https://mises.org/ en Wed, 12 Aug 26 07:00:00 -0500 https://mises.org/power-market/will-money-matter-economy-significantly-more-productive In a recent interview with The Economist, Elon Musk boldly contended that “money won’t matter in 2036.” He doesn’t understand money’s role. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Holden Mitrione https://mises.org/power-market/will-money-matter-economy-significantly-more-productive https://mises.org/mises-wire/return-economic-gaslighting Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/return-economic-gaslighting https://mises.org/mises-wire/freedom-speech-dying-slow-death-europe By branding censorship as “safety,” surveillance as “protection,” and political conformity as “civic duty,” European states have constructed a system where dissent is pathologized and criminalized. The UK is following the same dystopian path. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Claudio Grass https://mises.org/mises-wire/freedom-speech-dying-slow-death-europe https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/mark-thornton-joins-capitalcosm-discusses-gold-inflation-and-interest-rates Mises Institute senior fellow Mark Thornton joins Capital Cosm to discuss what rising gold and silver prices, stubborn long-term interest rates, and growing pressure on the dollar may be signaling about the economy. Thornton explains how monetary inflation, government debt, and changing global demand for the dollar are reshaping financial markets—and why sound economic thinking matters in uncertain times. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/mark-thornton-joins-capitalcosm-discusses-gold-inflation-and-interest-rates https://mises.org/power-market/unhappy-anniversary Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:00:00 CDT Ron Paul https://mises.org/power-market/unhappy-anniversary https://mises.org/mises-wire/substance-beats-labels-fighting-marxism Few Marxists admit to being Marxists. Instead, they are true believers in the creation of the utopian society—if only the rest of us will give them the power they deserve. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/substance-beats-labels-fighting-marxism https://mises.org/notes-margin/hegseth-still-lobbying-15-trillion-military-budget Trump wants a huge 50% increase to the war budget for his endless wars in Ukraine and Iran. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/hegseth-still-lobbying-15-trillion-military-budget https://mises.org/mises-wire/alchemy-wealth-taxation California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax is being sold to voters as a way to replenish the state’s tax coffers with billions of new dollars. What it actually will do is to end the vital capital investment that has driven California’s economy for decades. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Robert Blumen https://mises.org/mises-wire/alchemy-wealth-taxation https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflationary-expectations-and-increases-prices-any-relationship Mainstream economists believe that central banks can “control” inflation, which they believe actually boosts the economy. The only thing inflation boosts is more inflation. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflationary-expectations-and-increases-prices-any-relationship https://mises.org/mises-wire/barbarous-relics-revenge Economic, political, and academic elites have declared gold to be a “barbarous relic,” but in the end gold always is the best choice for money. More than a century of the Fed's paper-based inflation is all the proof we need. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/barbarous-relics-revenge https://mises.org/events/fall-campus-mises-book-clubs This fall, students from across the US are participating in Mises Book Clubs led by scholars at various universities and colleges. These student groups promote deep reading in Austrian economics. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/events/fall-campus-mises-book-clubs https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/republican-party-displacement Mark Thornton explains how ideology can break the uniparty, why blocked realignment risks revolution, and why Austrian economics helps young Americans see through the crisis. Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/republican-party-displacement https://mises.org/mises-wire/hamiltonian-ai-curse-how-american-tech-learned-make-its-losses-everyone-elses-problem When government becomes involved in finance, interest groups abound, each one seeking wealth transfers to the detriment of others. This has been the case since the founding of this country, and AI is just a new chapter. Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Hamoon Soleimani https://mises.org/mises-wire/hamiltonian-ai-curse-how-american-tech-learned-make-its-losses-everyone-elses-problem https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-brics-gold-standard-fiction For the past few years, we have seen claims that the BRICS countries were going to develop a gold-based trading currency and push the dollar from its reserve currency perch. However, none of the economies of these countries can operate with a currency as good as gold. Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Jeremy E. Powell https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-brics-gold-standard-fiction https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/5-things-anthony-fauci-teaches-us-about-american-government Fauci is back in the limelight after the release of his diary before a Senate hearing last week. And that’s good, because the career of Anthony Fauci can teach us a lot about where power actually resides in America and how our system really works. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:29:47 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/5-things-anthony-fauci-teaches-us-about-american-government https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/myths-american-healthcare Much of the discussion around American healthcare ignores the fact that most of the American healthcare system is already a government healthcare system. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:00:03 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/myths-american-healthcare https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-progress-turns-against-itself-rise-anti-progress An article of faith with modern progressives is that all social problems can be solved with the growth and application of the administrative state. They have faith in the wrong thing. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Luc Lelièvre https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-progress-turns-against-itself-rise-anti-progress https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/what-did-you-expect In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes issue with the DEI movement in higher education, pointing to the utterly absurd case of Jason Arday, a professor of the sociology of education at Cambridge University, as DEI's poster child. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/what-did-you-expect https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:33:38 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history https://mises.org/notes-margin/cops-shoot-and-paralyze-man-who-told-police-he-feared-being-swatted A man told the police he feared being "swatted" by scammers. The cops ignored this and attacked the innocent man instead. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/cops-shoot-and-paralyze-man-who-told-police-he-feared-being-swatted https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/burritoflation-debate On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the social debate this week focused on Gen Z economic anxiety. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/burritoflation-debate https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:55:38 CDT Constantine Taurai https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-dont-we-keep-buying-and-buying In 1871, Carl Menger gave what still is the best explanation of diminishing marginal utility. What was true in 1871 is true today. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Soham Patil https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-dont-we-keep-buying-and-buying https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:38:57 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Constantine Taurai https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/why-mises-thought-fractional-reserve-banking-caused-boom-bust-cycle Bob returns to the fractional reserve banking debate to clarify a point the critics keep missing: in the Mises-Hayek-Rothbard framework, it's fractional reserve banking itself that sets the boom-bust cycle in motion, not merely central banks. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/why-mises-thought-fractional-reserve-banking-caused-boom-bust-cycle https://mises.org/power-market/conservative-aei-now-embraces-lefts-decolonization-narrative Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/power-market/conservative-aei-now-embraces-lefts-decolonization-narrative https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-commerce-department-venture-capitalist-political-investment-its-worst By convincing Congress to permit the government to take equity positions in private firms, Donald Trump has completed the transition of the economy from free markets to political capitalism. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-commerce-department-venture-capitalist-political-investment-its-worst https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/road-ahead Deflate the dollars, or redefine the dollar’s weight—or some blend of the two. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:29:43 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/road-ahead https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/100-percent-gold-tradition Not a novelty but an inheritance: Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, and hard-money. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:24:33 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/100-percent-gold-tradition https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/professor-yeager-and-100-percent-gold An opponent of gold describes the 100 percent standard better than its friends do. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:15:30 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/professor-yeager-and-100-percent-gold https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/objections-100-percent-gold The supply of money, Rothbard answers, essentially does not matter. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:02:43 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/objections-100-percent-gold https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/100-percent-gold-banking Issuing receipts for gold that does not exist is not banking. It is fraud. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:51:39 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/100-percent-gold-banking https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/decline-weight-name-encouraging-bank-inflation The natural tendency of the state is inflation. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:45:39 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/decline-weight-name-encouraging-bank-inflation https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:37:25 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/decline-weight-name-monopolizing-mint The first intervention was not inflation. It was the seizure of the mint. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:34:23 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/decline-weight-name-monopolizing-mint https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/dollar-independent-name-or-unit-weight If dollars are things in themselves, why may not everyone manufacture them? Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:23:16 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/dollar-independent-name-or-unit-weight https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/money-and-freedom To argue for a full gold standard is to risk being classed with the dodo bird. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:20:25 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/money-and-freedom https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/preface Bretton Woods was a dollar standard wearing the prestige of gold. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:11:21 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/case-100-percent-gold-dollar/preface https://mises.org/mises-wire/property-rights-duality-and-defense-freedom It is not enough to treat property as a default state of nature that will eventually assert itself and merely needs to be intellectually explained. We must continually be ready to defend private property. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Finn Andreen https://mises.org/mises-wire/property-rights-duality-and-defense-freedom https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/dr-mark-thornton-joins-david-lin-report Dr. Mark Thornton joins David Lin to discuss the AI investment surge, tariffs, inflation, the Fed’s interest-rate dilemma, and the broader risks facing the economy. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/dr-mark-thornton-joins-david-lin-report https://mises.org/power-market/call-iran-war-just-walk-away Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 CDT Ron Paul https://mises.org/power-market/call-iran-war-just-walk-away https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-anthony-fauci-teaches-us-about-american-government Fauci is back in the limelight after the release of his diary before a Senate hearing last week. And that’s good, because the career of Anthony Fauci can teach us a lot about where power actually resides in America and how our system really works. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-anthony-fauci-teaches-us-about-american-government https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-only-has-43-day-emergency-buffer-crude-oil-left-45-year-low More 5-D chess from Trump: U.S. crude oil supplies have fallen to their lowest level in 45 years as President Donald Trump continues to wage war against Iran. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-only-has-43-day-emergency-buffer-crude-oil-left-45-year-low https://mises.org/mises-wire/slobodians-bastard-caricatures-smearing-austrian-economists Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards suggests a connection between Austrian economics and a new wave of authoritarianism and racism. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Jesse Russell https://mises.org/mises-wire/slobodians-bastard-caricatures-smearing-austrian-economists https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently? Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:54:02 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco https://mises.org/mises-wire/problems-causation-race-and-discrimination Why are there economic disparities between racial groups? A popular explanation is that they are caused by racial discrimination. Wanjiru Njoya takes a closer look at these claims. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/problems-causation-race-and-discrimination https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently? Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/debt-gold-and-global-economy Andy Schectman, Founder & CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, interviews Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, to discuss why he believes the global economy is approaching a critical turning point driven by mounting debt, declining trust, and years of monetary distortion. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/debt-gold-and-global-economy https://mises.org/mises-wire/monetary-savings-versus-real-savings-0 Mainstream economists tend to think of cash balances as the heart of new savings. Actually, real savings involves much more than that. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/monetary-savings-versus-real-savings-0 https://mises.org/power-market/federal-farm-interventions-harmful-usual The federal government aid program in one part of the economy creates a problem. Washington policymakers see a new problem. They believe the federal government should create a new aid program to solve the problem created by the earlier government aid program. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Stephen Anderson https://mises.org/power-market/federal-farm-interventions-harmful-usual https://mises.org/mises-wire/slumlord-fed If we wish to be honest, the Federal Reserve System needs to be put out of its—and our—misery. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/slumlord-fed https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-spending-billions-prop-japanese-yen The background: Japan is selling U.S. bonds and that's not great for the U.S. because it lowers bond prices and raises yields. In other words: higher interest rates for you and me. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-spending-billions-prop-japanese-yen https://mises.org/events/fall-2026-virtual-mises-book-club In September 2026, the Mises Institute will hold its next Mises Book Clubs, a program that promotes deep reading in Austrian economics. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/events/fall-2026-virtual-mises-book-club https://mises.org/mises-wire/get-your-free-august-rothbard-giveaway-case-100-percent-gold-dollar To celebrate The Year of Rothbard, we’re giving away some of his most radicalizing and influential books. Get your copy of our August offering, The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar, before August 31. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/mises-wire/get-your-free-august-rothbard-giveaway-case-100-percent-gold-dollar https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/gold-socialism-and-crisis-dollar Mark Thornton explains how inflation drives the K-shaped economy, why gold and silver remain central to the debt crisis, and why socialism appeals to young Americans left behind by government failure. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/gold-socialism-and-crisis-dollar https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-economics-made-obvious The beauty of Austrian economics is that it springs from real human action and does not depend upon the construction of abstract mathematical models meant to parallel reality. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT James Anthony https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-economics-made-obvious https://mises.org/mises-wire/fight-your-property-rights As socialists gain increasing power in this country, their first target is private property. We need to push back against this wave of legalized theft. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Finn Andreen https://mises.org/mises-wire/fight-your-property-rights https://mises.org/power-market/why-comments-sections-are-not-coming-back-misesorg Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/power-market/why-comments-sections-are-not-coming-back-misesorg https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/when-limited-government-fails-stop-cronyism-and-state-sponsored-wealth-grabbing In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Cronyism: Rise of the Corporate State 1849–1929 by Patrick Newman. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/when-limited-government-fails-stop-cronyism-and-state-sponsored-wealth-grabbing https://mises.org/mises-wire/democracy-bureaucracy-idiocracy Modern mass democracy, especially when coupled with bureaucracy, creates uniquely powerful incentives for the production, consumption, and institutionalization of unreality. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/democracy-bureaucracy-idiocracy https://mises.org/notes-margin/italy-suspends-its-schengen-free-movement-agreement-spain-after-60000-migrants-reach-spanish-territory-0 The locals still have some control over their own borders, unlike in the USA where the central government dictates border policy for all. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/italy-suspends-its-schengen-free-movement-agreement-spain-after-60000-migrants-reach-spanish-territory-0 https://mises.org/mises-wire/zimbabwe-has-no-long-money More than a decade ago, Zimbabwe became synonymous with hyperinflation. While that era has mercifully passed, the nation’s central bank still is following inflationary policies. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Jabulani Chibaya https://mises.org/mises-wire/zimbabwe-has-no-long-money https://mises.org/power-market/burying-lindsey-graham-wont-be-easy Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:00:00 CDT Karen Kwiatkowski https://mises.org/power-market/burying-lindsey-graham-wont-be-easy https://mises.org/notes-margin/commerce-department-quietly-announces-7-new-equity-stakes-private-companies The Trump government is expanding its ownership of the means of production. Marx would approve. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/commerce-department-quietly-announces-7-new-equity-stakes-private-companies https://mises.org/power-market/sure-way-destroy-prosperous-nation The sure way to destroy a prosperous nation is to debase the currency. History is full of examples—from ancient Rome to the nascent French Republic to Weimar Germany. The US and the West, fiat currency regimes all, are irrevocably destined to join this sorry club. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Patrick Barron https://mises.org/power-market/sure-way-destroy-prosperous-nation https://mises.org/mises-wire/goal-socialists-socialism-not-prosperity Some claim that if socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. This is doubtful since the larger motivation is often political control. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/goal-socialists-socialism-not-prosperity https://mises.org/notes-margin/whitney-webb-polymarket-tool-federal-mass-surveillance “ Polymarket and Palantir are partners... The goal is not just … mass surveillance ... It’s predictive policing. ...This is the privatized panopticon.” Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/whitney-webb-polymarket-tool-federal-mass-surveillance https://mises.org/library/book/cronyism-rise-corporatist-state-1849-1929 The evolution of the US government into a powerful cartelizer of the economy required special interests persistently lobbying to reduce competitive market pressures. It required cronyism: government intervention that benefits special interests at the expense of public interest. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/library/book/cronyism-rise-corporatist-state-1849-1929 https://mises.org/mises-wire/skeptical-guide-ubi The Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a bad idea that just won't die. Time to throw it on the ash heap of bad policies. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Conner McEleney https://mises.org/mises-wire/skeptical-guide-ubi https://mises.org/mises-wire/illinois-takes-swipe-interchange-fees-and-misses While governments charge fees for just about everything, suddenly governments have decided that private fees are harmful. Illinois has been especially aggressive in trying to make certain transaction fees illegal, but the results are different than what politicians there anticipated. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Tyler Curtis https://mises.org/mises-wire/illinois-takes-swipe-interchange-fees-and-misses https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-free-banking-scotland Scotland's celebrated free banks were neither free nor superior. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:21:01 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-free-banking-scotland https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:47:02 CDT Carlos Dória https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along https://mises.org/power-market/aluminums-heavyweight Two US government interventions are impacting global aluminum’s supply, demand, and prices. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Stephen Anderson https://mises.org/power-market/aluminums-heavyweight https://mises.org/notes-margin/it-turns-out-trump-blew-all-those-boats-caribbean-nothing The claim that the US attacks on "drug runners" in the Caribbean has not affected the drug trade at all. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/it-turns-out-trump-blew-all-those-boats-caribbean-nothing https://mises.org/mises-wire/back-ussr-spending-two-weeks-real-socialist-country It is one thing to understand socialism on an abstract basis but quite another to spend an extended amount of time in a socialist country, this one being the former USSR. The failures of socialism become obvious when seen on the ground. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Patrick Barron https://mises.org/mises-wire/back-ussr-spending-two-weeks-real-socialist-country https://mises.org/notes-margin/japanese-population-drops-17th-year-row-down-below-120-million The number of Japanese residents fell by 916,744, or 0.76%, to 119,736,483, marking the 17th consecutive year of decline, and the sharpest drop on record. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/japanese-population-drops-17th-year-row-down-below-120-million https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/rothbard-vs-free-bankers Bob reviews Murray Rothbard's 1988 essay "The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland," his sharp response to Larry White's influential account of Scottish free banking. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/rothbard-vs-free-bankers https://mises.org/mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Carlos Dória https://mises.org/mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/dupes-war No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:37:11 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/dupes-war https://mises.org/power-market/supreme-court-plays-wizard-oz-fed Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Ethan Savka https://mises.org/power-market/supreme-court-plays-wizard-oz-fed https://mises.org/notes-margin/netanyahu-endorses-flavio-bolsonaro-next-president-brazil The Israeli president joins Milei in pushing a pro-Israel axis of states in the Americas. (With the US leading the way, of course.) Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/netanyahu-endorses-flavio-bolsonaro-next-president-brazil https://mises.org/mises-wire/dei-any-other-name-still-just-sinister Despite opposition from the Trump administration and the backlash against its implementation, DEI still has not disappeared from our body politic. It takes on other names, but not other forms. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/dei-any-other-name-still-just-sinister https://mises.org/notes-margin/keiko-fujimori-sworn-new-president-peru "Conservative leader Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president Tuesday after winning the June election by fewer than 50,000 votes." Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/keiko-fujimori-sworn-new-president-peru https://mises.org/notes-margin/newly-leaked-diaries-reveal-many-lies-tax-parasite-anthony-fauci Fauci hid key facts from Congress and the public in order to relentlessly promote himself. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/newly-leaked-diaries-reveal-many-lies-tax-parasite-anthony-fauci https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-v-applying-treatise-1956-1962 In 1962, despite professional and institutional obstacles, Man, Economy, and State was finally published. With it, Rothbard greatly advanced the Austrian tradition and firmly positioned himself as Mises’s heir. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:31:48 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-v-applying-treatise-1956-1962 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iv-rothbardian-theory-interventionism-1955-1956 With advances in the Austrian theory of the business cycle, Rothbard finally completed the monumental task of deducing the entire corpus of economic theory using the praxeological method. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:03:48 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iv-rothbardian-theory-interventionism-1955-1956 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iii-bohm-bawerkian-treatise-1953-1955 Murray Rothbard’s project drastically changed in mid-1953. Unable to rely on Mises’s sparse treatment of production theory, Rothbard adopted his old Marshallian approach, focusing on an individual firm that faced fixed prices and restricted investment decisions. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:16:40 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iii-bohm-bawerkian-treatise-1953-1955 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-ii-misesian-textbook-1949-1953 Murray Rothbard’s economic perspective changed significantly in 1949 when he met Ludwig von Mises and read his magnum opus, Human Action. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:01:36 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-ii-misesian-textbook-1949-1953 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-i-neoclassical-training-1945-1949 Murray Rothbard started his career with a foundational training in neoclassical economics. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:34:50 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-i-neoclassical-training-1945-1949 https://mises.org/mises-wire/dupes-war No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/mises-wire/dupes-war https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/introduction Murray N . Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist is written for everyone interested in Rothbard’s economic theory and Austrian economics in general. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:58:04 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/introduction https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:54:01 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/acknowledgements This book has been several years in the making. Originally we envisioned it as a collection of letters and unpublished monographs from the Rothbard Papers at the Mises Institute. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:23:02 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/acknowledgements https://mises.org/power-market/gov-desantis-signs-big-government-bill-attacking-floridas-gold-industry Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Jp Cortez https://mises.org/power-market/gov-desantis-signs-big-government-bill-attacking-floridas-gold-industry https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:43:57 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race https://mises.org/mises-wire/feds-policy-price-stability-helps-create-unstable-economy The Federal Reserve claims that its policies are aimed a keeping prices stable. However, these policies actually undermine the economy and make it unstable. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/feds-policy-price-stability-helps-create-unstable-economy