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Why GDP Metrics Won't Tell Us Much about the Post-COVID Recovery
GDP can be increased through both government spending and printing new money. So, naturally, once lockdowns end we'll see a big rebound in GDP. But that…
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Why It's Rational to Fear Cops
Not all (or even most) police are needlessly violent. But it is rational to conclude, upon seeing a person in a police uniform, that this person can—if he…
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Free the Liquor Stores!
Free the liquor stores to sell what products they want, what days of the week they want, what hours they want, and to whom they want. Narrated by Daniel…
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The Moral Authority of the Lockdown Fetishists Is Gone. Thank the Protestors and Rioters.
The next time lockdown fetishists demand more coerced social distancing, many will say: "Social distancing didn't matter to these experts very much back during…
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Three Ways Lockdowns Paved the Way for These Riots
COVID lockdowns (1) threw millions out of work, (2) increased police harassment of peaceful people, (3) cut people off from key institutions that reduce social…
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A Functional Neurosurgeon Discusses Elon Musk’s Neuralink
Our guest is Neurosurgeon Chengyuan Wu. Dr. Wu specializes in functional neurosurgery, a field that focuses on using brain surgery to restore function to…
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Alex Salter on the Empty Slogan of "State Capacity" and the Famous Somalia Challenge
Alex Salter is an economist with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. Bob asks him about his recent article (with Vincent Geloso) criticizing…
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Are We on the Cusp of a New Progressive Era?
Recorded at Avondale Brewing Company in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 6, 2020. Special thanks to Mark Walker for sponsoring this event.
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New York: The Corona Crisis Shows the Benefits of Localism Yet Again
COVID-19 is not really a "national" issue. It has affected different areas in very different ways. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher…
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War for Hong Kong?
The United States has been trying to provoke China into a conflict for years. But Americans benefit far more from peace with China. We shouldn't fall for the…
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Defining "Inflation" Correctly
The real problem with inflation, properly understood is that it is essentially a wealth transfer away from the most productive parts of the economy. This…
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Martial Law and Lockdowns: An Online Seminar with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Just as America begins to reopen from the Coronavirus lockdowns, protests break out across the country over the killing of George Floyd by police in…
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Michael Flynn, Lori Loughlin, and the Permanent Culture of Prosecutorial Abuse
It’s important to call the government and media on this unholy alliance, whether you view their targets as sympathetic or not. If we stay silent when they come…
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Minneapolis Riots Are a Reminder That Police Don't Protect You or Your Property
Police are not legally obligated to provide protection from criminals. Nor are they motivated to go after hardened criminals or investigate violent crime. Self…
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Notes on Trump's Executive Order for Tech Companies
Executive orders are inherently suspect and generally bad, not simply because of (at this point laughable) constitutional concerns, but because they establish…
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There's No End in Sight to the Zombie Economy
Put simply, if it were not for accommodative monetary policy, these firms would have otherwise shut down by now. Once again, the Fed is refusing to allow the…
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Why Abusive Cops So Often Keep Their Jobs
When you hear a cop has been fired from his job for some heinous act, be sure to check back a few months later. He may have been rehired thanks to the fact…
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Two Analogies for the Economy That the Media Keeps Getting Wrong
Ultimately, we need not rely on the government (i.e., the “king’s men” putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again). People acting freely in a marketplace could…
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An L-Shaped Recovery Is Not an Anomaly, It Is the Norm.
The massive bailout of indebted sectors that already had overcapacity and were in process of obsolescence may also drive the largest wave of malinvestment in…
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Pandemic Wagering: Tesla or Table Tennis?
One clue as to why the stock market has rebounded while daily economic news grows worse could be the flood of new punters betting on stocks, from high-flying…
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The Cost of Lockdowns in Human Health and Human Lives Is Becoming Increasingly Clear
Of course, anyone who deals in interacting with the real world (i.e., not lifelong bureaucrats like Fauci, who needs not exhibit any actual competence to…
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The German Court's Unexpected Blow to the ECB
A high German court recently ruled that the European Central Bank has overstepped the bounds of its power. The angry response from high-ranking European…
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Coronavirus Propaganda Mimics War Propaganda
Propaganda kills, but it also works. Many of the same tactics employed to destroy opposition to the Iraq War are being used today against opponents of…
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In the Lockdown Fight for Local Control, Colorado Counties Begin to Ignore State Edicts
Some county governments in Colorado have made it clear that they don't intend to adhere to the governor's ongoing edicts requiring business closures and…
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A Florida Physician Runs for Congress
What does it mean to promote a politically conservative vision for health care? Our guest is Dr. Leo Valentin, a radiologist running as a Republican candidate…
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Politicians' COVID Mania Ravages Maryland
James Bovard reports form Maryland, where the COVID-19 lockdowns have decimated employment and the rules only apply to powerless ordinary people. Cops and…
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The Hydroxychloroquine Controversy Is a Reminder That Prescription Laws Are a Government Racket
In a free country, doctors would be free to prescribe whatever drugs they wish to anyone for any reason. In fact, individuals should be free to buy drugs…
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What the Failed 55-MPH Speed Limit Law Tells Us about COVID Lockdowns
Americans were once harangued by government "experts" about the need to slow down on highways in order to save lives. Few listened. Today, laws demanding…
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Why Congressional "Oversight" of the Bureaucracy Is No Such Thing
Neither voters nor politicians watch the bureaucracy very carefully, so they respond as one might expect—advancing their own and their favorites' interests, at…
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Michael Boldin on Hanging Out with 2 Live Crew and Sticking it to the NSA
Libertarians know Michael Boldin as the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center, but he started out as a leftist promoting clubs in LA and other major cities. In…
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The CDC Slashed the COVID-19 Fatality Rate to a Fraction of Earlier Estimate Used to Justify Lockdowns
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The prolockdown crowd has been making extraordinary claims. Meanwhile, they have produced little evidence…
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The Folly of "Ask What You Can Do for Your Country"
Governments often demand that you "ask what you can do for your country," but those governments never guarantee us anything in return for our sacrifice…
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How Would a Socially Balanced Society Respond to a Pandemic?
