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How Nigeria's Central Bank Inflates the Money Supply
The Nigerian central bank uses all the same tools as other central banks. And it uses them a lot. Original Article: "How Nigeria's Central Bank Inflates the…
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The Toxic Politicization of Society
Tho Bishop, guest-hosting A Neighbor's Choice, interviews Jonathan Newman, author of The Broken Window. Tho and Jonathan discuss the supposedly transitory…
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Cronyism, Not Welfare, Is China's Big Problem
In an economy where the ruling party controls enormous portions of the economy, attempts to redistribute some of that state-owned wealth isn't necessarily a…
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Industrial Policy—a.k.a. Central Planning—Won't Make America Great
China's industrial policy has been marked by many failures and few successes. Rather, China's real growth has been fueled by the regime's limited turn to…
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In a Free Economy, Prices Would Be Going down, Not Up
In an age of growing productivity and technological advancement, goods would be getting cheaper every year. This is a reason why price inflation rises more…
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Thanks to Bailouts, Wall Street Banks Are More Fragile than Ever
After the Lehman collapse, Wall Street learned nothing. In fact, Wall Street instead embraced Too Big to Fail which means the financial sector is more…
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Employer Vaccine Mandates: When the Feds Pay the Piper, They Call the Tune
Vaccine mandates are much easier to enforce thanks to the spread of government spending, government contracting, and monopolized government services. Original…
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Why China's Property Bubble Is a Big Deal
China’s real estate problems are three: the massive size of the sector, its excessive leverage, and the amount of developer debt in the hands of average…
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Panel: "Strategic Alternatives in Education"
Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann…
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Panel: “Entrepreneurship vs. The State”
The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the…
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Paul Gottfried on the Virginia Election
McAuliffe could not dissociate himself entirely from national politics because he was a national Democratic figure closely allied to the Clintons for decade…
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Realistic Prospects for Secession and Decentralization
This week's show features a panel discussion recorded in late October at our annual Supporters Summit. Panelists Ryan McMaken, Jeff Deist, Mike Maharrey, and…
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The Madness of Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains
The new proposal is framed as a tax on the ultrarich. The same was true of the new income tax in 1913. If given the power to tax unrealized gains, expect the…
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How Media and Tech Elites Seized Control of Elections
Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and…
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Libertarian Strategy from the Jacksonians
On the latest Free Man beyond the Wall podcast, Pete Quiñones, Patrick Newman, and Tho Bishop discuss Andrew Jackson and his cadre who fought against central…
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Panel: "Are Universities Too Far Gone?"
Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann…
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Pope Francis Blames Capitalism for World Hunger, Yet Again
Francis should note that the move toward freer markets, in India and China especially, resulted in the huge reduction in extreme poverty we have witnessed over…
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Marxism versus Libertarianism: Two Types of Internationalism
Internationalism in the interpretation of libertarian philosophy and Marxist doctrine are two completely different concepts. One is a natural outcome of human…
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The Historical Origins of Modern American War Crimes
In many ways, the American war crimes of Korea and Vietnam were a continuation of American military conduct in the Civil War and during the Indian wars…
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The Federal Reserve’s Assault on Savers Continues
Any economist should have been able to see that having the monetary spigot on full blast to “stimulate” would raise prices down the road. We are now down that…
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Will Hungary and Poland be the Next Victims of US/EU Regime Change?
Not even the US’s ostensible allies can escape. NATO members Hungary and Poland were called "totalitarian regimes" by Biden because the two countries have run…
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Contract Rights Are Not the Same as Natural Rights
Contracts are voidable and thoroughly changeable. They can be totally ignored with the consent of both parties. But natural rights are not like contracts and…
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The Fed's Inflation Is behind the Supply Chain Mess
The idea that supply chain problems are “driving inflation” gets the causation backward. It’s money supply inflation that’s causing the supply chain problems…
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The Tragedy of the Government's Ban on Human Organ Sales
New tech shows some light at the end of the tunnel. But for decades, government bans on a market for human organs has condemned millions of people to early…
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Protectionism Is Immoral, Unjust, and Corrupt
If a businessman pulls a gun on a customer and demands 20 percent more for a product, that is robbery. If a politician intervenes to the same effect, it is…
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A Global Fiat Currency: "One Ring to Rule Them All"
The One Ring of power stands for the particularly evil idea of creating a state of states, a world government, a world state. A one-world fiat currency is…
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A Strategy Against Woke
Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann…
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A Strategy for Medical Freedom
Includes an introduction by Joey Clark. Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly…
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A Strategy for the Austrian School
Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. Slides used in this talk are available here. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy…
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Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America
Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist and audience question and answer period. Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 21, 2021. Find Dr. Newman's new…
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How to Think About Big Tech
Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann…
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Panel: "Realistic Prospects for Secession and Decentralization"
Includes an introduction by Joey Clark. Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021. The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly…
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Digitalization Could Move Medical Care beyond "Government Healthcare"
Government healthcare is centrally planned healthcare. Innovations in the decentralized "digitalization" of medicine could finally move medicine back in the…
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Election 2021 Autopsy: Dem Disaster in VA
"Let's Go Brandon!" scored an early win in Virginia, and hurt Democrats in New Jersey. Suburban voters seem to hate Critical Race Theory in schools more than…
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Thanks to Central Banks, the Old Investment Rules Don't Apply Anymore
Thanks to central banks' easy money policies, historically low interest rates and a desperate search for yield have created new danger zones for investors…
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Why Interventionist Economists Love to Talk about Externalities
Step 1: claim that only government can solve the problem of "externalities." Step 2: claim that externalities are everywhere. Step 3: send in bureaucrats to…
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Three Ways Government Spending Is Ripping Us Off
Whether through taxes, debt, or inflation, government spending is about ripping off the productive taxpayers. Argentina's inflation and runaway deficits…
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Where Does Social Order Come From? Not the State.
