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    Every Year is 1939 to the War Hawks

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025


    According to the neo-conservative war hawks, every so-called enemy is the Next Hitler and every year is 1939. The failure to seek new conflicts abroad is equated to the failure of Great Britain and France to stand up to Hitler before World War II broke out.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/every-year-1939-war-hawks

    More Thoughts on the BRICS and Gold versus the US and the Dollar

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025


    The US and its Western allies may scoff at this challenge, but it only became possible due to high-handedness (to use the kindest word imaginable) and outright illegality of US actions.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/more-thoughts-brics-and-gold-versus-us-and-dollar

    You Can't Yell “Chicken Jockey” in a Crowded Theater (Except When You Can)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2025


    The hackneyed argument for government regulation of speech -- yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater -- has always been a red herring. As Murray Rothbard wrote, private property rights should be front-and-center when dealing with free speech issues.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-cant-yell-chicken-jockey-crowded-theater-except-when-you-can

    Tariffs Won't Spawn Good Trade Deals

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025


    The media is spinning President Trump‘s “trade deals” as a “victory” for the White House. Yet, when we break down these “deals” into their particulars, we find that American producers and consumers will be worse off than before.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/tariffs-wont-spawn-good-trade-deals

    The Ambiguous Nationalism-Patriotism in Brazilian Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025


    In both cases, the use of nationalism and patriotism by Brazilian governments reveals a recurring strategy: appealing to national pride to divert attention from self-inflicted crises.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/ambiguous-nationalism-patriotism-brazilian-politics

    The Oklahoma City Bombing: A Lesson in Government Lawlessness

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025


    After the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI rolled out the same "lone nut" narrative about who did it. However, much evidence exists to show that FBI informants and agents embedded with white supremacy groups may well have been involved.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/oklahoma-city-bombing-lesson-government-lawlessness

    Etatism, Protectionism, and the Demand for Lebensraum

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025


    Having warned of the rise of national socialism and having fled the German army's march into Austria, Ludwig von Mises was in an excellent position to analyze Nazi economic doctrine.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/etatism-protectionism-and-demand-lebensraum

    The Silent War for Latin America: How the Foro de São Paulo Subverted Liberty from Within

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025


    From seminary classrooms to Supreme Courts, a network redefined justice, democracy, and freedom in the name of social control. Many goals of the Foro de São Paulo, launched in 1990 by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Fidel Castro, sadly, are being realized.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/silent-war-latin-america-how-foro-de-sao-paulo-subverted-liberty-within

    The Trump-Putin Meeting: How We Got Here

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025


    When presidents Trump and Putin meet this Friday, the political and military landscape is much different than it was when war broke out more than three years ago and Putin was willing to talk about a real cease fire. Thanks to western dishonesty, Ukraine's future is bleak.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-putin-meeting-how-did-we-get-here

    Harry Truman: Founding Father of the National Security State

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025


    Following World War II, President Truman helped produce the modern national security state by creating the Central Intelligence Agency. Only later did Truman regret what he did, as the CIA turned into a monster that could never be tamed.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/harry-truman-founding-father-national-security-state

    You Created Jobs for Robots?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025


    Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/you-created-jobs-robots

    The Meaning of Coercion in Hayekian Philosophy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025


    How do we define liberty? Hayek saw it as the absence of most (but not all) coercion, but that depends upon how one defines “coercion.” Murray Rothbard believed that Hayek was too willing to accept forms of coercion that were anti-freedom.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/meaning-coercion-hayekian-philosophy

    Can Econometric Models Fulfill the Role of an Economic Laboratory?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025


    Mainstream economists claim that they can use econometric models to emulate human action and, thus, create an economic laboratory. These models, however, cannot tell us about cause-and-effect, which is vital to understanding praxeology and economic behavior.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/can-econometric-models-fulfill-role-economic-laboratory

    Jamaica's Beaches and Property Rights

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025


    Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/jamaicas-beaches-and-property-rights

    Will Jamaica Become a Republic?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025


    Long a constitutional monarchy with ties to Great Britain, many in Jamaica are looking to end the old relationship and become a republic. But is this movement simply a reaction to anti-colonialism, and what kind of constitution would the new republic create? So far, no answers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/will-jamaica-become-republic

    Equality under the Hayekian Rule of Law

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2025


    What do we mean by equality? F.A. Hayek believed that equality under law and the socialist belief of material equality were opposed to each other. Furthermore, he held liberty to be necessary for civilization itself to flourish.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/equality-under-hayekian-rule-law

    US Travel Restrictions for Cuba Violate the Freedoms of Americans and Cubans

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2025


    A relic of the Cold War, the US embargo and travel restrictions to Cuba violate American freedoms and they accomplish nothing to end Cuba's communist regime or win freedom for Cubans. Yet, this failed policy has persisted for nearly 65 years with no end in sight.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-travel-restrictions-cuba-violate-freedoms-americans-and-cubans

    Reintroducing the Levellers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025


    Before the American Revolution, there were the Levellers, who sought liberty during the English Civil War. While their influence on the American colonists would be indirect, nonetheless, many of their ideas reflected what came after American independence.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/reintroducing-levellers

    Inflation by Design: How Keynesian Dogma Undermines Capitalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025


    In most of the world, inflation is no longer an exception, it is the rule. Official inflation targets of 4 percent, 5 percent, or even 6 percent per year have become normalized.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/inflation-design-how-keynesian-dogma-undermines-capitalism

    We Should Not Apologize for Businesses Being Profitable

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025


    In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up For Business by Onkar Ghate and Dan Watkins. While praising the effort, he also shares some concerns.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/we-should-not-apologize-businesses-being-profitable

    The Last Day of Barter and Questions for the First Day of Chartalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025


    In examining the Austrian Regression Theorem of Money, Joshua Mawhorter takes on the Chartalist/MMT claim that government gives money its value. The Chartalist/MMT advocates lack a necessary cause-and-effect mechanism to prove their claims.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/last-day-barter-and-questions-first-day-chartalism

    The European Miracle: How Contractual Politics and Divided Power Gave Birth to Western Prosperity

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025


    How did Europe move from a collection of impoverished city states and kingdoms to a prosperous state of affairs? Europeans learned the value of contracts, private property, and the limited power of the state, and in turn, they flourished.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/european-miracle-how-contractual-politics-and-divided-power-gave-birth-western-prosperity

    Can the BRICS Nations Lead Us to a Better World?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025


    There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/can-brics-nations-lead-us-better-world

    Scholars and Schemers: How the Left Ruined Higher Education

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025


    One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call to bring about socialism in the West by eroding the institutional barriers against it.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholars-and-schemers-how-left-ruined-higher-education

    The Threats of AI Come from the State

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025


    Artificial Intelligence is advancing, but people often fear it for the wrong reasons. AI is not a threat in itself, but rather becomes a threat when the state uses it as one more tool to limit individual liberty and to engage in oppressive behavior.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/threats-ai-come-state

    America's War on Arab Christians

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025


    The recent attack by Israeli setters on the village of Taybeh in the West Bank has brought attention to the conflicts between Israel and the Christian population in Palestine. American Christians who uncritically support Israel should take a harder look at what is happening.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-war-arab-christians

    Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025


    Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/cold-war-20-heats

    Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025


    The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/harry-truman-and-atomic-bomb

    No Matter Who Is President, Don't Trust Government Data

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025


    Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-matter-who-president-dont-trust-government-data

    Anarcho-Capitalism: The Nine Most Important Objections

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025


    "Anarcho-Capitalism is good in theory, but it would never work in the real world." That is a common objection to A-C, but is it correct? What are the objections and how do we answer them. Stanisław Wójtowicz provides some answers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-capitalism-nine-most-important-objections

    From Bad to Worse, Irish Rent Control

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025


    Apparently, Ireland's government has not learned any lessons from rent control disasters elsewhere. Thus, the Irish will have to learn this hard lesson and face the consequences of their economic folly.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bad-worse-irish-rent-control

    Jeff Bezos's Yacht: Driver of Economic Activity

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025


    A yacht—like any good exchanged on the free market—represents countless value-maximizing exchanges and represents an industry that employs thousands of people to provide goods and services to others.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/jeff-bezoss-yacht-driver-economic-activity

    The Complexity of Historical Narratives

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025


    Understanding any era of history requires the ability to view complex things. However, people often employ simple narratives as their historical guides, which leads to wrong conclusions. The pre-war history of the American South is one that is much more complex than the narratives imply.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/complexity-historical-narratives

    The Fed Says It Is "Data-Driven." But the Data Isn't Any Good.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025


    What use is the Fed's supposed devotion to being "data-driven" when the data itself is unreliable and the Fed is basing its policies on data that is thoroughly wrong?Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fed-says-it-data-driven-data-isnt-any-good

    How Does Money Acquire its Value?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025


    Thanks for modern Keynesian economics, most people believe money gains its value from the government that issues it. Money's value, however, is historically tied to the value of the commodity from which money was derived.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-does-money-acquire-its-value

    How JFK and the CIA Gave NYC Zohran Mamdani (and Obama to the US)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025


    In an attempt to compete with the Soviet Union by bringing future elite political leaders from Africa to study in US universities, Sen. John Kennedy and the CIA inadvertently spread Marxism here and abroad. One product of this program was bringing Mamdani's Marxist father to the US.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-jfk-and-cia-gave-nyc-zohran-mamdani-and-obama-us

    A Thunderously Bad Deal: Oklahoma City's Crony Arena Tax

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025


    Oklahoma City will be building a new arena for the 2025 NBA Champions Thunder. Not surprisingly, the taxpayers will be the ones carrying most of the financial burden.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thunderously-bad-deal-oklahoma-citys-crony-arena-tax

    Austrian Perspectives on Social Justice

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025


    Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way of creating the "just" society.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspectives-social-justice

    The Origins of FDR's Teutonophobia

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025


    It was no secret that President Franklin Roosevelt hated Germany and all things German. Heavily influenced by Silas Marcus MacVane. FDR embraced MacVane's left-leaning progressivism.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/origins-fdrs-teutonophobia

    Tanenhaus and God at Buckley

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025


    The long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr. is hardly worth the wait of thirty years. David Brady, Jr., reviews it, saving our readers the pain of reading themselves.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/tanenhaus-and-god-buckley

    Jefferson Davis von Hayek?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025


    While Hayek did not write directly about the American Civil War, some of his writings provide insights on the conflict.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/jefferson-davis-von-hayek

    Why Governments Burned Money

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025


    While it is true that colonial era governments sometimes burned paper money after receiving it in the form of taxation, why they burned the money is for reasons other than what MMT advocates are claiming. In the end, the MMT promoters are telling a false history.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-governments-burned-money

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