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Review: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
Fauci-funded and Fauci-supported "AIDS research" consisted of running medical experiments on children, among other horrors. Through it all, Fauci profited…
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The Fundamentals Point to Inflation That's Much More than "Transitory"
The Fed may slow or eliminate new bond purchases but is not planning to sell. Meanwhile, producer prices have skyrocketed and Americans are consuming more but…
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Raiding the World Bank: Exposing a Fondness for Dictators
I was astounded at how many despots the World Bank was propping up. Bankrolling tyrants is the equivalent of a Fugitive Slave Act for an entire nation…
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The "Acid Rain" Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex
"Science" is now indistinguishable from politics. As the "acid rain" hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, "follow the science" is just a political…
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Price Deflation and the Horrors of Falling TV Prices
Deflation empowers the citizen by allowing her modest savings to purchase more goods over time. Inflation empowers the state by reducing the size of its…
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They'll Use the Welfare State to Get Compliance on Vaccine Mandates
Regulatory powers have enabled government agencies to push vaccine mandates in new ways. But the welfare state also offers many ways to "encourage" compliance…
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The West Must Stop Trying To Expand NATO into Ukraine
The US and NATO must do as little as possible to contribute to the conflict in Ukraine. This especially includes continuing to arm Ukraine and insisting that…
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Nirvana Economics: How Treating the Real World like an Imaginary Ideal World Leads to Trouble
A lot of economic policy is based on "economics" which makes assumptions that have very little to do with actual reality. Original Article: "Nirvana Economics…
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State-Level Secession Isn't Enough. The States Themselves Must Be Radically Decentralized.
The benefits of decentralization don't stop at the state level. State governments themselves must be broken up into decentralized confederations that allow for…
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Theory and History
In the first episode of the Liberty vs. Power Podcast, Tho Bishop and Patrick Newman take a deep dive into the intellectual framework of Rothbardian historical…
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End Roe v. Wade: It's Time to Defederalize Abortion Policy
California has announced it seeks to become a "sanctuary state" for abortion should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. That is, the situation would return…
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How Market Freedom Combats Economic Inequality
Joe Biden thinks that unless there's widespread government intervention in the economy, economic inequality "brews and ferments political discord and basic…
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Money Supply Growth Is Slowing—That Points to a Slowing Economy
Easy money monetary policy only serves to weaken and destroy savings and investment. And that means weaker future economic growth. Original Article: "Money…
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The Economy May Be Finally Peaking, and the Fed Won't Help Matters
The huge amounts of monetary inflation of 2020 have indeed been translated into price inflation in 2021. Yet with the Fed now poised to slow things down, we…
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Biden Has Embraced Trump's Protectionism
Tariffs and trade controls are little more than tax increases and a chance to further empower a bloated bureaucracy. Not surprisingly, Biden doesn't appear to…
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Equality and Envy
There are many reasons why activists and intellectuals oppose inequality. Envy is one of them. Original Article: "Equality and Envy" This Audio Mises Wire is…
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Tom Woods on the Old Right
We continue our look at leading figures from the Old Right with guest Tom Woods, who helped publish the late Murray Rothbard's The Betrayal of the American…
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Poland's Beef with the EU Shows the Dangers of Political Centralization
The more the EU micromanages Polish internal affairs and punishes Poland for the simple act of exercising self-determination, more the benefits of leaving the…
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When Fiat Currency Stops Being Money
If the private sector does not accept a currency as a general means of payment and a store of value, the currency becomes worthless and ceases to be money…
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How Governments Seized Control of Money
It took many centuries for regimes to secure the sort of prestige and power necessary to claim a monopoly over money. From the state's perspective, it has been…
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The DC Sniper Rampage: The Biggest Police Debacle of the Century?
The Washington area was traumatized for weeks by two dimwitted psychopaths who rode around brazenly shooting people from the trunk of their ancient Chevrolet…
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Africa's Long History of Trade and Markets
Capitalism is not a "legacy of colonialism" in Africa. In fact, markets and interregional trade have long been practiced on the continent. And markets today…
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Rural Voters, Guns, and Decentralization Sank the Democrats in Virginia
A big factor behind Youngkin’s electoral success in Virginia: the rural voter and their reaction to Richmond's overreach on guns, schools, and centralized…
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The Bank of Canada's Failed Mission to "Preserve the Value of Money"
The Bank of Canada's stated mission is "to preserve the value of money by keeping inflation low and stable." Yet, the BOC works to inflate away the value of…
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We've Only Just Begun to See the Benefits of the New Surge in Homeschooling
For decades, countless parents have been on autopilot when it comes to letting the state manage their child's education. But over the past two years, millions…
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This Professor Hates the Austrian School. But He Clearly Doesn't Know Much about It.
Larson's principal targets are Friedman and Hayek, but Mises and Rothbard are not spared. For Larson, promarket economists aren't just wrong. They're bad…
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We're All Talking about Inflation, but Deflation May Also Be on the Way
When prices fall as a result of rising wealth that's good news. But deflation is also good news when it follows the bursting of a financial bubble caused by…
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Housing Hubris: Can Home Prices Spiral upward Forever?
