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Why Congress Should Default on its Debt
Washington politicos want to keep the debt going up at breakneck speed forever. But the responsible thing to do is refuse another increase to the debt ceiling…
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Why Today's Abusers of the Scientific Method Are So Dangerous
It is, ironically, antiscience to ever declare that science is settled. Since man is not omniscient, the future will forever remain unknown, and more data can…
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Berliners in 2021 Want to Expropriate Private Housing
The Berlin “housing crisis” has, of course, many causes. But most, if not all of them, are government made. Unfortunately, however, people blame “capitalists”…
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Why Does Money Have Value? Not Because the Government Says It Does.
Why do individuals desire to have money, which cannot be consumed and produces nothing? To provide an answer to this one must go back in time to establish how…
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Critiquing an MMT TED Talk
Bob provides a running refutation of Stephanie Kelton's recent TED talk on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest…
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How "Cultural Distance" between Societies Can Hamper Economic Prosperity
Cultural disparities between national, linguistic, or cultural groups can prevent the spread of trade and hamper the adoption of useful economic strategies…
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Without Lockdowns, Sweden Had Fewer Excess Deaths Than Most of Europe
Although the experts assured us Sweden would experience a disaster and a bloodbath without covid lockdowns, the Nordic nation has fared better than Europe on…
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"Shortages" Aren't Causing Inflation. Money Creation Is.
The current surge in inflation is not due to a shortage of supply as central banks want us to believe. It is primarily due to soaring consumer demand fueled by…
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Jay Bhattacharya on Public Health
Our guest is Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at Stanford University. Professor Bhattacharya is also research associate at the…
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The Roots of the Afghanistan War
While the US was able to give the Soviets a bloody nose by pouring billions into the mujahideen, it’s undeniable the US created a Frankenstein's monster that…
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Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu.
It is important to get some much-needed context when examining a disease which is being used to justify unprecedented increases in state power and violations…
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Middle of the Road Leads to Socialism: An Online Seminar with Dr. Robert Murphy
This special virtual seminar for donors to our fall campaign was livestreamed on October 8th, 2021. Jeff Deist and Bob Murphy discuss Mises's views on…
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The Postpandemic World Is One of Widespread Dependence on Government
The state is making people dependent on it, both as means for control and as an outcome of many policies intended to provide relief. Original Article: "The…
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Rothbard and Adam Smith
We continue our look at Murray Rothbard's two volume An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought with a show focused on Adam Smith. Rothbard…
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Defaulting on the Debt Is the Moral Thing to Do
Raising the debt limit will only delay the inevitable while courting fiscal and monetary chaos: higher interest rates, cuts to social programs, a declining…
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COMMON SENSE: The Case for an Independent Texas
Bob covers some of the key points in his new pamphlet on restoring the Republic of Texas. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Bob’s new…
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How the West Adopted China-Style Lockdowns
In the face of an “invisible enemy,” many Western nations have implemented emergency measures that were once considered dystopian and wholly incompatible with…
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Yellen Is Wrong. The US Government Doesn't Always Pay its Debts.
Let's stop pretending default is unprecedented. The US defaulted on debts in 1934 and again in 1979. Today it engages in de facto default through financial…
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Inflation-Loving Governments Are Now Blaming Private Businesses for Inflation
As inflation becomes more obvious, governments will be blaming businesses for causing the inflation that policymakers have fueled. This is a step on the way to…
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Canada Votes for More of the Same
Justin Trudeau won with a weak "victory" in Canadian elections last week, but he nonetheless claimed a "mandate" for vaccine passports and huge increases in…
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The Loss in Afghanistan Is Only the Latest Chapter in a Long Story of Intervention
As US military interventions continue across several continents, we should remember that much of US foreign policy is little more than cleaning up messes the…
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Joe Salerno versus Paul Krugman on Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Using a recent Paul Krugman column as the jumping off point, the Mises Institute Academic Vice President Joe Salerno explains and defends Austrian business…
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My Time with the FBI
The FBI’s power and federal legitimacy are far more tenuous than Washington recognizes. Beyond the nation’s big cities, federal authority hinges largely on the…
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Rothbard's History of Economic Thought from Greeks to Physiocrats
Was Adam Smith the founder of modern economics? Not so, says Murray Rothbard in his staggering two-volume An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic…
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Too Much Inflation? Just Raise the Inflation Target!
The new "2 percent average" standard from last year helped the inflationists, but there are now calls for scrapping the "too low" 2 percent inflation limit…
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Should War Be Made "Humane"?
Moyn fears that "humane warfare" along with programs of global surveillance, would subject the world to hegemonic control by one or a few dominant superpowers…
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Is an Educated Population Really Necessary for Innovation and Growth?
The example of England in the Industrial Revolution suggests enormous amounts of innovation and growth can be achieved even without high levels of education…
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The Public Health Officials Say "Trust Us." The Data Says Otherwise.
