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What the Trade Balance Means for a Currency's Purchasing Power
Since the trade balance has nothing to do as such with either the supply of money or the demand for money, we can conclude that trade balances do not determine…
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What’s the Price of Gold? It Depends.
Spot? COMEX? Retail? How the price of gold varies by market. And why. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael…
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The Evidence Keeps Piling up: Lockdowns Don’t Work
Extraordinary measures require extraordinary evidence. Have the advocates for lockdowns made their case? The data suggests they have not. This Audio Mises Wire…
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The Fed's Brilliant Plan? More Inflation and Higher Prices
The question is not if the current system will end. The question is how it will end. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon…
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It’s Not "Just Property": How Looting Destroys Lives and Low-Income Neighborhoods
Advocates for looting are now claiming that looting doesn't really hurt anybody but evil corporations. In truth, looting is a disaster for many families…
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The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn't Do
Thomas Sowell concluded that, “A vastly expanded welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and generations…
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Jeff Deist on North Korea vs Antifa
Jeff Deist returns to the show. Are there any differences between North Korea and Antifa? David asks. Deist says that, for the left, democracy is a means to an…
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John Mandrola: Why Doctoring and Politics Shouldn’t Mix
Dr. John Mandrola returns to the show to discuss why doctoring and politics shouldn’t mix and how he got into hot water on Twitter for holding that…
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Man, Economy, and State: The Finale
We have reached the end of Murray Rothbard's definitive treatise Man, Economy, and State! Dr. Patrick Newman joins the show to wrap up the final…
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Protectionism and "Weak Dollar" Trade Policy
Those who advocate for a "weak dollar" to encourage trade with American firms show how little confidence there is in American industry. Meanwhile, cheapening…
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Radio Rothbard with Comic Dave Smith
This show features a personal and revealing interview of Comic Dave Smith by Jeff Deist. It shows a side of Dave you haven't seen before—so don't miss it. And…
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Bob Murphy Fields Questions on Austrian Economics and Libertarianism
For the LP Mises Caucus, Bob received a slew of questions to be answered in a half hour. The topics range from business cycle to free trade to a "voluntary"…
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The Feds Want to Snoop on Your Encrypted Data. It's "for the Children."
Although governments continue to insist "it's for the children," we should never go back to the dark ages of privacy before easy-to-use encryption. Nor should…
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Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History
The best way to think about tradition is to view it like capital accumulation. Knowledge is accumulated through countless centuries of trial and error. The…
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Eric July on Making Music, Debating Socialists, and Reading Comics
Eric July is the front man for the street-hop/metalcore group Backwordz. He discusses his personal odyssey in navigating the leftist metal scene. Bob then asks…
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Adam Mortara on Litigating Affirmative Action
Our guest is Adam Mortara, lead trial counsel in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University. We discuss the legal aspects of affirmative…
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Mises on Syndicalism
Syndicalism is a method of attack by organized labor for the attainment of certain political ends. It requires widespread acts of destruction on "capitalist"…
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No, We Don't Need a Government Post Office
Leonard Read has explained how so many Americans arrived at the clearly false notion that a government post office is necessary. This Audio Mises Wire is…
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The Social and Economic Side Effects of Negative Interest Rates
Negative interest rates lead to zombie firms, rampant consumerism, and growing obstacles to entrepreneurship. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by…
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How Unscientific Covid Policies Are Harming Birthing Mothers and Their Newborns
American healthcare practitioners already do a relatively poor job of caring for birthing mothers. Haphazard and harmful covid prevention policies show an…
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How the CARES Act Is Still Kicking the Can
Despite double-digit unemployment rates, banks are keeping loan-loss provisions low, no doubt assuming Uncle Sam will keep everyone’s boat afloat. But all good…
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Jeff Deist on CDC Takeover of Rent, Schools
Jeff Deist calls in to comment on the CDC sneaking in under COVID regulations to become America’s new landlord. What are the implications of this takeover?…
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Kenosha Kyle, the McCloskeys, and Standing Against Barbarism
The attempt to conflate the defense of property with tribal street violence reflects the anticapitalist bias of the modern zeitgeist. This Audio Mises Wire is…
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Radio Rothbard Live in Orlando!