The causes of today's skyrocketing housing prices are different in many ways from what happened in 2008. But that doesn't mean we're barreling toward a happy…
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Murray Rothbard versus the Public Choice School
James Buchanan thought the state was a voluntary institution. Murray Rothbard, on the other hand, understood the reality of state violence and coercion…
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The Critical Need for Independent Media
Includes an introduction by Tom Woods. Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on December 4, 2021. Ron Paul's two campaigns for president (2008 and 2012) were…
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Joe Weisenthal Thinks Debasing the Dollar Is the Moral Thing to Do
In one recent thread, Weisenthal mocked the people worried about the falling purchasing power of the US dollar, and claimed that it would be immoral for…
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The Inca Empire: An Indigenous Leviathan State
So oppressive was the Inca regime that it's no wonder the Spaniards found many enemies willing to help topple the empire. Original Article: "The Inca Empire…
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Lessons from the Ron Paul Revolution
Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on December 4, 2021. Ron Paul's two campaigns for president (2008 and 2012) were watershed moments for liberty-minded people…
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The Heroic Draft Dodgers of the American Civil War
Not all of America’s young men of the North bought into the federal propaganda. When the federal government was forced to resort to a military draft, many…
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Why Don’t Police Unions Protect Whistleblowers?
It is clear that there are situations in which the unions’ interests diverge from the public’s interest in transparency and good policing. But the unions’…
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End the Fed! How Ron Paul Made Monetary Policy an Issue
Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist. Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on December 4, 2021. Ron Paul's two campaigns for president (2008 and 2012) were…
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The Ron Paul Doctrine
Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on December 4, 2021. Ron Paul's two campaigns for president (2008 and 2012) were watershed moments for liberty-minded people…
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Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on December 4, 2021. Ron Paul's two campaigns for president (2008 and 2012) were watershed moments for liberty-minded people…
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Jim Bovard on H.L. Mencken
HL Mencken is the writer you need to read immediately. He was savagely brilliant, caustic, and witty, but also prolific across genres in ways almost…
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"Going Cashless" Isn't as Easy as It Seems
The fact that various electronic money transfers are taking place does not mean that we do not require cash any longer. On the contrary, the fact that the cash…
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It's Time for the US To Stop Courting Conflict with Russia
Biden's team is dominated by liberal internationalists, and just as their aggressive approach to China is the wrong one to take in the Indo-Pacific, it has…
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Patrick Newman on Cronyism in Early US History
Patrick Newman is a fellow at the Mises Institute who have just published his new book. He talks about Rothbard's approach to history, whether the US…
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That Bangladesh Mask Study!
Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, who recently got hold of and analyzed the raw data…
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Jenin Younes on Legal Challenges to Vaccine Mandates
Our guest is Jenin Younes, a Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. She joins us to discuss her involvement in advocacy and in legal…
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Smallpox: The Historical Myths behind Mandatory Vaccines
Vaccine mandates are not a new invention, and states have long pushed a narrative exaggerating the success of mandates in the past. Original Article…
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The Virginia Elections Showed Some Parents Are Seeing How Bad the Government Schools Really Are
If there’s one political fight worth seeing through, it’s the crusade against government schooling. Many parents in Virginia may have started to see just how…
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No, Inflation Is Not Good for You
According to the Marxists and their fellow travelers, inflation is good because it transfers wealth from creditors to debtors, and debtors are "the 99…
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The REAL ID Means a Real Leviathan
While 9/11 is mainly forgotten, a deafening trumpet announces the presence of other supposed crises, such as covid and climate change. The Leviathan is now…
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The Oklahoma National Guard Refused the Vax Mandate. The Pentagon Is Not Pleased.
Combined with the US military’s turn toward “woke” politics, this latest episode around vaccine mandates will further help to undermine support for military…
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Homicide Rates in 2020 Surged to a 24-Year High. It's Another Sign of a Failing Regime.
Homicide rose at a remarkably fast rate in 2020. This may be a sign that the public is losing faith in the legitimacy of the regime. We see this from doubts…
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Is the Constitution Broken beyond Repair?
"No one, including Andrew Jackson, had ever explicitly argued before [Lincoln] that the Constitution authorized or obligated full-scale invasion and coercive…
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The Classical Liberal Theory of Empire
Ralph Raico examines the history and ideology of imperialism—and why the state loves war and empire so much. From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism…
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Nullification Works: Republicans Look to Legalize Marijuana as States Ignore Federal Drug War
The ongoing success of the cannabis nullification effort has shown the uselessness of those who repeatedly chant slogans about “federal supremacy” and “If you…
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Since 2008, Monetary Policy Has Cost American Savers about $4 Trillion
After thirteen years with on average negative real returns to conservative savings, it is time to require the Federal Reserve to address its impact on savers…
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Antitrust Regulation Assumes Bureaucrats Know the "Correct" Amount of Competition
The process of learning what’s most efficient and profitable includes merging with competitors and taking over different stages of the supply chain—all tactics…
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Garet Garrett's "The Revolution Was"
Garet Garrett was among the most important figures from the literary, political, and laissez-faire economic traditions of the Old Right, but his name is hardly…
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Is Price Stability Really a Good Thing?
Contrary to popular thinking, there is no such thing as a price level that should be stabilized by the central bank in order to promote economic prosperity…
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China's Financial Bubbles Remind Us of Scams like Britain's South Sea Bubble
It never ends well: to clean up mountains of bad debts, the Chinese regime has employed debt-for-equity schemes that could leave countless ordinary investors…
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Will the Next "Skyscraper Curse" Be Found in the Digital World?
Our largest skyscrapers exist no longer physically, but in a world of ones and zeroes. The most groundbreaking technology projects springing from malinvestment…
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Biden's Infrastructure Plan Points to Even More Price Inflation
An additional—and quick—$1 trillion spending boost in energy-intensive and material consuming industries is likely to create new problems in terms of inflation…