The more an economy is centrally planned, the more chaotic are the relationships within it. The freer people are to make their arrangements in the market, the…
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"Idle Resources" Are Problems Caused by the Central Bank
It is not possible to replace productive credit by means of the easy monetary policies of the central bank. If this could have been done, then the world would…
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Yes, They Are Coming for the Oil Companies
The Biden administration will use the SEC to squeeze oil and gas companies on "climate risk." As is typical for progressive schemes that drive up the cost of…
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Three Things the Fed Must Do to Normalize Bond Markets
Policy normalization—defined as closing down the nonconventional toolbox and restoring a well-functioning price-signaling mechanism to the bond market—is…
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Who Will Build the Roads? Anyone Who Stands to Benefit from Them.
The appropriate question is not “Who will build the roads?” but rather “Who will pay for them without taxation?” History suggests the answer is "lots of…
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Daniel McAdams on the Ron Paul Doctrine
Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute joins the show to discuss what might be termed the Ron Paul Doctrine: a combination of laissez-faire at home…
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GDP Tells Us Little about the Health of an Economy
If people decide to save rather than spend, this could lead to a fall in GDP, even though people are becoming better off beyond the short term. Original…
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What Spooner Can Teach Us in Our Age of Neofascism
Neo-Spoonerism: there is no treason against the federal government, because the federal government does not abide by the document which it claims as its…
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Governments Love Inflation, and They Won't Do Anything to Stop It
In spite of what they say, governments will do nothing about inflation. Even though "money printing" is the real cause of this, governments will just keep…
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How the West Pushed back the Frontiers of Death
Thanks to capital accumulation and other innovations in the West, life expectancy grew beyond anything previously imagined. The benefits spread from there…
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How the Fed's Easy Money Spurred Today's Financial Frenzies
It was government policies that kick-started the engine of financial innovation, wrongly blamed by many in the press and left-leaning academia for this…
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Why a Bear Market in Bonds Points to a Weakening Economy
Years of bubbles and malinvestment have a downside: the destruction of the productive, wealth-building parts of the economy. And that could mean higher…
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The Weak Jobs Report Shows the Failure of Keynesian Policies
We can see that these massive trillion-dollar stimulus programs generate a virtually nonexistent long-term positive impact, just a short-term bounce that lasts…
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Why Did Google Ads Ban LewRockwell.com?
Google says it can only tolerate "accurate" information and has banned LewRockwell.com from its advertising program. This position only makes sense if one…
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Polygamy Is a Problem for Economic Development
Research reveals that in sub-Saharan Africa children in polygamous families are 24.4 times more likely to die when compared with children in monogamous…
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The CIA Has Stultified American Consciences
Anyone with a conscience can easily see that assassinating Julian Assange would be just plain murder. Yet, the reaction to all this from the mainstream press…
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Joe Salerno on Rothbard's History of Economic Thought
We wrap up our look at Murray Rothbard's sprawling two volume An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought with Dr. Joe Salerno, Rothbard's…
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The UK's National "Crisis": Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2008 Levels
Age-adjusted mortality in the UK rose in 2020 to the same level last experienced in 2008. Yet the government declared no national health crisis in those years…
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We're Living in a Chaos Economy. Here's How to End It.
The chaos economy we're witnessing is not the fault of the market economy. Rather prices in some areas of the economy need to rise so high and so fast to…
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Don’t Expect Foreign Policy Experts to be Held Accountable for Afghanistan
Until there’s a new foreign policy class informed by an outlook of restraint, no kind of punishment or demotion of those who prosecuted the bungled wars of the…
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Pre-Columbian America Wasn't Exactly a Paradise of Freedom
The story of the Americas as the violent “pacifying” and corralling of free indigenous peoples by white outsiders erases the long history of statism in many…
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The US’s Fantastical Foreign Policy: Sowing the Seeds of Failure
After 9/11, the security establishment was giddy about embarking on a global democratic crusade against any nation that did not submit to the US’s liberal…
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Nord Stream 2: The Value of German-Russian Cooperation
Hopefully, increased interdependence and overlapping interests will help to shape a future of stability in Europe and continue the precious absence of another…