Despite all the data we have on lockdowns, hospitalization trends, and newly emerging vaccination data, one can only marvel at how trust in the public health…
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Europe Faces a Fragile Economy as the Merkel Era Ends
A euro collapse, rather than gas prices and bottlenecks, is the most likely source of sustained high CPI inflation in Europe following the Merkel era. Original…
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Before a Bust, There Is Always a Boom (and Malinvestment)
An economic depression is not caused by a decline in the money supply per se, but results from a shrinking pool of savings made possible by a previous bout of…
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Dr. Patrick Newman Introduces Rothbard's History of Economic Thought
Just a few years prior to his death, Murray Rothbard started one of his most ambitious writing projects: a full-fledged, three volume history of economic…
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Why "Natural Immunity" Is a Political Problem for the Regime
When asked, "'I’ve recovered from covid, is it absolutely essential that I get vaccinated?' many public health officials have put aside the data and responded…
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Why Bureaucrats Are Sitting on So Much Money-Losing Real Estate
The Feds are sitting on a huge pile of decaying buildings. A private business would sell these off, but this task is apparently too difficult for federal…
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Canadians Should Be Able to Vote "None of the Above"
The fact that NOTA is not a genuine, nonsymbolic ballot option proves that the political class merely pays lip service to the concepts of integrity and the…
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From Diseases to Recessions, Government Failure Is Endemic
As with economic policy to "cure" recessions, the authorities’ health response is good at crippling markets, but never delivers what is promised. Original…
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Covid Lockdowns Signal the Rise of Public Policy by Ransom
In the age of covid, governments have decided to embrace a new kind of policy: they'll hold the population hostage until the public complies with what the…
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In Defense of the Speculator
It will come as yesterday's news that the speculator is perennially under attack by the social justice warriors. Yet speculators serve a crucial and valuable…
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You'll Be Shocked to Learn There's Corruption at the Fed
Some fed officials simply shrugged off what was an obvious conflict of interest when they traded stocks and real estate holdings while making policy. The rules…
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Is Self-Ownership Necessary?
Isn’t a principle of nonaggression against others another way of stating the self-ownership principle? "Not necessarily," says the insightful philosopher…
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Pandemic Ethics: Is Public Health Out of Control?
Our guest is Euzebiusz (Zeb) Jamrozik, MD, PhD, a practicing internal medicine physician and fellow in ethics and infectious diseases at the Wellcome Centre…
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US Military Propaganda in Film, Sports, and TV: It's Everywhere
From the darkened cinema to the football field to the airport screening line, the US government inflated the actual threat of terrorism and the necessity of an…
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Can Economic Data Explain the Timing and Causes of Recessions?
Without establishing the underlying causes of boom-bust cycles, employing policies in response to changes in economic indicators to counter economic cycles is…
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What They Really Mean When They Say "Do the Right Thing"
When a politician says "do the right thing," what he means is "do what I say, or else." Original Article: "What They Really Mean When They Say 'Do the Right…
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The Fed Is Helping Facilitate Trailer Park Evictions
The Fed is dumping cash into Fannie and Freddie which is helping investors buy up more trailer parks. Original Article: "The Fed Is Helping Facilitate Trailer…
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War Has Declined in the West Because War Isn't "Worth It" for Rich Countries
Thanks to private property, trade, and the Industrial Revolution, there isn't much to be gained from wars among rich countries anymore. But things are…
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A Legacy of Corruption in the FDA and Big Pharma
As long as Big Pharma wants it, and if there's a profit to be made, apparently our government will be there to provide lots of taxpayer funding. Actual…
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Biden's Vaccine Mandates: It's about Power
Biden's vaccine mandates are yet another dangerous frontier in using a perceived or real crisis to justify an immense expansion in state power and control over…
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Foreign Policy: Against Liberal Hegemony
For the foreign-policy non-interventionist, some schools of thought in international relations are much better than others. "Liberal hegemony" (the favored…
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The Fed's Plan Is Failing: Stagflation Looms as Job Growth Stalls
The Fed’s apparent plan to somehow get to full employment and then deal with inflation sounds nice, but reality could easily derail the plan. Meanwhile, job…
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What Texas's Unilateral Immigration Policy Tells Us about Washington
What we’re beginning to see is policy ghettoization, wherein states pass laws that the most fervent activists on the left and right, respectively, cannot enact…
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Rebutting Paul Krugman on the "Austrian" Pandemic
Paul Krugman’s “logical problem” with ABCT derives entirely from his superficial understanding of the theory. Original Article: "Rebutting Paul Krugman on the…
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Why the Fed Is So Desperate to Hide Price Inflation
The Fed is backed into a corner. If price inflation continues, the public could demand action and the Fed could be forced to cut back the flow of easy money…
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How to Cheat with Cost-Benefit Analysis: Double Count the Benefits
Calculating "multiplier effects" is perhaps the most common method of cheating with benefit-cost analysis. Original Article: "How to Cheat with Cost-Benefit…
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Is California an Economic Paradise? Paul Krugman Thinks So
The people who really run California aren't going anywhere. Even if California voters throw out Newsom very little will change in state government. Original…
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Mark Spitznagel Teaches the Economists How to Invest
Bob reviews Mark Spitznagel's latest book, Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms, on which he was a consultant. Bob explains that Spitznagel rejects the…
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Against Biden's Mandates
Contra Mr. Biden, this is entirely about freedom and personal choice. Original Article: "Against Biden's Mandates" This Audio Mises Wire is generously…
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Misadventures in Fibrillation
Our guests are Thomas Wingert, a patient, Bogdan Enache, an electrophysiologist at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monaco, and Saurabh Jha, an Associate…
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Slippery Slope Arguments and Tyranny
Some slippery slope arguments are a case of bad reasoning, but those presented by Mises and Hayek are not among them. Original Article: "Slippery Slope…
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China Isn't About to Become a Superpower
China faces a wide variety of demographic, geopolitical, and economic limits on the regime's power. And, socialism and Keynesianism don't work any better in…
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Murray Sabrin's New Book on Escaping Medical Fascism
On the heels of Biden's vaccine mandate announcement, Dr. Murray Sabrin joins the show to discuss his new book on escaping the state's medical fascism…