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The Fed Plans to Raise Interest Rates—Years from Now
The Fed isn’t here to take away the punch bowl anymore. The Fed is the punch bowl. Original Article: "The Fed Plans to Raise Interest Rates— Years from Now"…
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Is There Such a Thing as Good Inflation?
Unlike the ongoing price inflation that is typically caused by central-bank expansion of the money supply, the price inflation generated by diminished supplies…
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The Feds Collect Most of the Taxes in America—So They Have Most of the Power
The federal government collects a lot more in taxes than the state governments do. And the feds also spend a lot more. This tells us a lot about how the…
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Experts Said Ending Lockdowns Would Be Worse for the Economy than the Lockdowns Themselves. They Were Wrong.
The experts claimed that if any state ended its stay-at-home orders “prematurely,” its economy would become even more devastated than if it remained locked…
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Why Biden Wants a Cap on State and Local Tax Deductions
The SALT tax deduction allows state and local taxes—like property taxes—to be deducted from federal taxes. To cap it is to pave the way for the federal…
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Mortgage Companies Cash in on Pandemic Relief
“Mortgage companies have ramped up their purchases of government-backed mortgages in forbearance, and they are selling these loans back to investors at a…
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Rothbard on Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty
Murray Rothbard's seminal 1965 essay "Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty" reads every bit as well today as it did 50 years ago. Rothbard defines…
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Thanks to Federal Megaspending, the Trade Deficit Has Only Gotten Worse
The chronic US trade deficit is a direct result of the dollar’s status as the world’s main reserve currency and unabated monetary increases in government…
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3 Common Criticisms of Crypto—and Why They're Wrong
Peter Schiff is a well-known critic of bitcoin, and while he is an excellent resource on many economic and political topics, he misses the mark on…
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Why Producer Prices (Like Lumber Prices) Are Rising Faster Than the CPI
Why have prices of building materials soared while consumer prices are relatively stable? This is easier to understand once we reject the myth of monetary…
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The Real Trickle-Down Effect: Making "Luxuries" Affordable to Regular People
The "trickle down" effect is real in how capitalists are motivated to expand affordability of their products and services. Mobile phones and air travel were…
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Why America's Oligarchs Are Moving Left
Wokeness may now be a public relations strategy—a method of appealing to the moral sensibilities of the upper-middle-class woke American consumer. Original…
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With Home Prices Soaring, Shoppers Fear Buying at the Top of a Bubble
The concerns about a bubble implies those shopping for a new home are wondering if they are walking into a trap. Home prices have soared and no one wants to…
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John Tamny on When Politicians Panicked
Financial journalist John Tamny has written the definitive book on the disastrous political mismanagement of Covid-19—and the resulting (still unfolding)…
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Why Keynes Was Wrong about Unemployment
Henry Hazlitt’s second law is the observation that everything in Keynes's General Theory is either unoriginal or untrue. Keynes's theory of unemployment…
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Why the US Supports Secession for Africans, but Not for Americans
The United States has long supported the idea of secession and "self-determination" for some faraway colonies. But the US regime is careful to define…
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Can States Nullify Federal Gun Laws?
In June 2021, Missouri passed a new law stating it would not assist in the enforcement of federal gun laws. Tho and Ryan discuss how states can use strategies…
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Is Guaranteed Basic Income the Solution to Robots Taking Our Jobs?
The automation doomers assume that when jobs are eliminated by automation in one place, that the number of jobs are permanently gone. For this to be true…
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Much Ado about Nothing in the Art Market
The recent sale of an invisible statue for £13,000 is symptomatic of the thoroughgoing financialization of our economy. Investors have become ever more…
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The Policy and Politics of Cancer Care, with Ted Okon
Our guest is Ted Okon, a nationally recognized expert on the policy and politics of cancer care. Mr. Okon has testified before Congress on cancer issues and is…
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El Salvador Blazes the Path to Bitcoinization
An unbanked population, an economy dependent on remittances, and dollarization. These combine to make El Salvador a perfect case study for bitcoinization…
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Follow the (Economic) Science: Why Lockdowns Were Bad Pandemic Policy
"It's the economic science people need to listen to to figure out if there is a rationale for a type of government regulation during this pandemic, and if so…
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Guatemala: The Human Rights Nightmare That Is the US Drug War
Biden's plan to give more money to Central American regimes will do nothing to compensate farmers, businessmen, and others still victimized by the US war on…
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What Did Bob Learn? Part 3 of 3
Bob concludes his series on areas where he’s changed his mind. This episode covers the economics of climate change, fractional reserve banking, the US gold…
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Matt McCaffrey on Entrepreneurship and Chinese Military History
Matt McCaffrey is an Austrian economist who is currently associate professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Manchester. He talks with Bob about…
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Texas Says It Can Enforce Immigration Restrictions. Texas Is Right
However one may feel about immigrants, both historical experience and an honest reading of the US Constitution makes it clear that the federal government is…
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What Canada Can Teach Us about Medical Freedom
Peter St. Onge explains how government-sector healthcare in Canada is aging, lower-quality, and generally behind the times. After all, in Canada, as everywhere…
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Imagining a Better Way: Foundations of a Healthy Healthcare System
"The groupthink that exists among scholars of healthcare, among policymakers, among politicians—even among the public—is alarming." A new world of medical…
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Bringing the Free Market to the Healthcare Bazar
A new world of medical entrepreneurship is growing. Concierge and cash-only practices, walk-in cash clinics, medical tourism, and cost-sharing plans are just a…
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How Medical Innovation Happens: Cash Clinics in Pharmacies and Big Box Stores
"Austrian economics is very much the economics of innovation, because we understand change, we understand uncertainty, and we understand that there is a…
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Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty Finale with Roberta Modugno
Professor Roberta Modugno joins the show to finish our look at Rothbard's seminal treatise on normative libertarianism, The Ethics of Liberty. Dr. Modugno…
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Pregnant Woman Tries to Comply with Police Orders, Then the Cop Attacks Her
Pregnant Nicole Harper was doing what she was supposed to do: she was slowing down and signaling that she was looking for a safe place to pull over. That's…
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Direct Primary Care: Aligning Incentives in Healthcare
"Primary Care is about access, continuity, and responsibility." A new world of medical entrepreneurship is growing. Concierge and cash-only practices, walk-in…
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The Real Tax Scandal
Federal income taxes are almost entirely about control and not revenue. The byzantine rules and selective enforcement are perfectly designed to keep ordinary…
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How the Surgery Center of Oklahoma Tapped the Cash Market
"The cronies and their government pals are increasingly exposed. As the co-founder of the Free Market Medical Association, I am filled with optimism watching…
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Can Economics Save Medicine?
Medicine is fundamentally poised for an incredible entrepreneurial breakthrough. The kind of breakthrough that will revolutionize the practice and delivery of…
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Medical Staffing and the Revolutionary Innovations We Need
Healthcare is inaccessible in many ways, and it is notoriously inefficient. There is a fundamental misalignment between patients and the system. A new world of…
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Critical Race Theory and Our Weaponized Schools
Government schools have always been tools of the regime for teaching state-approved ideology and culture. The rise of critical race theory is just the latest…
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They Don't Hate Gold Because It's Gold. They Hate It Because It's Not Government Money.
That gold was used as money in the past is merely a historical fact. But the fact that gold was a form of private money, and thus not easily manipulated for…
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Why Corporate Lobbyists and Special Interest Groups Won't Go Away
Today, the political system really is in many ways what H.L. Mencken suggested when he described elections as a sort of "advance auction of stolen goods." The…
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Why "Wild Swings" in Crypto Prices Are Not Really a Problem
Price "stability" has never been a feature of a free marketplace. Stability is an obsession of central banks, and the day may come when central bankers…
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Canadian Secession: Then and Now
Just as Canada had the right to secede from Britain, so too do the provinces and territories have a right to secede from Canada. Today, secession may be…
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How Defamation Suits Are Used to Stifle Free Speech
There is no place in a free society for a government that sues private citizens for defamation. But even between private parties, defamation suits are often…
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New York Politicians Have No Idea How to Fix the Subways
New York City subways are in deep financial trouble and the quality of service is in a downward spiral. Yet even talking about privatization is verboten…
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Scott Sumner on Why the Bernanke Fed Was Too Tight
Scott Sumner is a monetary economist with the Mercatus Center. He famously argued in late 2008 that the Fed was too tight with monetary policy, and eventually…
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The Ethics of Liberty with Ryan McMaken
Mises.org editor Ryan McMaken joins the show to tackle some of the toughest and most controversial chapters of Rothbard's groundbreaking treatise The Ethics of…
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Democracy According to The Office
It’s been said by democracy’s critics that the system is essentially two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. But to its defenders, democracy has…
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Government Schools Use Covid as an Excuse to Tighten Totalitarian Grip
While the recent clamp-down on power from public universities has mainly been in the realm of speech and expression, like almost every other government…
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Jeff Deist on Black Rock and the Repo Crisis
Jeff Deist and David Gornoski talk about some of the recent news and relevant topics such as the buying up of homes by Black Rock; the federal reserve’s…
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From Pandemic to Endemic: Living with COVID-19
Our guest is Professor David Heymann, an American physician and epidemiologist based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has held leading…
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Government as the Ultimate Cause of the Tragedy of the Commons
A good definition of the tragedy of the commons is that "resources that are unowned and/or unownable will be plundered to extinction." Original Article…
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Private Security Isn't Enough: Why America Needs Militias
Private security tends to provide its services to the highest bidder. And you know that almost always ends up being the regime itself. Corn farmers just can’t…
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America Still Loves the Warfare State
The difficulty Trump encountered in trying to even slightly scale back American military schemes shows just how far Americans are from abandoning the idea that…
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Why Are Progressives Obsessed with the Transgender Policies at the College of the Ozarks?
Anyone considering going to the very conservative College of the Ozarks knows what he's getting into. Yet the Biden administration has launched a war on this…
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How Facebook Turned its Market Success Into a Culture War on America
Corporate America—from Facebook to Google to Major League Baseball—got rich by giving the consumers what they want. Now these big firms will use their riches…
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Private Security Apps May Be the Future of Neighborhood Policing
We're beginning to see some early attempts by private firms to provide simple, affordable private security beyond wealthy or corporate clients. Original…
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Decentralization: Why the EU May Be Better Than the US
It's too late for American member states to assert real independence from the central government without facing an avalanche of legal, political, and even…
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Economic Cannibalism Will Not Save Mexico, or Any Other Country
It seems absurd to have to point out that economic cannibalism, even in the face of a virus, cannot produce anything but devastation, but alas, we live in…
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Forget Hemlines. Mom Jeans Are Now an Economic Indicator.
Many have long speculated that there is a correlation between economic prosperity and the length of women's hemlines. But perhaps it's now "mom jeans," with…
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Why Is the French Government Running Off Foreign Investors?
Most people understand that it's a good thing when others invest money and capital in your community. But when Canadian investors offered to pour money into…