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The Economy Is a Mess: What Lessons Will We Learn?
As inflation advances and the economy slowly implodes, we also learn valuable lessons. Original Article: "The Economy Is a Mess: What Lessons Will We Learn?"…
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The Petrodollar-Saudi Axis Is Why Washington Hates Iran
The Ponzi game known as selling US government debt is nearing its end. The seller is running out of suckers. Original Article: "The Petrodollar-Saudi Axis Is…
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Changing of the Guard: Can Musk Deliver on His Promises for Free Speech and Information?
While Elon Musk says he will bring free speech back to Twitter, the forces of statism will not be still. The jury is out on how successful Musk's experiment…
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Rothbard on Gold
At a time when inflation once again ravages the dollar, we recall Murray Rothbard's wisdom in his article "The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar." Original…
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Are Seasonally Adjusted Economic Data Useful?
Government economists "seasonally adjust" data in order to better respond with policy recommendations to deal with business cycles. The problem is that…
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The Socio-Politics of the Midterms
Jeff joins Chris Casey of WindRock Wealth Management for a deep analysis of next week's punishing midterm elections.
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Why Proposition 13 and Attacking It Are Both Popular
More than forty years ago, California voters enthusiastically passed Proposition 13, which limited property tax hikes. Politicians have been lying about it…
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Critiquing Florida's Public Policy of "Shared Adversity"
Florida's government promotes a "shared adversity" plan in which individuals and organizations have distant environmental problems imposed upon them. Original…
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Honest Money in Dishonest Hands
While we speak of a desire for honest money, the larger problem is that the Federal Reserve System cannot coexist with an honest money regime. Original…
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Black Hole or Shock Absorber: How Does a Free-Market Economy Respond to Crises?
As the inevitable economic downturn becomes more evident, the Fed will attempt to stop deflation. But what this economy needs is a good dose of it. Original…
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Can the Dollar Once Again Be Anchored by Gold? One Congressman Believes It Can
The Gold Standard Restoration Act seeks to once again tie the US dollar to gold. Original Article: "Can the Dollar Once Again Be Anchored by Gold? One…
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Midterm Political Theater: The Pregame Show
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Tho Bishop and Ryan McMaken preview next week's midterms. How big of a red wave is on the horizon, and how much does it…
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Profits Do Not Cause Inflation (No Matter What Progressives Claim)
Progressives like Robert Reich now claim that there is no inflation, just businesses arbitrarily raising prices so they can increase profits. Such claims do…
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The Dollar's Global Wake of Destruction
Even with near-record inflation, the US dollar still has gained strength relative to other currencies. This does not mean that the Fed has been acting…
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Federal Reserve Tampering with Interest Rates Distorts the Shape of the Yield Curve
In a free market, short-term and long-term rates would move toward convergence. Fed interference with interest rates ensures that won't happen. Original…
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Student Loan Debt: The Financial Time Bomb Politicians Want to Ignore
President Biden's nonsolution of partial "debt forgiveness" is in limbo, but the slow financial destruction that massive student loan debt is unleashing…
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Review of Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
Law Professor David Bernstein looks at the system of racial classifications in the USA and explains why they have been harmful. Original Article: "Review of…
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It's Time to Abandon America's Fetish for "Unconditional Surrender"
War dissenters are branded "Putinists" by the foreign policy elites who casually flirt with nuclear war. But preferring negotiations to World War III hardly…
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The Fed's Current Monetary Stance Will Lead to Stagflation, Not Deflation
After following hyper-Keynesian policies for more than two decades, the Fed is about to create the conditions that Keynesians claimed were impossible: an…
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To Many, America Still Is a Place of Opportunity (Unless Progressives Destroy That, Too)
People still come to America, but it is because of the foundation created by private enterprise, not because of progressive politics. Original Article: "To…
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Without Easy Money from the Fed, Home Prices Will Keep Falling
Home price growth of the sort we've seen in recent years simply cannot be sustained without a continued commitment to easy money from the central bank, and it…
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Words as Weapons
Criticisms of hapless Senate candidate John Fetterman are labeled "ableist," while Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is deemed fascist. Jeff and Bob take a hard…
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Did Alex Jones Get What He Deserved?
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the Alex Jones verdict and the weaponization of defamation law. Now that Twitter is…
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Housing Is Getting Less Affordable. Governments Are Making It Worse.
