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The Middle Ages, "Enlightenment," and Propaganda
Names for historical periods like "Renaissance" and "Enlightenment" did not descend to us out of the heavens. Historians and propagandists of centuries past…
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Bond Market Sell Off: Welcome to the “Titanic Effect”
Because government monetary authorities have been interfering with interest rates for decades, investors have no more confidence in the bond markets, as they…
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The Fed Holds the Interest Rate Steady, and Warsh Buys Time with New "Task Force" Scheme
Once we look beyond a small shift in rhetoric and emphasis, there is, so far, no reason to believe that the Fed is headed toward anything other than business…
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Real Wages Fell for the Second Month as Price Inflation Surged
Sure, the earnings average was up year over year, but prices increased more than earnings did. In fact, price inflation hit a 38-month high in May. Original…
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The Musk Trillionaire Panic Is a Distraction
Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire has triggered a familiar round of progressive outrage. But the imprecise focus on wealth distribution…
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Why Justice Mattered to Rothbard
Economists like Harold Demsetz and Ronald Coase based their property rights views on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard based his on justice. Original article…
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Raising Interest Rates Does Not Counter Inflation
When inflation surges, the first thing on the government's agenda is for the Federal Reserve to try to force up interest rates. However, as Frank Shostak…
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The Fear of the Signal: Why the State Urgently Wants to Bind Prediction Markets
Prediction markets, while obviously imperfect, still work well because people voluntarily put their money where their beliefs are. Naturally, the government…
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Sound Money, Artificial Intelligence, and the Pope
Unfortunately, the Pope does not understand the role that monetary inflation plays in fueling AI's excesses. If he did, he might lead a necessary anti-AI…
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April Money Supply Growth Hit a 49-Month High. And Prices Soared.
In spite of repeated claims from the Federal Reserve that monetary policy is at least moderately restrictive, there is no sign of any slowing in money-supply…
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Moloch in the Regulatory State
Regulatory systems are infamous for creating “traps” in seem to be impervious to reform. Regulators seek to “drain the swamp,” but, instead, find themselves up…
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The Fed's Real Job: Propping Up Dollar Reserve Currency Status
Bob sits down with economists Alexander Salter and Joshua Hendrickson to discuss their new paper arguing that the standard Austrian critique of the Fed while…
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Why Politicians Lie—and How Easy Money Keeps the Boom Alive
On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton opens with a review of John Mearsheimer’s Why Do Politicians Lie?, focusing on strategic deception in…
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The Abolitionist Movement in the Antebellum South
Before the Nat Turner Rebellion and the rise of militant abolitionism in the North, there were more anti-slavery societies in the South than in the northern…
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The Declaration of Independence versus Egalitarianism
Egalitarian interpreters of the Declaration not only empower the centralized state but promote a view of “equality” that shares a common ethical error with…
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The NDAA's Attempt to Election-proof US-Israel Relations
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at the debate over the latest National Defense Authorization Act.
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AI, Creative Destruction, and the Politicization of Economic Change
Not surprisingly, the present government is rapidly politicizing artificial intelligence. We don’t have to look far for disastrous results. Original article…
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Potential Lockdowns, Polarization, And What Should be Done
The covid lockdowns were useless for public health, but they vastly strengthened government’s stranglehold over our lives. We cannot allow this to happen…
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How American Progressives Influenced Hitler
Despite attempts to whitewash its past, progressivism was a poisonous ideology from the beginning. One of its worst legacies is eugenics, which not only…
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Medieval Europeans Paved the Way for Freedom in the West
Contrary to the myth that kings routinely ruled over cowed subordinates by "divine right" in the Middle Ages, civil governments of the period faced countless…
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A Scholarly Takedown of MMT: Emmanuel Maggiori on the Theory's Fatal Flaws
Bob sits down with economist Emmanuel Maggiori to discuss his new book If You Can Just Print Money, Why Do I Pay Taxes?, a carefully researched, point-by-point…
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Anarcho-Tyranny is Killing College Sports
The current free-for-all in Division I NCAA sports is not the product of a free market, but rather is chaos being imposed by the courts and government…
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We’re Freaking Doomed without Freedom from State Rule
As AI continues to grow, we are told to fear private transactions and to depend on the state for safety and security. The reality is that we need to fear the…
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Taxpayers vs. Tax-Consumers: Rothbard’s Real Theory of Taxes and Spending
Mark Thornton replays his Rothbard University lecture on government spending and taxation, using Rothbard’s framework of binary intervention to overturn the…
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Charles Lee: The Alternative “George Washington” You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
This key decision of the Continental Congress matters because the way a war is fought affects the outcomes; the choice to fight like a state means either…
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The Federal Reserve is Why the People are Unhappy
According to the University of Michigan’s latest Index of Consumer Sentiment, a record number of Americans have negative views of the economy. This is yet more…
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The Subjective Nature of Time: From Bergson to Mises
Time is a unique resource in economics because we cannot create more of it and are subject to its limitations. Ludwig von Mises and the Austrians understand…
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The Great Disconnect: When Wealth and Productive Ability Diverge
Thanks to the Fed’s creation of asset bubbles, the US economy is producing many billionaires. However, the savvy entrepreneur is becoming increasingly scarce…
