Robert Reich's latest videos about debunking…
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Hot Take: America's Revolution Was Great
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop celebrate Independence Day, respond to the revolution's critics, and explain why Rothbard viewed…
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Caitlin Clark, Bullying and the Business of Basketball
Caitlin Clark, with her array of basketball skills, has filled arenas in her inaugural WNBA season. However, the idea of merit clashes with the leftist…
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Harry Frankfurt, Humbug, and the Battle against Wokery
Philosopher Harry Frankfurt definitely was not a product of modern academe, where wokeness and outright humbug rule. He understood that the equal-outcomes…
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Is Stephanie Kelton Failing Her Academic Responsibility?
Stephanie Kelton, the most visible promoter of MMT, is being derelict in her academic duties by not replying to Per Bylund’s critique of her theories in the…
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Lysander Spooner’s Flawed War on Poverty
Lysander Spooner was one of this country’s most important libertarians. His views on economics, while flawed, are free market in principle and have some…
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Phony Civil Rights
The expansion of "civil rights" places emphasis upon "positive rights" that apply to specific groups with political privilege. This is a far cry from the…
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The 45-Year-Old Cold War with Iran Is a Failure. It’s Time for a New Approach
The US and Iran have been mortal enemies since 1979. It is clear that the belligerent approach to dealing with Iran has failed. We need to engage policies that…
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The UK Blood Scandal Exposes British Elites
The tainted blood scandal in the UK should be a warning to people about the dangers of the National Health Service. Instead, we hear endless promises of reform…
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What Price Charity?
Is charity a right held by everyone or should charity be confined to private, voluntary action within a free market? David Gordon argues for the latter…
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Playing with Fire: Official Trailer
Ludwig von Mises’s life was dedicated to intellectually combating the evils of socialism, interventionism, inflationism, and tyranny. He recognized that it…
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Rushing for the Financial Exits
Mark Thornton looks at the potential for everyone to run for the exits in the financial markets. In the absence of a gold monetary system and full reserve…
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How Washington and the Fed Caused the Commercial Real Estate Crisis
Commercial real estate in the USA is facing a major crisis which could not have been possible without the enabling of the Fed and the draconian restrictions…
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Joe Biden’s Reverse Robin Hood Student Debt Cancellation
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness scheme is really Robin Hood in reverse, transferring wealth from people from lower-income groups to those who are…
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Private Property Comes from Scarcity, Not Law
The socialist elites that dominate our institutions insist that private property is nothing more than a social construct held together by violence. As usual…
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Resisting the Brave New Culture
Murray Rothbard noted that the culture wars are not the result of conservative intransigence but rather of progressive elites’ insistence on forcing new…
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The Fallacies of Conservative Protectionists
In its attempt to claim that the concept of free trade is full of fallacies, The American Compass builds its anti-free trade case upon...fallacies. Original…
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The Problem with Juneteenth
The abolition of chattel slavery was a great advancement for human liberty. But many of those celebrating Juneteenth today still accept the core assumptions…
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The State Wants to Nationalize Second Mortgages. What Possibly Can Go Wrong?
As if the government has not done enough destruction in the housing market, there now is a scheme to have the government nationalize second mortgages. Given…
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The State’s Best-Kept Secret
What does the state do when in a financial fix? Unlike the rest of us, it legally counterfeits. By so doing, it transfers wealth to those who are politically…
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Debate Recap: The Funeral of Joe Biden
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the first presidential debate. The event was low on substance but high in significance…
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Why Assange Was Released
Kyle Anzalone from AntiWar.com and the Libertarian Institute joins Bob to discuss the timeline of Wikileaks and why the US government disliked Julian Assange…
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AI: “Existential Crisis” or Excuse for Cronyism?
As AI continues to develop, the prophets of doom claim that it will “take over” and create a dystopian society. Far from being an “existential threat,” AI is a…
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Decolonizers’ Assault on Science
The decolonization movement seeks to destroy both economics and science, all in the name of social justice. In the end, however, what they get is not justice…
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Governments Hate Privacy Software
Alex Pertsev, a developer of Tornado Cash, has been sentenced to prison by a Dutch court for helping build a platform that guarantees financial privacy. If…