https://mises.org/ en Wed, 22 Jul 26 11:00:00 -0500 https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/cronyism-origins-federal-reserve The Fed was sold as a check on Wall Street's power. Wall Street's share of the nation's bank reserves went up after it passed, not down. Patrick Newman on the Federal Reserve as cronyism. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/cronyism-origins-federal-reserve https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/inflation-and-family Sociologists blame job instability. Legal scholars blame deregulation. Jeffrey Degner noticed all the clues point back to the same address: the Federal Reserve. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Jeffery L. Degner https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/inflation-and-family https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/public-choice-austrian-perspective We assume people are self-interested in the market and selfless in government. Tate Fegley on why dropping that double standard explains almost everything about how the state actually behaves. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Tate Fegley https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/public-choice-austrian-perspective https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-economic-progress Everyone wants the one key to economic growth—capital, or technology, or trade. Shawn Ritenour argues there is no single key, and that's exactly what the models keep missing. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Shawn Ritenour https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-economic-progress https://mises.org/mises-wire/blame-cronyism-our-economic-woes-not-free-markets Crony capitalism—where politics help decide success and failure in the markets—is a huge problem in our society. The solution is laissez-faire capitalism in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Nolan Denaro https://mises.org/mises-wire/blame-cronyism-our-economic-woes-not-free-markets https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/race-and-discrimination Marx said your logic depends on your class. The Nazis said it depends on your race. Mises had a name for that idea, and an answer to it. Wanjiru Njoya applies it to how we argue about race today. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/race-and-discrimination https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/repugnant-markets A Nobel laureate says some markets are too repugnant to allow and need clever redesign instead. Sandy Klein has a simpler answer: repugnance is just a preference, and the price system already knows what to do with it. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT Sandra Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/repugnant-markets https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/will-you-ever-be-able-buy-house No, it isn't Blackstone, and the boomers didn't take it all. Timothy Terrell separates the housing myths from the real reasons you can't afford a house. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/will-you-ever-be-able-buy-house https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:01:01 CDT Heather Carson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Heather Carson https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/tariffs-vs-free-trade A trade deficit sounds like losing—buying more than you sell. Lucas Engelhardt on why that 200-year-old intuition is exactly backwards, and what a deficit actually means. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Lucas M. Engelhardt https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/tariffs-vs-free-trade https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/price-controls Rent control's cruelest irony: it makes discrimination cheaper. Joseph Salerno on the long-run effects of price caps that almost no one sees coming. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/price-controls https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/competition-and-monopoly The textbook model of "perfect competition" bans advertising, price cuts, and better products—the very things we mean by competing. Tate Fegley on why the mainstream picture of monopoly is upside down. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Tate Fegley https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/competition-and-monopoly https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-business-cycle The recession isn't the disease, it's the cure. Patrick Newman on why the Austrians blame the boom, not the bust, and trace it all to one cause. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-business-cycle https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:17:57 CDT Joseph Russo https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union https://mises.org/mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Joseph Russo https://mises.org/mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-capital-theory When savers cut back and consumption falls, most economists cry "recession!" Paul Cwik on why an Austrian sees the opposite: an economy quietly retooling for future growth. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Paul F. Cwik https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-capital-theory https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border While many immigrants bring entrepreneurial skills, they often settle in US cities governed by leftists who are hostile to private enterprise. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:54:06 CDT Angelo Monaco https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a different path. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:07:02 CDT Kevin Duffy https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/calculation-and-socialism The socialist calculation problem isn't a museum piece from 1920s Moscow. It's the Bureau of Land Management, this year. Timothy Terrell on why bureaucrats are still groping in the dark. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/calculation-and-socialism https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr. Wanjiru Njoya looks into the competing ideological claims that go with analyzing the American Revolution. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:47:01 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/theory-interest Interest isn't the price of borrowing money or the reward for productive capital. It's the price we put on now over later. Jeffrey Herbener on time preference and the theory of interest. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Jeffrey M. Herbener https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/theory-interest https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion The growing power of the centralized state loomed as the central problem for liberalism in the early nineteenth century, and the works of these three writers are a response to it. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:15:02 CDT Ralph Raico https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion https://mises.org/power-market/colonel-doug-macgregor-sleepwalking-world-war-iii Colonel Douglas Macgregor holds up a mirror to the West and uses his deep historical knowledge and personal experience of previous conflicts to clearly demonstrate the parallels, the motivations and the dynamics that are still in place and dictate policy to this day. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Claudio Grass https://mises.org/power-market/colonel-doug-macgregor-sleepwalking-world-war-iii https://mises.org/mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr. Wanjiru Njoya looks into the competing ideological claims that go with analyzing the American Revolution. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/banking Your bank says the money in your checking account is yours, available in full, any time. Its own balance sheet says it's holding a fraction of it. Jonathan Newman on what banks actually do with your deposits. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/banking https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/money Try paying for a roof in moonwalk lessons. That's the problem money solves. Sandy Klein on why barter fails and how gold became money. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Sandra Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/money https://mises.org/mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a different path. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Kevin Duffy https://mises.org/mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/entrepreneurship Take the entrepreneur out of the picture, Mises said, and the entire market economy grinds to a halt. Peter Klein on why bearing uncertainty is the most fundamental act in economics. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Peter G. Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/entrepreneurship https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/division-labor-and-social-order Shawn Ritenour shows how the division of labor turns our inequalities into the glue of society, and why the only way to profit in a market is to serve someone else first. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Shawn Ritenour https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/division-labor-and-social-order https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/subjective-value-and-market-prices Jeffrey Herbener builds Austrian price theory from the ground up. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Jeffrey M. Herbener https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/subjective-value-and-market-prices https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-technology-shocks-cause-boom-bust-cycles For a while, some economists tried to claim that business cycles are the result of significant changes in technology. The Austrians have a better explanation. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-technology-shocks-cause-boom-bust-cycles https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/praxeology No graphs, no data, no experiments—just logic. David Gordon on how Austrian economists reason from a single starting point: humans act. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/praxeology https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/birth-austrian-school Why is water nearly free while diamonds cost millions, when you'd die in three days without one and never miss the other? In 1871, Carl Menger finally solved it. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/birth-austrian-school https://mises.org/power-market/argentina-and-its-eternal-vocation-mediocrity Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Alejandro A. Tagliavini https://mises.org/power-market/argentina-and-its-eternal-vocation-mediocrity https://mises.org/mises-wire/alan-greenspans-deceitful-legacy Willie Sutton was a famous bank robber. The late Alan Greenspan used banks and the monetary system to take infinitely more money from Americans than Sutton ever stole. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/alan-greenspans-deceitful-legacy https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/why-mises-university-matters Opening the 40th Mises University, Professor Hülsmann tells how the Austrian school came back from near-extinction—and why Mises U was central to its revival. Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:10:00 CDT Jörg Guido Hülsmann https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/why-mises-university-matters https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/major-party-realignment Mark Thornton examines the rise of democratic socialism, the political realignment it may trigger, and why young Americans are embracing bad solutions to real problems. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/major-party-realignment https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-ominous-opportunity Do we embrace artificial intelligence, or do we fear it? Both, actually. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Clifford F. Thies, John Elrick https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-ominous-opportunity https://mises.org/mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border While many immigrants bring entrepreneurial skills, they often settle in US cities governed by leftists who are hostile to private enterprise. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Angelo Monaco https://mises.org/mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border https://mises.org/mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion The growing power of the centralized state loomed as the central problem for liberalism in the early nineteenth century, and the works of these three writers are a response to it. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Ralph Raico https://mises.org/mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-democratic-socialism The problem with socialism was never the wrong people in charge. It was socialism. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:15:01 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-democratic-socialism https://mises.org/mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik While people claim they want the "virtuous" state with citizens to match, what we really get is realpolitik, whether we want it or not. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik While people claim they want the "virtuous" state with citizens to match, what we really get is realpolitik, whether we want it or not. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/keith-knights-top-ten-problems-democratic-socialism Bob sits down with the managing editor of the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight, to sample arguments from his recent four-hour video cataloguing sixty-four problems with democratic socialism. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy, Keith Knight https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/keith-knights-top-ten-problems-democratic-socialism https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/ntd-news-dr-mark-thornton-why-socialism-doesnt-work There has been growing interest in democratic socialism, particularly among younger voters and progressive politicians in the United States. NTD discussed this trend with Mark Thornton, a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/ntd-news-dr-mark-thornton-why-socialism-doesnt-work https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/small-america-first In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon revisits the argument that the American republic has grown far too big, and that a smaller America would also be a freer America. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/small-america-first https://mises.org/power-market/congressional-ratification-president-trumps-corporatism Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Ron Paul https://mises.org/power-market/congressional-ratification-president-trumps-corporatism https://mises.org/mises-wire/economic-foundations-and-christianity-are-compatible Joshua Mawhorter reviews Dr. Shawn Ritenour’s Foundations of Economics: A Christian View. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/economic-foundations-and-christianity-are-compatible https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/graham-mcconnell-and-americas-late-soviet-politics On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor discuss the death of Lindsey Graham, the questions around Mitch McConnell, and provide a preview of next week's Mises University. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/graham-mcconnell-and-americas-late-soviet-politics https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/predatory-logic-state While we speak highly of “rule of law” and the “limited state,” the unfortunate truth is that the modern state is a law unto itself. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:05:02 CDT Agustín Toptschij https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/predatory-logic-state https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/most-overvalued-stock-market-1927 Is the U.S. stock market more overvalued than at any point in the last 150 years—except for 1927? Mark Thornton believes today's extreme valuations, rising leverage, and mounting fiscal pressures are creating the conditions for a major market reckoning. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:30:09 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/most-overvalued-stock-market-1927 https://mises.org/mises-wire/predatory-logic-state While we speak highly of “rule of law” and the “limited state,” the unfortunate truth is that the modern state is a law unto itself. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Agustín Toptschij https://mises.org/mises-wire/predatory-logic-state https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:01:24 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolutionaries embraced imperialism over freedom. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:24:02 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation https://mises.org/power-market/populism-will-not-solve-housing-affordability-crisis-markets-will Americans are increasingly unable to afford housing. For many young people, the “American Dream” seems out of reach. In moments of economic frustration, populists on both the Left and Right rush to identify villains. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Ruel Domi https://mises.org/power-market/populism-will-not-solve-housing-affordability-crisis-markets-will https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices World Cup tickets are a hot commodity with prices through the roof. Naturally, governments want to do what governments always do unsuccessfully: levy price controls. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:50:25 CDT Josh Bozzick https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things are useful tools for a state that wishes to dominate its citizens. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:06:57 CDT Antony Sammeroff https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state https://mises.org/mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolutionaries embraced imperialism over freedom. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/brokenomics-austrian-economics-jonathan-newman Lotus Eaters podcast host Dan Tubb speaks with Dr. Jonathan Newman about Austrian Economics. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:30:20 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/brokenomics-austrian-economics-jonathan-newman https://mises.org/mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things are useful tools for a state that wishes to dominate its citizens. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Antony Sammeroff https://mises.org/mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken-speaker-panel Ryan McMaken, Timothy Terrell, Charles Sauer, and Robert Murphy take questions from the audience on healthcare economics, free market alternatives, and the prospects for reform. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:15:26 CDT Ryan McMaken, Timothy D. Terrell, Charles Sauer, Robert P. Murphy, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken-speaker-panel https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians America’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger Americans to a caste of older, wealthier generations. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:31:02 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution If avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and his conservative followers don't offer this. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:02:02 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians America’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger Americans to a caste of older, wealthier generations. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians https://mises.org/notes-margin/why-movement-conservatisms-excommunications-have-always-been-about-foreign-policy For conservative leaders like Buckley, what really matters is that you support the American imperial warfare state. The stuff about freedom is window dressing. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT David Brady, Jr. https://mises.org/notes-margin/why-movement-conservatisms-excommunications-have-always-been-about-foreign-policy https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution If avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and his conservative followers don't offer this. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/how-fix-economics-healthcare Bob Murphy makes the case that American healthcare's dysfunction is not a market failure but a pricing failure manufactured by government. He closes with practical reform proposals designed to restore market signals without waiting for Washington. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:00:26 CDT Robert P. Murphy https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/how-fix-economics-healthcare https://mises.org/mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices World Cup tickets are a hot commodity with prices through the roof. Naturally, governments want to do what governments always do unsuccessfully: levy price controls. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Josh Bozzick https://mises.org/mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/why-do-so-many-intellectuals-hate-free-markets It's not the starving artist who resents capitalism—it's the millionaire columnist. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:28:03 CDT Ralph Raico https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/why-do-so-many-intellectuals-hate-free-markets https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows Lolcows, part of the world of internet personalities, would seem well beyond the world of economic analysis. Yet, much of what happens can be explained by the paradigm of Austrian economics. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Philippe Lemieux https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act Great Britain’s “Equality Act” is not simply a civil rights bill gone too far. It is, as Murray Rothbard would have put it, a “monstrous” piece of legislation that looks to create a social and economic equality that could never exist. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:18:58 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken Charles Sauer profiles four healthcare entrepreneurs who built functioning free-market alternatives to the broken hospital system before turning to Washington to explain why Capitol Hill is not the solution, walking through the government-created distortions that sustain the status quo. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:15:26 CDT Charles Sauer https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/poland-now-its-still-paper-tiger Since abandoning socialism 30 years ago, Poland’s economy has grown, as one would expect with a market economy. However, there could be more economic freedom there that easily would translate into a booming economy. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:12:12 CDT Jeremy E. Powell https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/poland-now-its-still-paper-tiger https://mises.org/power-market/pikachus-pokemon-price-information There are several interesting economic lessons to learn from Pokémon cards. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Kevin Van Elswyk https://mises.org/power-market/pikachus-pokemon-price-information https://mises.org/mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act Great Britain’s “Equality Act” is not simply a civil rights bill gone too far. It is, as Murray Rothbard would have put it, a “monstrous” piece of legislation that looks to create a social and economic equality that could never exist. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows Lolcows, part of the world of internet personalities, would seem well beyond the world of economic analysis. Yet, much of what happens can be explained by the paradigm of Austrian economics. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:43:26 CDT Philippe Lemieux https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/rise-state-controlled-medical-care Timothy Terrell traces the historical origins of the American healthcare cartel, beginning with Ronald Hamowy's 1979 article documenting how the AMA used state licensing laws not to protect patients but to restrict physician supply and raise incomes. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:02:26 CDT Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/rise-state-controlled-medical-care https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/private-property-public-purpose Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:07:03 CDT Henry Hazlitt https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/private-property-public-purpose https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/carl-menger-crown-prince-rudolf-and-marginal-revolution-never-was Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph. But Rudolph’s untimely death in 1889 would end up changing the ruling dynamics of pre-World War I Central Europe. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:34:57 CDT Justin M. Ptak https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/carl-menger-crown-prince-rudolf-and-marginal-revolution-never-was https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-keynesian-theory-insufficient-demand Keynesians claim that recessions occur because of a lack of consumer demand. However, demand comes from what we produce, so a growing economy needs more production. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-keynesian-theory-insufficient-demand https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/nationalization-credit The essay added later to the collection: a critique of proposals to nationalize banking and credit, weighing bureaucratic against profit management and warning of credit overexpansion and immobilization. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:21:34 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/nationalization-credit https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/theory-price-controls Mises’s focused analysis of price controls: why fixing prices produces shortages and demands for still more controls, and what that reveals for the theory of social organization as a whole. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:38:25 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/theory-price-controls https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/anti-marxism How German “anti-Marxism,” including national (anti-Marxian) socialism, absorbed the very Marxian ideas it claimed to oppose, with Werner Sombart as the case study of a thinker Marxist and anti-Marxist by turns. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:01:20 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/anti-marxism https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/social-liberalism A critique of the German “Socialists of the Chair” and their social policy—by way of the Methodenstreit, the clash of control versus economic law, and Max Weber—showing how “social liberalism” abandons liberalism itself. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:58:27 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/social-liberalism https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/does-free-market-naturally-lead-price-deflation Bob uses U.S. economic history, centering on the greenback era, to work through some subtle but important distinctions in Austrian monetary theory. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:30:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/does-free-market-naturally-lead-price-deflation https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/hampered-market-economy Mises examines the doctrine of a “hampered” or regulated market as a distinct third system and answers Schmalenbach’s thesis that free enterprise was giving way to a bound economy. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:28:02 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/hampered-market-economy https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/interventionism The central essay: interventionism as a supposed economic system, the real nature of intervention, and how price ceilings, minimum wages, and similar measures defeat their own aims—leaving only a choice between the free market and socialism. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:09:11 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/interventionism https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/preface Mises’s 1929 preface, written in Vienna for the original German edition, presenting the essays as a sustained critique of interventionism, then the reigning economic policy across Europe and America. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:59:59 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/preface https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/introduction Hans F. Sennholz, the translator, lays out Mises’s target—the belief in a “third system” of a hampered market economy standing between capitalism and socialism—and why that middle way cannot hold. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:57:05 CDT Hans F. Sennholz https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/introduction https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/foreword Margit von Mises introduces the collection, recalling that these essays date from the 1920s and noting that the final essay was added to the later German edition. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:53:02 CDT Margit von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/foreword https://mises.org/power-market/latest-model-cars-big-brother-watching-you What was once a symbol of American freedom and independence, automobiles are rapidly transforming into a high-tech cage that watches their every move and can override their decisions at will. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Alejandro A. Tagliavini https://mises.org/power-market/latest-model-cars-big-brother-watching-you https://mises.org/power-market/friedrich-hayek-knowledge-problem-and-case-iran Hayek’s contribution lies not only in defending markets, but in explaining why centralized economic control is epistemologically constrained. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Amir Azadarmaki https://mises.org/power-market/friedrich-hayek-knowledge-problem-and-case-iran https://mises.org/power-market/solving-relationship-gaps-mathematics-and-austrian-economics Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Conner McEleney https://mises.org/power-market/solving-relationship-gaps-mathematics-and-austrian-economics https://mises.org/mises-wire/dont-blame-billionaires-change-incentives Socialists claim that US billionaires are “running the country” by influencing politicians with their money, and the “solution” is to confiscate most of their wealth. But their wealth is not the problem; predatory government is. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/dont-blame-billionaires-change-incentives https://mises.org/notes-margin/javier-mileis-aura-fades-argentina-braces-peronist-resurgence " By July 2026, the libertarian president’s approval rating has plummeted to 35.5 percent, with disapproval surging to 63 percent..." Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/javier-mileis-aura-fades-argentina-braces-peronist-resurgence https://mises.org/notes-margin/sen-lindsey-graham-dead One of the US Senate's most committed warmongers died over the weekend. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/sen-lindsey-graham-dead https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/get-out-fiat-currency-monetary-reset-warning Dr. Mark Thornton warns that the monetary system may be moving toward greater digital control, persistent inflation, and a potential monetary reset. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/get-out-fiat-currency-monetary-reset-warning https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/dupes-war-mises-statism-propaganda-and-foreign-conflict Mark Thornton warns that war propaganda turns citizens into dupes. Ludwig von Mises’s critique of statism explains why foreign conflicts keep returning. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/dupes-war-mises-statism-propaganda-and-foreign-conflict