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More Evidence the American Economic "Recovery" Will Disappoint
Two things should concern us. First, the weakness of the recovery in the middle of the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus seen in decades, and second, the…
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There's No Conflict between Profit and "Social Responsibility"
The "People over Profits" mantra is once again is being heard in Washington. But this time we're hearing about it from business lobbyists themselves who are…
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"What Did Bob Learn?" Part 2 of 3
In response to a listener request, Bob continues a 3-part series explaining areas where his views have changed. In this episode, he covers government debt and…
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The Bogus January 6 Commission Poses a Real Threat to Freedom
Biden and congressional Democrats are seeking to turbocharge their push for a new domestic terrorism law to permit widespread federal crackdowns on their…
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Why Economic Models Can't Provide a Realistic Picture of Human Behavior
Mises: "The experience with which the sciences of human action have to deal is always an experience of complex phenomena. No laboratory experiments can be…
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China's New Pandemic: A Bond Default Crisis
As the world’s second-largest economy attempts to return to its precrisis glory days, Beijing could potentially deal with a new pandemic that could have a…
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Why Cause-of-Death Stats Aren't as Reliable as the CDC Wants You to Think
Like any other piece of aggregate government data, cause-of-death data is used to justify new government interventions and policies. But there are good reasons…
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Inflation Is Great If You're Already Rich
We've seen pictures of empty shelves in Venezuela. Meantime, the one-year return on the Caracas stock exchange is 1,804.92 percent. If you're already rich in…
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Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty with Stephan Kinsella
Lawyer and legal theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show as we dive into Part II of Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty, grappling with the foundational issues…
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Does Bitcoin Use "Too Much" Electricity?
Elizabeth Warren has decided that bitcoin mining uses "too much" electricity. This raises an important question: Is Senator Warren qualified to decide on the…
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Let's Level the Playing Field between the Dollar and Competing Currencies
Thanks to so many government restrictions on the use of potential monies that aren’t the dollar, we can only guess as to what the relationship between dollars…
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How Covid Put an End to Your Right to Due Process
The covid panic brought an end to due process in many ways. Among these are the end of speedy trials and the end of a timely hearing for landlords to obtain…
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"What Did Bob Learn?" Part 1 of 3
In response to a listener request, Bob starts a 3-part series explaining areas where his views have changed. In this episode, he covers trade deficits, justice…
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America's Corporate Thought Police
It is no surprise that the corporate media tends to showcase and honor experts whose views tend to reflect the views of media pundits and editors themselves…
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Investors Won't Buy the "Transitory" Inflation Line
Governments always justify printing more money with the excuse that there is no inflation. When inflation rises, they say it is transitory. And when inflation…
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The Real Estate Boom in Vegas Is More Frenzied Than Ever
In Las Vegas, asset price inflation is combining with rising prices on building materials to create a real estate bubble of remarkable proportions. Original…
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The Dystopian Future in Which Almost No One Owns a Car
Some advocates of self-driving cars argue that their adoption would mean that very few people would actually own a vehicle anymore. We'd all just rent rides on…
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These European Countries Beat Poverty and Increased Wealth with Low Taxes and Low Regulation
Social democrats love to denounce low-tax, probusiness regimes as "neoliberal" and as places with more poverty. But the reality is that parts of Europe that…
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Walter Block on The Ethics of Liberty
Murray Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty is a sweeping treatise which creates nothing short of a normative political philosophy of liberty. Contra Hume…
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The Media Wants You to Trust Washington Again Now That Trump Is Gone
Perhaps reporter Michelle Kosinski is unaware that the Trump-era secrecy she denounced flourished mightily thanks to the beloved Obama administration…
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Why Fungibility Is Important in Understanding Money and Crypto
One of the most in-demand aspects of physical cash is that it is totally fungible. Every dollar is the same as every dollar. But cryptocurrencies can leave a…
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Biden's Family Leave Is Yet Another Attack on the Family
Only a bureaucrat would assume that putting a small child in public school is just as effective as keeping the child at home with a parent. Unfortunately for…
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Boom to Bust: How Inflation Turns into Deflation
Seemingly endless amounts of fiscal and monetary stimulus will keep prices rising in the near term. But if the banking sector and other bubble industries…
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Vijay Boyapati Explains Why He Was Right About Inflation in 2010 and Bitcoin in 2018
Vijay Boyapati left a lucrative job at Google in 2007 to move to New Hampshire and campaign for Ron Paul. In this episode, Vijay explains why the other…
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The Ruling Class Only Cares about Democracy When It Helps Them
Democracy is only acceptable when the outcome is what the ruling class wants. Fortunately, the federal courts are always handy to overturn the results of free…
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We Cannot Build an Economy on Lies
American journalists and academics have invented a fairy tale in which "free market orthodoxy" has dominated political thinking in America for the past forty…
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Milton Friedman's Methodological Mistake
Key methodological differences between Austrians were highlighted in Milton Friedman's "The Methodology of Positive Economics." A key piece of conflict…
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Social Media's Algorithms Aren't Really Controlling You
Senator Hawley wants government regulation of social media, and he insists that social media companies are somehow controlling and manipulating people. But…
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Three Reasons Why the Biden Tax Increase Makes No Sense
Biden’s tax increase plan does not make sense from a growth, revenue, or deficit perspective, and it does virtually nothing to address the real problem…
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Vaccine Passports Are Just a Way for the Regime to Expand Its Power
Advocates for vaccine passports are a bit like abusive husbands. They say they want to be nice to you. But you keep screwing up and refusing to take your…
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Local Nullification: A Way to Fight Both State and Federal Despots
Local nullification offers a practical guide to resisting tyranny in a way that reflects the real wishes of local community members against the ivory-tower…
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The Fed Embraces Its Inner Zimbabwean
With Jerome Powell and Janet Yellen focusing on using monetary policy to manage climate change, the M1 money supply has gone parabolic, from just over $4…
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No, Conservatives Should Not Embrace MMT
Instead of trying to spin conservative justifications for disastrous monetary policy, conservatives should join libertarians and classical liberals in working…
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Tobacco Smokers: America's Most Persecuted Minority
If today they come for the smoker, tomorrow they will come for you. Neo-Prohibitionism has been long on the march. Original Article: "Tobacco Smokers…
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How Trillions in Newly Printed Money Created a Labor Shortage
The US has millions of idle workers. In a normal economy this would put a damper on demand. But in our money-printing economy, consumer demand is surging even…
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Jeff Herbener and Bob Murphy Discuss the Pure Time Preference Theory of Interest
Jeff Herbener is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute and an economics professor at Grove City College. At the 2021 Austrian Economics Research Conference…
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Robert Murphy on History and New Developments in Austrian Interest Theory
Bob gives a guest lecture for Jonathan Newman’s MA course for the Mises Institute, on the history of, and new developments in, the pure time preference theory…
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The Faith of Entrepreneurs
For the entrepreneur in a market economy, nothing is a sure thing. Every business is only a short step from bankruptcy. No business possesses the power to make…
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The Fundamental Economic Problem with Biden's Rescue Plan
Do huge wealth redistribution schemes like Biden's new plan actually make people better off? Some people will get a net benefit. How how numerous are they? How…
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The United States Has Declared Defeat in Two More Wars
Now that the average American voter is barely paying attention—and that the US is facing an economic crisis and weak recovery—it has become politically…
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Vengeance and Sacrifice: Whiteness as Scapegoat in Critical Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies
The ideas of critical race theory and critical white studies shield a ruling elite from vengeance by attempting to make the mass of white people the scapegoat…
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The Bureaucrat as a Voter
Representative democracy cannot subsist if a great part of the voters are on the government payroll. If elected officials no longer consider themselves…
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How Markets Have Delivered More Economic Equality
People must still compete for resources in a socialist economy. In fact, the competition is intense. On the other hand, thanks to markets, basic…
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It's Time to End the Embargo against Cuba
Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the US government lift its six-decade economic embargo against Cuba? Don't bet…
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Rothbard on the Betrayal of the American Right
America's "Old Right"—rooted in 19th century liberalism but birthed in the 1930s to oppose the New Deal—was strongly laissez-faire and non-interventionist…
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Thanks to the Fed, the High-Risk, Small-Time Borrower Is Becoming a Thing of the Past
The central bank has basically destroyed the business of risk, and commercial real estate remains a looming disaster. As a result, banks aren't lending to…
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The US Recovery Is Weak, Especially Given the Size of the "Stimulus"
It seems that governments want to convince us that they have saved the world when the reality is that the misguided lockdowns were the cause of the economic…
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No, Dogecoin Does Not Compete with Bitcoin
Medium of exchange and store of value are very different products. Original Article: "No, Dogecoin Does Not Compete with Bitcoin" This Audio Mises Wire is…
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Not Even Gretchen Whitmer Wants More of the CDC's Lockdowns
The political climate that fostered panic and lockdowns a year ago is now changing. Legislatures are turning against governors and the public is no longer…
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Texas Ended Lockdowns and Mask Mandates. Now Locked-Down States Are Where Covid Is Growing Most
Don’t expect Fauci and his supporters to give up on insisting that New York and Michigan are doing "the right thing" while Texas and Florida are embracing…
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You Won't Learn Much about Fascism in this Book on "Fascism"
Jason Stanley's book on fascism is a jumbled mess which seems primarily to exist for the purpose of smearing everything Stanley doesn't like with the label of…
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A Rights- and Logic-Based Approach to Pandemics
We all are too familiar with the approach to pandemics taken by governments at all levels in the US. Original Article: "A Rights- and Logic-Based Approach to…
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The American Right is the New Target of Washington's "War on Terror"
Since January there has been a concerted effort by Democrat leaders, former deep state officials, and America’s most despicable neoconservatives to push the…
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Bob Murphy on Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Rothbard called Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit "the best book on money ever written." But Rothbard himself may have written the best money book for lay…
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A Jobless Recovery Is Coming to Europe
The destruction of the free market, competition, and innovation may seem appealing to some now, but the likely outcome of poor employment, negative real wage…
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Clinicians and Probabilistic Reasoning, with Dan Morgan
Our guest is Dan Morgan, MD, MS, a physician and epidemiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the…
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Stephan Livera Interviews Bob Murphy on the Economics of Bitcoin
Stephan Livera hosts a popular podcast on Bitcoin and Austrian economics. He recently had Bob on to discuss, appropriately enough, the economics of Bitcoin…
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The Enemy Is Always the State
One day, the Institute publishes an article criticizing Republicans. The Left cheers, but the Rights denounces us. The next day we criticize Democrats and the…
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George Floyd and Generalized Justice
Justice is specific, not general. It is individual, not cosmic. Original Article: "George Floyd and Generalized Justice" This Audio Mises Wire is generously…
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Polarization in Washington Is Forcing Politicians to Decentralize
From gun control to abortion, gridlock and polarization in Washington forces policymakers to look to state and local governments as the centers of political…