Insurance protects individuals from events that cannot be foreseen. As Murray Rothbard noted, however, deposit insurance exists to "protect" a system that is…
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Murray Rothbard Was Right: Deposit "Insurance" Is Not Insurance at All
Insurance protects individuals from events that cannot be foreseen. As Murray Rothbard noted, however, deposit insurance exists to "protect" a system that is…
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"Spend Now, and Deal with the Consequences Later" Is the Worst Policy
Our current deficit policy amounts to "Give me your wallet, and you will deal with the credit card balance later." Original Article: ""Spend Now, and Deal with…
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An Evening with Dr. Ron Paul
Sponsored by James McMahon. Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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Fed Socialist Money Manipulation Cancels Individuals' Better Judgment
Government inflation makes people’s responses much more delayed, leaving people’s value adding greatly degraded. Original Article: "Fed Socialist Money…
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Europe's Energy Crisis Was Created by Political Intervention
The European electricity market is probably the most state-regulated in the world. More intervention is not going to solve the problems created by politics…
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How We Win
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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The Beginning
Sponsored by Diane Johnson and Andy Hord. Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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The Mises Institute as an Intellectual Home
Featuring Tho Bishop, Liam Metzger, Connor Mortell, Mitchell Robson, and Annika Wahlstedt. Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on…
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The Nobel for Government Intervention: Bernanke and Others Rewarded for Flawed Theories
This year's trio of Nobel winners in economics are short on actual economics and long on government intervention. Original Article: "The Nobel for Government…
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Gold as Natural Money
Gold historically has not been money by government fiat. Instead, gold has been the natural choice of people for money, something governments cannot undo…
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The Bank of England Made Liz Truss a Scapegoat
The only lesson for the United Kingdom is to remember that if you follow Greece’s economic policies, you get Greek debt, unemployment, and growth. Original…
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The Perils of Higher Education: Institutional Failure
As we watch the once proud edifice of higher education in the USA crumble, we realize that we are looking at institutional failure itself. Original Article…
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A Critique of the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
While Bitcoin's S2F Model has come under some criticism, the best analysis of its flaws comes from perspective of Austrian Economics. Original Article: "A…
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Higher Education in Crisis: The Problem of Ideological Homogeneity
College faculties historically have leaned left-of-center, but today, a rigid progressive ideology is enforced not only by faculty, but also by higher…
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The Legacy of Murray Rothbard
Featuring David Gordon, Paul Gottfried, Peter Klein, and Joseph Salerno. Sponsored by Happy Baily and Charlie Martin.
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Why Revisionism Matters
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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College as an Economic and Social Problem: Dealing with the Culture
Even while Americans deal with skyrocketing higher education costs, few would challenge the worth of college and fewer still question the campus culture. Yet…
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The Higher Ed System Is Ripping Us Off
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop talk with historian Chris Calton about student loans, "the college experience," and the lack of ideological diversity on college…
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The Need for Beauty in Economics
Free Markets are often criticized for producing ugly, dystopian, consumer-driven landscapes, but is this true? Jeff explains how we need more than intellectual…
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What Do Supply and Demand Curves Really Tell Us? Not Very Much
It is easy to think of supply and demand curves as being key to economic analysis. In reality, they can't tell us much, and emphasizing them actually stands in…
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The West Didn't Become Rich Because of Slavery But in Spite of It
The modern progressive narratives claim that the wealth of the West and especially of the USA was built upon the backs of slaves. In fact, slavery retarded…
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We're Getting Poorer: Price Inflation Grew Faster than Wages Again in September
There are only painful options for bringing price inflation under control at this point, and that's all thanks to the Fed's creation of countless bubbles and…
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Edward Chancellor's Much-Needed (But Not Heeded) Wisdom on Interest Rates
The world seems to be on fire, and much of the trouble comes from the efforts of central banks to suppress interest rates. No one understands that problem…
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How Austrian Economics Took On the Academy
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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Inflation, High Inflation, Hyperinflation
Hyperinflation? Yes, it can happen here, and the more officials deny hyperinflation is possible, the more they create the conditions that causes it. Original…
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Prospects for Right Libertarian Fusionism
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022. The 1989 Rockford Institute meeting picture: Mises.org/1989-Rockford Sponsored…
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Mises and Rothbard versus the Progressives
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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Thanks to the Fed, You'll Work More This Year to Keep Last Year's Standard of Living
This is the "American dream" the Fed has given us: work more jobs and longer hours to keep paying those bills that are now growing at 8 percent per year…
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The Alex Jones Verdict Shows the Danger of Defamation Laws
The idea of defamation as a punishable legal matter is based on the notion that people do not have free will and are not responsible for their own actions…
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The Lew Rockwell I Know
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022. Sponsored by Sheri and Thomas Yengst.
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How the Salamanca School Influenced the Modern Austrian School
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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The Austrian School Legacy in Vienna
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
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The Front Lines of the Language Wars
Language is at the front lines of the battle over institutions. Original Article: "The Front Lines of the Language Wars" This Audio Mises Wire is generously…
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To Limit the Reach of America's Stasi, the FBI, Vacate All FISA Rulings
The FBI operates as an agency whose players know they are untouchable in the current regime. Vacating FISA rulings is one way to fight back. Original Article…
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A Commonsense Approach to the Austrian-Mainstream Methodenstreit
Mainstream economists claim that Austrian economics is "discredited" because Austrians use deductive reasoning instead of employing complicated calculus and…
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Higher Education Woes: Student Loans Help Fuel Higher College Costs
While President Biden claims that forgiving student loans helps reduce college costs, it is the loan program itself that is responsible for much of the…