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Politics Is about Perception Not Facts
David Gornoski is joined by Jeff Deist who talks about Biden's slandering of half of America's population and the calls to "deprogram" Trump voters. Are the…
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What Biden/Harris Will Do
Will Biden/Harris be a transformative administration? Original Article: "What Biden/Harris Will Do" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by…
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Why They Hate Trump So Deeply
In the words of Ronald Reagan, here we go again. Original Article: "Why They Hate Trump So Deeply" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher…
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Snowden and Assange: There Is Still Time for Trump to Do the Right Thing
Will Trump pardon these two genuine heroes? He might yet surprise me, but I doubt it because we can see from the people he has already pardoned that his values…
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Why the Covid Shutdowns of Public Schools Are Driving So Many to Homeschooling
Students have been denied in-person schooling. At the same time, millions of women—many of whom have children—have been thrown out of work. Suddenly…
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Beware the Troop-Withdrawal Bait and Switch
Foreign policy apparatchiks are adept at gaslighting the public into believing they’re bringing troops back home when in reality they’re either shifting troops…
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Inflation Breeds Even More Inflation
Mises's firm anti-inflation view—and his recommendation for a return to sound money (that is, free market money)—rested on his awareness of the disastrous…
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Understanding Inequality Requires Much More Than Calling Everything Racist
To offer a semblance of solidarity with the working class, wealthy leftists have substituted identity politics for class conflict, and attempted to recast…
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When It Comes to National Defense, Bigger Isn't Always Better
Many observers of international affairs assume that larger, more populous states are necessarily more powerful. But the reality is wealth and economic…
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A World without Political Leaders?
Manent insists that if political leaders don’t lead society, we will have a society that isn’t led by political leaders. So what? Original Article: "A World…
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David Andolfatto Defends the Fed
Ron Paul used the fall in purchasing power since the founding of the Fed to argue that the central bank had hurt regular Americans. Fed economist David…
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The Upside of Lockdowns: More Saving
Rothbard: "At the outset of every step forward on the road to a more plentiful existence is saving….Without saving and capital accumulation there could not be…
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What Does "Freedom" Mean? There Are Many Different Answers.
"These days most people tend to equate freedom with the possession of inalienable individual rights, rights that demarcate a private sphere no government may…
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Covid-19 and the Socialist Calculation Problem
Just as central planners cannot know how individuals will value a product or service, so too are central planners unable to calculate or plan for the endless…
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Politics Won't Fix the American Decline
While it is popular and accurate to blame our societal elites for being inept, the truth is that these leaders, both political and cultural, are reflections of…
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There Is Money and Then There Are Money Substitutes
The task at hand is the study of the problems of the determination of prices and interest rates. This task requires a sharp distinction between…
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Guido Hülsmann on The Ethics of Money Production
Guido Hülsmann's The Ethics of Money Production is a masterclass both on the fundamentals of money and the disastrous moral consequences of monetary "policy."…
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Low Rates and Limited Liability Mean Hot Markets
The taxpayer is backstopping more credit risk than ever. The Post reported that nearly 30 percent of the loans Fannie Mae guaranteed were to borrowers whose…
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Surviving Tech Purges: What We're Doing at the Mises Institute
We will never water down our message to satisfy censors or maintain a particular platform; instead we will work around them. Original Article: "Surviving Tech…
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The Capitol Riots and the Coming "Counterrevolution"
Democrats and anti-Trump GOP leaders are calling the Capitol riot a "coup" and "treason." This is in part because if Washington politicians can portray the…
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Why Mainstream Economic Forecasts Are So Often Wrong
Thanks to politics, confirmation bias, and bad monetary economics, central banks have a lousy record when it comes to economic forecasts. Original Article…
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California Is Worse Than You Think
If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to…
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Fiscal Stimulus vs. Economic Growth
We're told more government spending will get the economy back on track. But increasing government spending weaken the process of wealth creation. Original…
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The Truth about January 6, and Where We Should Go from Here
What can be done now? President Trump should not urge us all to “come together.” Instead, he should support secession. Original Article: "The Truth about…
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Corporatism: Influential Farmers in India Oppose Profreedom Agricultural Reforms
The silent majority is the one that benefits from recent agricultural reforms, but mounting pressure from the vocal minority has prompted the government to…
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The "War On Terror" Comes Home
It is partly an attempt to erase the Trump movement from the pages of history, but it is also an attempt to silence criticism of the emerging political…
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The Capitol Riot Wasn’t a Coup. It Wasn't Even Close.