The state currently enjoys a vastly unbalanced share of the power within a society, such an arrangement is not in any way preordained, and the assumption that…
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The Fed Is Doing "Whatever It Takes" to Prop Up the Economy. That's a Very Bad Thing.
There's now no difference between monetary policy and other government programs designed to prop up firms, industries, and other favored groups. The Fed is…
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The Chicago School versus the Austrian School
Although it's true that Austrians agree with Chicago economists on many policy issues, their approach to economic science is very different. This Audio Mises…
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To Prevent Problematic Inflation, We Need More Production. Which Means There's Trouble Ahead.
Price inflation is so difficult to predict, because there are so many moving parts: money supply, demand, money velocity, and supply of goods and services…
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Why Didn't the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It's the Lockdowns
The 1958 pandemic killed twice as many people as COVID-19 has so far. Yet, the economy in 2020 has collapsed far worse than either in 1958 or the far worse…
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Do Lockdowns Work? Mounting Evidence Says No
Most of the world's regimes enthusiastically destroyed their economies and consigned millions to destitution (and a rising tide of resulting health problems)…
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The Big Reason Mises Rejected Marx's Dialectical Materialism
The weird thing about dialectical materialism is that Marx seems to have cobbled it together from two philosophies that contradicted each other. This Audio…
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The Shutdown May Soon Collapse in Pennsylvania Thanks to Local Resistance
With such chaos, confusion, and incompetence playing out, it is little wonder that more and more Pennsylvanians are refusing to obey lockdown decrees. This…
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Why Official Inflation Measures Don't Work
In theory, it is possible to adjust inflation measures to account for the many constant changes in prices resulting from changing demand, quality, and…
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How Government Intervention Triggers Depressions
Thanks to past interventions, the economy is now rife with malinvestments and prices that don't reflect real demand. The solution is to allow deflation and…
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The Guys Behind the Babylon Bee Interview Bob on the Fed, Krugman, and Jesus
The editors of The Babylon Bee have a podcast, and they invited Bob on to discuss the economic situation. Then, they asked a series of fun questions, against…
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We’re All in This Together. But Not in the Way You Think.
Some claim "the rich" will be fine—or even better off—after the COVID panic destroys the economy for most of us. But there's a problem: the wealthy depend…
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Let's Hope Deflation Is Headed Our Way
Central banks have decided that one of their main missions is to prevent deflation. But this only ends up causing the malinvestments that lead to economic…
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What a Retracted JAMA Paper Tells Us about the Research Enterprise
Our guest is Eric Weinhandl, an epidemiologist whose investigation of a JAMA paper on dialysis patients lead to its retraction—and subsequent republication…
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Adam Smith and Benevolence
Buyers and sellers in the free market do indeed act from self-interest, but Adam Smith never argued that this excludes friendly feelings for those they do…
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Krugman: We Need More Unemployment—to Save Us from Unemployment
Paul Krugman is now claiming that reopening the economy and allowing people to go to work almost surely will cause a depression. This Audio Mises Wire is…
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The School Closures Are a Big Threat to the Power of Public Schools
For many parents, the ongoing closure of public schools will just reinforce growing suspicions that public schools just aren't worth it anymore. Maybe they…
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Hacksawing the Economy: How Lockdowns Are in the Tradition of Civil War Surgeons
Hacking off soldiers' limbs was a favorite technique of Civil War surgeons, largely because doctors wanted to avoid blame for later cases of gangrene. So…
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Thanks to Shutdowns, Many Will Learn That Public Schooling Isn't All That Essential After All
Panic over the COVID-19 virus has led to the closure of many schools and new forays into education outside the government school system. Many will find that…
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State Lockdowns Are Creating a Mental Health Disaster
With their bizarre and extreme lockdowns, governments are forcing very low-risk populations to endure social isolation and unemployment. The mental health…
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Why Media Coverage of COVID-19 Has Been So Bad
Media outlets, both left and right, are mostly narrative driven. Also, journalists have a tendency to lazily reprint whatever "experts" say. This makes media…
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Crisis or Opportunity? To Politicians, It's the Same Thing
The COVID-19 panic has provided a myriad of opportunities for politicians to exploit the fear and pain of ordinary people for personal profit. This Audio Mises…
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The COVID Crash: A Webinar with Daniel Lacalle
Jeff Deist and economist Daniel Lacalle present a special live seminar on the COVID-19 crisis and what it means for your economic future. Is the world headed…
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Viruses versus Lockdowns: It's Not about Tradeoffs
Presenting "saving lives" as a more or less equal alternative to commerce and community is a misguided view of what the lockdown debate is really all about…
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How Bad Is It?
Crashes are fast, like that first hill on a coaster. Recoveries are not, for the simple reason that production is more difficult than destruction. This Audio…
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How the COVID-19 Lockdowns Will Increase Resentment of the Elderly
How do the shutdowns increase ageism? Because millions have arguably been thrown out of work in the name of protecting the elderly. The resulting economic…
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Testing and Contact Tracing: The Challenges Ahead
Our guest is Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University Medical School as well as Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law and…
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Fevers, Flus, and Viruses: Adam Rodman on the Nosological Challenges of COVID-19
Our guest is Adam Rodman, host of the podcast Bedside Rounds, a great show on the history of medicine. With his deep knowledge of the vagaries of medical…