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Heavy Sanctions against Russia Could Usher in a Wider Economic War
The sanctions against Russia have the potential to spiral into something much larger. Indeed, many governments are using the current conflict as an opportunity…
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We Still Haven't Reached the Inflation Finale
Is it too much to hope that the current inflation will "burn out" via similar mechanisms that have reined in inflation in the past? Original Article: "We Still…
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After More Than a Month of Fighting, Where Do Things Stand in the Russia-Ukraine War?
While the battlefield results are mixed, much of the action in the Russia-Ukraine war is happening beyond the warring countries. Original Article: "After More…
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Jon Stewart Asks Great Questions of Federal Reserve Chief
In a recent episode of “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” the former Daily Show host asks former president of the Kansas City Fed Thomas Hoenig why the Fed…
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Real Wages Fall Again as Inflation Surges and the Fed Plays the Blame Game
Money printing may bring rising wages, but it also brings rising prices for goods and services. And those increases are outpacing the wage increases. Original…
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Do "Inflationary Expectations" Cause Inflation? Contra Krugman, the Answer Is No
Paul Krugman recently wrote that the reason we see high inflation is that people mistakenly believe inflation is in our future and act accordingly. This…
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How Inflation Ends
Jeff and Bob discuss the mechanics—and pain—required to put an end to inflation. Read Bob's Understanding Money Mechanics: Mises.org/Mechanics
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And Now for a Really Bad Response to Political Calamity: Autarky
The world is in chaos, so politicians MUST do something. Hence, they demand autarky, which is like attempting to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it…
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Fighting Back: My Legal and Ethical Battle against Covid Mandates
Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 2, 2022. Special thanks to Mark Walker for sponsoring this event.
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The Fed Wanted Inflation, Now They Have No Idea What to Do
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop take a look back at previous statements by current members of the Fed. For years, the Fed said…
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The Wrong Elites
Russian oligarchs, American pols, and state-connected billionaires are all cut from the same cloth: they didn't earn, or fully earn, their wealth and position…
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Behind Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset: Part 5
Bob completes his series on the elites who are literally trying to take over the world. He first explains Schwab’s connection to the Global Government Summit…
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If Ukraine Joins the EU, It Will Be the Poorest Member by Far
Ukraine should have been a middle-income country by now. Instead, it is one of the poorest in Europe. If Ukraine joined the EU, it would be the poorest country…
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The Fed Can't Fix the Economy, but It Can Break It
Despite assurances from politicians and the media, the Federal Reserve System is not a collection of geniuses who stand guard against inflation and recession…
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How Covid Unleashed the Fed
Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 2, 2022. Slides used during this talk are available here. Special thanks to Mark Walker for sponsoring this event.
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The Unseen Costs of Covid Policies
Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 2, 2022. Slides used during this talk are available here. Special thanks to Mark Walker for sponsoring this event.
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Why It's Looking More like the 1970s than the 1950s.
It is theoretically possible that through huge gains in productivity, the US could escape inflation and stave off a recession. But don’t count on it. Original…
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European Environmentalists Have Made Energy Independence Impossible
Europe wants cheap and abundant energy, but politicians demonize nuclear, gas, and oil. All the interventionist proposals that are put forward by European…
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What Causes Exceptionally Low Inflation in Japan and Switzerland?
Do the low inflation rates mean that the purchasing power of Japanese and Swiss citizens has increased relative to other countries over time? The answer seems…
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NATO: Our International Welfare Queens
The states of Europe have more than enough wealth and military potential to deal with a second-rate power like Russia. The American taxpayers, on the other…
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Rothbard on Today's Progressive War Jingoism
Rothbard the historian explained so well how the true progressive goal was always to remake America domestically by promoting war. Original Article: "Rothbard…
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Commodities Do Not Cause Inflation. Money Printing Does.
Some blame high prices, wages, the Ukraine war, or the weak recovery. The fact is currency destruction is at the heart of generalized price rises everywhere…
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Inflation Isn't What the "Experts" Say It Is. The Confusion in Terms Is Deliberate
The usual "experts" claim inflation is a general increase in the price level. Wrong. Prices rise because of inflation, which is a government-caused increase in…
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American Oligarchs? Elon, Twitter, and Unnatural Elites
Jeff and Bob discuss whether America has its own oligarchs instead of Hoppe's "natural elites." Hoppe's essay mises.org/Hoppe338 Jeff on the wrong elites…
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Lockdowns, Not the Pandemic, Created Havoc
Those responsible for locking down much of the US during covid blame the pandemic itself for the economic and social havoc that followed. Perhaps they should…
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The State: It’s Oligarchs All the Way Down
Lenin called World War I a war among the capitalists of Europe. He was wrong. It was a war among oligarchs, statists who extract wealth from legitimate…
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The End of the Unipolar World and the Myth of "Rules-Based International Order"
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop mock the self-awareness of beltway foreign policy experts lamenting Putin's challenge to…
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Keith Weiner on the Role of Gold in Today's Economy
Jeff talks to Keith Weiner of Monetary Metals about why gold still plays a major role in the global economy. Listen to Bob's interview with Keith at…
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Why Saudi Arabia Won't Abandon Dollars for Yuan
Saudi Arabia could flee to gold or cryptocurrencies to escape the money-printing machine, but it won't replace the US dollar with an inferior fiat currency…
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Keith Weiner on the Gold Market and How to Replace Government Paper Money
Keith Weiner is founder and CEO of Monetary Metals, an investment firm that pays interest on gold, and the founder of the Gold Standard Institute USA. Weiner’s…
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No, More Bureaucracy Would NOT Have Saved Trump's Paycheck Protection Program
The standard bureaucratic line after a program's failure is that the government agents didn't have enough authority or resources to handle the job. Neither…
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What’s in a Name? Why the Definition of Capitalism Matters
Capitalism is often blamed for the effects of policies that aren't capitalism. This is why we need a better definition of capitalism. Original Article: "What’s…
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Dr. Thomas Szasz’s Campaign against Psychiatric Coercion and the "Therapeutic State"
The late Dr. Thomas Szasz, who was well known to libertarians, believed using coercion to treat psychiatric patients was a form of torture. He left a legacy of…
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How Agriculture Bureaucrats Are Manipulating Food Prices—and Our Diets
The agriculture industry is largely running as a planned economy. When the power to make decisions is delegated to bureaucrats rather than to those impacted…
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The Economics of Woke Disney
Bob and Jeff get into the weeds of Disney's shareholders, revenues, and holdings in light of the company's recent spat with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Why Are American Taxpayers Paying for Europe's Defense?
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at Ryan's article, "NATO: Our International Welfare Queens" (Mises.org/RR_75_A), breaking…
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A Harder Line with Beijing? Let’s Hope Not.
Beijing only ever really wanted Moscow around as a way to balance against Washington. But with the US being seen to overtly seek to punish Beijing, this will…
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We Must Now Learn the Lesson of 1914, Not the Lesson of 1938.
Europe would have been immeasurably better off had its regimes chosen compromise instead of "countering aggression" in 1914. Sometimes this lesson is heeded…
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Left Thought Collective: One Hundred Years of the Socialist Commonwealth
Recorded at the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 18–19, 2022. The Ludwig von Mises Memorial…
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Markets Are Peaceful but the State Is Not
There are only two ways human cooperation occurs: through voluntary means or through coercion. The free market stands for voluntary cooperation; coercion and…
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Will Biden Sanction Half the World to Isolate Russia?
The United States is no longer in any position to remake the world in its image. It's not 1945 or even 1970. Yet the US seems to be gearing up to bully half…
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Egypt Is Still Haunted By Its Ghosts of Socialism
It has been more than fifty years since Egyptian strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser died, but his unfortunate legacy of imposing socialism on Egypt still harms the…
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Facing Unpleasant Facts: What You aren’t Supposed to say about the War in Ukraine
A funny thing has happened on the way to accepting the standard ruling-class narrative on the war in Ukraine: inconvenient and unpleasant facts about the…
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Behind Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset: Part 4
Bob continues his series, this time focusing on the creepy worldview of WEF speaker Yuval Harari, and further reviews Schwab’s book on Covid-19 and the Great…
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Russia Isn't Nearly as Isolated as Washington Wants You to Believe
Those gloating about Russia being "cut off" are overstating the case. In fact, many of the world's largest countries have shown a reluctance to participate in…
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The Persistent Problem of Objective Value
Recorded at the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 18–19, 2022. The Lou Church Memorial…
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The West's Russia Sanctions Show Why States Want to Weaponize the Financial System
States continue to seek new ways to make the financial system an “economic chokepoint” enabling the state to crack down on specific organizations, individuals…
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America Has Long Been a Haven for Draft Dodgers from Foreign Lands
From the Volga Germans to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire to the Spaniards and the Mennonites, choosing emigration as a means of avoiding military…
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Love, Fear, and the Law of Good Intentions
Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter…
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Real Scientific Inquiry Requires Dissent. But That's Not What the CDC and JAMA Want.
The scientific method requires free and open dissent from any scientific hypothesis. Yet JAMA is requesting that medical boards become a new Inquisition to…
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Is Lindsey Graham the Worst US Senator?
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss whether Lindsey Graham is the worst member of the US Senate. The two carefully compare…
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The Crazy Housing Market
Jeff and Bob discuss the dynamics of the housing market in the context of a recent talk by Alex Pollock. "Hazlitt, Hayek, and How the Fed Made Itself into the…
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The Looming Threat of a National Breakup
Recorded at the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 18–19, 2022. The F.A. Hayek Memorial…
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Canceling American Athletes to Punish Russia: The 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott
Today, we see Russian athletes, artists, and musicians punished because of their government's invasion of Ukraine. The last time Russia invaded another…
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In the Age of Covid, We're Reminded an Unjust Law Is No Law at All
It is one thing to follow the law for prudential reasons and another thing entirely to assume the law brings with it some sort of moral imperative. Laws rarely…
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The West's Russia Sanctions Could Lead to Many Unpredictable and Unpleasant Outcomes
Imposing sanctions will advance the reach of surveillance capitalism while strengthening the power of states to control the financial system overall. The end…
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Hazlitt, Hayek, and How the Fed Made Itself into the World's Biggest Savings and Loan
Recorded at the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 18–19, 2022. The Henry Hazlitt Memorial…
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Patents, Legal Monopolies, and the High Prices for Drugs
While government officials and politicians denounce high drug prices, they have created monopoly privileges for drug firms, thus ensuring…
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The Progressives' Liberal Democracy Has Failed. Radical Decentralization Is the Answer.
In many ways, the liberal democracy that had its roots in nineteenth-century liberalism seems to have run its course. Can we revive it, or does something more…
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Why Sanctions Don't Work, and Why They Mostly Hurt Ordinary People
Sanctions remain popular because they placate the voters who insist "we" must "do something," and government officials are more than happy to accept this…