Coups are nearly always acts committed by elites against the sitting executive power using the tools of the elites. It's clear the elites want Trump gone, and…
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A Just Society Is a Society Based on Political Liberty
Acton: “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…not for the sake of a good public administration…but for the…
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Larry Summers Reminds Us That Federal "Stimulus" Mostly Exists to Help Wall Street
For people who remain mystified as to how populists like Donald Trump get elected, they need not look much further than this. Original Article: "Larry Summers…
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Why the Corporate Paradox of Thrift Isn't Really a Problem
Corporate cost cutting sets the stage for future gains in profitability and productivity, and there is no resulting "paradox of thrift" requiring easy money…
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The Cult of Smart
The government spends vast amounts of money on educational programs that aim to give “equal opportunity” to those deemed disadvantaged, but there is little or…
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The Result of "Too Much Money": Asset Price Inflation and Inequality
While it took the Federal Reserve almost six years to create 3.5 trillion in new US dollar liquidity after 2008, this time around, it took only ten months to…
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No, We Don't Need a New New Deal
There are few sacred cows in American politics more revered than the New Deal. Yet the New Deal did nothing to end the Depression and it still negatively…
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The Betrayal of the Canadian Liberals
The Canadian Liberal Party began as a party of classical liberalism, radically supportive of freedom and free markets. But those days are long over. Original…
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Wikipedia, Markets, and Collaboration
On January 15, Wikipedia turns 20. Its anniversary is a good time to celebrate the success of a service that has become so useful to so many. Original Article…
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California Now Wants to Tax People Who Live in Other States, Too
In case you doubted that California's politicians are firmly committed to ever-higher levels of taxation, California is now trying to retroactively impose…
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Double Standards, Reparations, and War Crimes
The Nuremberg prosecutors wanted to indict the Nazis on trial for crimes, but at the same time they wanted to preserve the dogma that the modern European…
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Medical Errors and the Cult of Expertise in the Age of Covid
Many healthcare professionals have happily embraced the same attitude as cops: "We're experts, don't you dare question us." But the 100,000 yearly…
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How Consumer Sovereignty and Entrepreneurship Work Together
Consumers are indeed sovereign, but the reason consumers can exercise their sovereignty is that entrepreneurs have already borne the uncertainty of production…
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The Problems with Marx's Dialectic
The Marxist dialectic was purported to explain every development in Soviet society. But so much wishful thinking was required that eventually it all just…
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Why Trump Voters Don't Trust the People Who Count the Votes
If the FBI and the Pentagon have already demonstrated their officials are willing to break and bend rules to obstruct Trump, why believe the administrative…
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2021: Welcome to Post-persuasion America
Mobilization and separation, not persuasion, is the way forward. Original Article: "2021: Welcome to Post-persuasion America" This Audio Mises Wire is…
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If Congress Were Genuinely Interested in Democracy, They Would Welcome an Election Commission
Once upon a time, those in power were smart enough to recognize the importance of popular support. Now the arrogant behavior of those in power is sowing the…
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MAGA Mobs the US Capitol: What Comes Next?
Jeff Deist, Ryan McMaken, and Tho Bishop discuss Wednesday's takeover of the US capitol building. What are the potential long term effects, and just how much…
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Why Trumpism Might Bring a New Era for Political Parties
The United States has gone through at least six "party systems." Populism, war, or economic crises usually trigger a change from one system to another. Ryan…
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Why the 2020s Won't Be like the Roaring 20s
The 1920s featured political détente, debt liquidations by prior consumer price inflation, an introductory stalling of monetary inflation, a German economic…
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Debating Socialism: The Seligman-Nearing Debate at 100
In January 1921, thirty-five hundred people packed the Lexington Theater in midtown Manhattan to hear a debate of socialism. Ludwig von Mises in Vienna later…
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Central Bank Digital Currency: A Primer
Let us begin with what CBDCs definitely are not: they are not a new kind of cryptocurrency akin to bitcoin. Original Article: "Central Bank Digital Currency: A…
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The Fed Won't Save Us from the Growing Jobs Recession
No matter how bleak the economy may be, the Keynesians are likely to say, “It would have been worse without us.” Original Article: "The Fed Won't Save Us from…
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The Angel Gabriel and Monetary Inflation
Six hundred dollars, two thousand, or how about one million per person? How much money should a government give its people to get the wheels of commerce…
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Yes, Privatization Makes Us Better Off
The Left has often claimed that privatization is a neoliberal scam. But actual experience suggests privatization schemes have improved access to goods and…
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2021's Deficit Spending Is Already Out of Control. Here's Why That's a Problem.
Deficits still matter, largely because they require monetary policies that lead to bubbles, inequality, and the slow Japanization of the US economy. Original…
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2021: Predictions for the New Year
There's no reason to assume 2021 will bring a reversal of 2020's trends. Many of the fights that began in 2020 are likely to intensify in the new year. Be sure…
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The Case for Reading Books with Tom Woods
Tom Woods joins the show for a special year-end show to make the case for becoming a serious reader in 2021! Read Dr. David Gordon's 2020 book reviews at…
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The Great Reset, Part II: Corporate Socialism
The aims of the WEF are not to plan every aspect of production and thus to direct all individual activity. Rather, the goal is to limit the possibilities for…
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California Voters Defeated Affirmative Action and the Left Was Very Surprised
Ideally, political elites would like nothing more than state-sponsored ethnic conflict. Having multiple groups pitted against each other in petty political…
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Today's Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty
Murray Rothbard wrote, “The rate of interest is the price of ‘time.’” It’s safe to say the world’s central banks have manipulated and mispriced what time is…
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The Problem with Mandatory "Socially Responsible Investing"
There are ominous signs on the horizon that governments want to move toward mandating "socially responsible investing" for pensions and fund managers. This is…
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Why It's Important to Make the Moral Case for Capitalism
Yes, capitalism is more efficient than socialism, but to build a compelling argument for free market capitalism, defenders of liberty must also articulate that…
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Employment Discrimination at Starbucks Is a Matter for Private Contracts
The attorneys for Betsy Fresse have filed a lawsuit claiming that Starbucks fired her for not wearing a “Pride” shirt while working at her New Jersey store…