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Economic Calculation and a Southern California Beach Girl
Can a communist system flourish under a liberal government? Bernie Sanders says yes, but Melanie Armstrong, author of Chicken in a Strange Way, gives a…
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Warsh’s Concerning Interest in Redefining “Inflation”
Although it's true that many government-driven price hikes in recent years aren’t “inflation” in the strict sense, the pain they cause is just as real. Warsh’s…
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Trump’s Iran Predicament Is His Own Fault
Trump is trapped in a genuinely difficult situation as he tries to reach a deal with Iran. But it is a crisis of his own making. Also, the establishment…
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Praxeology as an Antidote to Hyperreality
Government economic policies reflect abstract ideas of what agents wish reality were like. Praxeology is not beholden to abstract economic fantasies. Original…
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Remembering the Mogambo Guru
The financial analyst Richard Daughty, whose pen name was Mogambo Guru, passed away four years ago, but while he was alive, he produced spot-on criticisms of…
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Crazy Wealth Tax Proposals in California and New York City
As socialists gain power in American cities and states, they look to destroy the creation of wealth and to tax the wealth-creators into oblivion. We know how…
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Beware the Neo-Primes
The latest rage among defense contractors is the rise of the high-tech “neo-primes,” firms which supposedly will apply “smart” militarization. History and…
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Justice Clarence Thomas, Harry Jaffa, and the Declaration of Independence
Did the Declaration of Independence carry a hidden message of abolition of slavery? Justice Clarence Thomas and historian Harry Jaffa believe that, but legal…
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The Sedation of Appalachia
The Appalachian region, while always relatively poor, had strong families and institutions that held things together. In the aftermath of the expansion of the…
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What Adam Smith Left Out of the Pin Factory
Mark Thornton shares his recent Rothbard University lecture on the division of labor, the concept Adam Smith made famous as chapter one of The Wealth of…
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Rothbard Explains the Anatomy of the State
In this discussion of Rothbard's seminal essay on the nature of the state, "The Anatomy of the State," Ryan McMaken takes a look at the state as a unique…
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The Defeat of Thomas Massie: Where to Go from Here?
The recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond? Original article…
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“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism
Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later…
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Mises and the Role of the Economist in Public Policy
In contemplating the life and career of Ludwig von Mises, one is struck by the nobility and grandeur, the high courage, of his lonely and lifelong struggle on…
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There Is No Reprieve in the Fed’s War on Savings
The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings…
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The Heart of a Fighter
What inspires us about the life of Mises, writes Lew Rockwell, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil. Original article…
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Justice Clarence Thomas Is Right about Progressivism
In attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct…
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Who Owns the Airwaves and the Sea?
For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others…
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America's Old Republic Disappeared a Long Time Ago
Ryan McMaken points out that the American "great experiment" failed many decades ago. In fact, the current republic we call "the United States" is clearly a…
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The Two Economies
As I see it now, there are really two economies—two distinct systems of producing and exchanging wealth. Or rather, two systems that purport to do these…
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The Public Goods Circular Argument
Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state…
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When Our Word is No Longer Good
The White House leaks that a deal is almost done. Markets surge. Insiders profit. The deal collapses. Repeat. Now the markets barely move. Nobody believes it…
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Democracy's Road to Tyranny
The popular pastime of modern democracies of punishing the diligent and thrifty, while rewarding the lazy, improvident, and unthrifty, is cultivated via the…
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The Big Apple’s Woes Are Not Just the Result of One Election
Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for many years, and Mamdani promises to…
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Murray Rothbard on War and "Isolationism"
Remembering Murray Rothbard on our imperialistic wars: "The true principle of isolationism is that the government should be isolated and people who trade…
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Price Inflation Is Getting Worse
Even the federal government's official data shows that price growth is well above the Federal Reserve's two-percent target. In fact, price inflation is now at…
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War, Easy Money, and the Working-Class Squeeze
Mark Thornton replays his wide-ranging Kitco News interview with Jeremy Szafron, connecting today’s “two economies” to Ludwig von Mises’s Austrian business…
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The US Constitution Is Now a Suicide Pact
Historically, many sovereign states have granted separatist cultural and ideological groups political autonomy as a means of avoiding full secession. The US…
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How Future Supply Moves Today's Prices
This week, Bob walks through three thought experiments to show how expectations of future supply changes ripple into present prices and production decisions in…
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Kitco Interview - Warsh Nomination Was the Biggest ‘Hit Job’ on Precious Metals
The American consumer is flashing historic warning signs, yet Wall Street is celebrating record corporate earnings. How are both true at the same time? Dr…
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The Economic Problem Behind Zohran Mamdani’s Government Grocery Plan
Zohran Mamdani’s proposal reflects a growing belief that economic problems can be solved through public ownership and political management. But a grocery store…
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The Great Reversal: How Social Contract Theory Became State Apologetics
Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state. Original article…