Our first show was recorded with a raucous live audience at our recent event in Orlando, with Jeff Deist hosting and Lena Wang, Tho Bishop, and Patrick Newman…
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Robert Yeh on Harnessing Real World Evidence
Our guest is Robert Yeh, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology at the…
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The CDC Is America's New Landlord
This is astonishing, even by 2020 standards. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, operating under the US Department of Health and Human Services…
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Why Americans Are Looking for a Safe Haven from the Dollar
As confidence in the dollar falls, Americans put more of their money in gold, silver, and cryptocurrencies. State governments can help this process along by…
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Explaining John Nash’s Dissertation and Why Russell Crowe Got It Backwards
In the Ron Howard movie "A Beautiful Mind," Russell Crowe plays John Nash, a major figure in game theory. Although it was a good movie, it totally misconstrues…
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How Government Healthcare Has Reduced Access to Hospital Beds
If we want to understand the numbers behind the need to "flatten the curve," we must look at how government programs like Medicare have reduced hospital…
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It's Time for a Geopolitical Reset
America's unipolar moment is over, and it's time to exercise restraint rather than indulge in endless fantasies about regime change and American-led "global…
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Pompeo’s Iran Failures Make War More Likely
The US foreign policy establishment has for decades been dominated by neoconservative interventionists and falsely named “humanitarian” interventionists. This…
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Why Homeowners Hate Real Estate Developers
Homeowners believe their property rights extend far beyond their property lines. They want to dictate who lives near them, how much money their neighbors make…
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Mexico’s Unexpected Fiscal Sanity
President López Obrador of Mexico has surprisingly been a voice of fiscal sanity, refusing to embrace the sorts of enormous stimulus packages that are now so…
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The Global Jobless Recovery
So far, the United States is leading Europe in employment improvement, but the full recovery is extremely far away. This Audio Mises Wire is generously…
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America 2021: The Threat of Progressivism
Last time we met in Orlando, Bob Murphy mentioned how much worse our political and social divide would be if the economy crashed like 2008. Now we face this…
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Coming Apart, Coming Together
Last time we met in Orlando, Bob Murphy mentioned how much worse our political and social divide would be if the economy crashed like 2008. Now we face this…
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How Bailouts and Stimulus Pave the Way for a Lot More Spending on Everything
If we can spend a few trillion overnight to bail out investors and send out 150 million stimulus checks, why not also launch a universal basic income and a…
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Patrick Newman on Rothbard’s Power & Market
Power and Market was never meant to be an addendum to Man, Economy, and State, but a vital part of the book’s unbridled economic analysis of a truly free…
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Was Mises a Fascist? Obviously Not.
Mises explicitly explained that fascism (which he called by its Italian name, “stato corporativo”) is nothing but an outgrowth of socialism and is incompatible…
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Dan Sanchez on How to Make Superman Movies Great Again
DC execs think Superman is "too perfect" to resonate with modern audiences, but Dan Sanchez profoundly disagrees. He and Bob discuss this issue and other…
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Jeff Deist on Deflation, Liberalism
Jeff Deist calls in to talk about deflation, Jeff Booth’s book The Price of Tomorrow, the role of the federal reserve in creating consumerism, liberalism as…
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Amy Wax on Wokeness in Medicine
Our guest is Amy Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before attending law school she obtained her undergraduate…
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The Covid Crisis Has Pushed Latin American Regimes back toward Authoritarianism
Today, during a deep economic crisis, citizens of many Latin American countries will suffer the asphyxiation of a violent state that has used the emergency to…
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The Price of Tomorrow with Jeff Booth
By day Jeff Booth is an entrepreneur and builder of companies, but now he's written one of the most compelling and important books of 2020. The Price of…
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Growth and Income Inequality in Africa
There are two kinds of inequality. One develops as societies innovate and become more productive. The other kind results from government corruption and…
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How Government Roads Expand Police Power in America
The case for the privatization of roads has much to recommend it if only in terms of how it would affect the power of the police to detain us, search us, and…
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Jefferson on the Family and Liberty
One of the standard criticisms of the free market point of view is that it treats individuals as isolated atoms who view other people only as means to the…
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Gold Prices Show There's a "Big Short" Going on in Official Currencies
A rising price of gold and silver in US dollars, euros, Chinese renminbi, Japanese yen, etc. means this: the higher the price of this precious metal, the lower…
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The Theory and Brief History of the US Gold Standard
Bob explains some of the highlights of his newly released chapter for the Mises Institute book on “Understanding Money Mechanics.” He explains the operation of…
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The War on Landlords Has Begun
It does not bode well for our society when proposals to simply expropriate property are becoming more and more prevalent and discussed with more seriousness…
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Gabriela Gomes: Why Herd Immunity May Be at Hand
Our guest is Gabriela Gomes, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde. She specializes in population dynamics and the modeling of herd…
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Jeff Deist on the DNC and Bannon’s Arrest
Jeff Deist joins David Gornoski to critique the DNC and their pro-war and divisive policies. Deist also provides some humorous commentary on the DNC’s…
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Man, Economy, and State: Money & Its Purchasing Power with Robert Murphy
Economist Robert Murphy joins the show to cover Rothbard's excellent treatment of money in Chapter 11 of Man, Economy, and State. Dr. Murphy and Jeff cover why…
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Pennsylvania Is Playing Politics with Drug Rationing
Pennsylvania is telling hospitals to distribute covid-19 drugs based on race. Those from "disadvantaged communities" get the drugs first. This Audio Mises Wire…
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Are Negative Rates a Natural Historical Development?
Central bankers are saying two things at once. First, they say that negative interest rates are a natural historical development. But then they say negative…
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Calculating GDP Correctly
There are many reasons we should be skeptical of the GDP statistic. But it is nonetheless important to understand how it is calculated. This Audio Mises Wire…
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Diversity in Cardiology, with Martha Gulati
A recent article authored by Dr. Norman Wang on the history and current state of affirmative action programs in medical schools and cardiology departments has…
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George Reisman on Studying With Mises, Meeting Ayn Rand, and His Contributions to Economic Theory
George Reisman is economics professor emeritus at Pepperdine University. He is one of the few people to get his PhD under Mises. After sharing anecdotes about…
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How Healthcare Intermediaries Profit
Marion Mass is a pediatrician in the Philadelphia area where she has practiced in hospital, Emergency Room, delivery room, outpatient, and urgent care…
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Why Fed Bugs Really, Really Hate Gold
Fed bugs sound like real estate agents in reverse: there is never a good time to buy gold. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon…