https://mises.org/ en Wed, 02 Sep 26 11:00:00 -0500 https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/how-neoliberals-fueled-rise-socialism The neoliberal establishment has done much to define our highly-interventionist, inflationary, and crony system as true free-market capitalism. They shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that people are turning against it. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:39:38 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/how-neoliberals-fueled-rise-socialism https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/no-flock-not-really-private-company The term that best describes the CEO of the "private" company Flock is "parasite" or "plutocrat" or "welfare queen" because his "business model" is simply finding ways to exploit the taxpayers. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:04:12 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/no-flock-not-really-private-company https://mises.org/mises-wire/libertarians-and-political-action Libertarians would like to see the abolishment of the state altogether, but that is not likely in the near future. So, what political actions do libertarians do while the state still has power? Murray Rothbard had some thoughts on that. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:00:00 CDT Hamoon Soleimani https://mises.org/mises-wire/libertarians-and-political-action https://mises.org/mises-wire/capture-constitution-how-public-sector-unions-exploited-free-speech-suppress-black-upward-mobility Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:00:00 CDT Kevin E. Villani https://mises.org/mises-wire/capture-constitution-how-public-sector-unions-exploited-free-speech-suppress-black-upward-mobility https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-flock-not-really-private-company The term that best describes the CEO of the "private" company Flock is "parasite" or "plutocrat" or "welfare queen" because his "business model" is simply finding ways to exploit the taxpayers. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-flock-not-really-private-company https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/ethical-foundations-just-war-doctrine Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:54:54 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/ethical-foundations-just-war-doctrine https://mises.org/power-market/curtis-yarvin-comes-out-support-flock-cameras Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/power-market/curtis-yarvin-comes-out-support-flock-cameras https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-neoliberals-fueled-rise-socialism The neoliberal establishment has done much to define our highly-interventionist, inflationary, and crony system as true free-market capitalism. They shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that people are turning against it. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-neoliberals-fueled-rise-socialism https://mises.org/notes-margin/jerusalem-post-calls-more-more-americans-enlist-die-israel The JP calls for the US taxpayer to pay a "debt forgiveness for military service" program to enlarge the US's standing army. The whole point being to further subsidize the state of Israel. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/jerusalem-post-calls-more-more-americans-enlist-die-israel https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/credit-out-thin-air-brings-wealth-destruction Federal Reserve policy has been to expand credit out of nothing without regard for the real damage it does to the economy. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:10:10 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/credit-out-thin-air-brings-wealth-destruction https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbards-forgotten-critique-inflation-premium While mainstream economists add an “inflation premium” to interest rates, Murray Rothbard looked at the complete picture, knowing that the real rate of interest dealt with many factors within the structure of production. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:00:00 CDT Kevin Huynh https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbards-forgotten-critique-inflation-premium https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/high-cost-automated-flock-camera-surveillance-state The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:36:12 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/high-cost-automated-flock-camera-surveillance-state https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/appendix-minor-remedies-proposed Public works as a cure for unemployment: proposed, debated, and defended with arguments that would sound familiar a century later. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:59:08 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/appendix-minor-remedies-proposed https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-vii-conclusion The familiar story pits western farmer-debtors against eastern merchant-creditors. Rothbard's evidence says the story is wrong. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:43:15 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-vii-conclusion https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-vi-movement-protective-tariff Mass unemployment gave the protectionists their best argument in a generation, and they nearly won. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:29:09 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-vi-movement-protective-tariff https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-v-restricting-bank-credit-proposals-and-actions Years before the English currency school made it famous, Americans were arguing for one hundred percent reserves, and some wanted banking abolished outright. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:18:09 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-v-restricting-bank-credit-proposals-and-actions https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-iv-proposals-national-monetary-expansion Before the Federal Reserve, before the greenback, American writers were already designing a managed national paper currency, and arguing it could be more stable than gold. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:10:05 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-iv-proposals-national-monetary-expansion https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-iii-state-proposals-and-actions-monetary-expansion Four western states answered the shortage of money by printing their own, and watched it depreciate in their hands. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:06:56 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-iii-state-proposals-and-actions-monetary-expansion https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-i-panic-and-its-genesis-fluctuations-american-business-1815-21 A wartime boom, a flood of bank paper, a speculative rush for western land, and then the reckoning. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:03:06 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-i-panic-and-its-genesis-fluctuations-american-business-1815-21 https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-ii-direct-relief-debtors They borrowed when prices were high and had to repay when prices were low. Should the legislature rescue them, or would rescue only deepen the ruin? Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:03:06 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/chapter-ii-direct-relief-debtors https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/preface America's first great depression arrived without a villain: no embargo, no war, no single blundering minister to blame. It seemed to rise out of the economy itself. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:01:09 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/panic-1819-reactions-and-policies/preface https://mises.org/mises-wire/philosophical-contradictions-democratic-socialism Democratic socialists claim they can painlessly transform the US economy into one where no one has debt, housing and medical care is free, and the state meets everyone's needs. Their ideas are internally incoherent. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 CDT Ruel Domi https://mises.org/mises-wire/philosophical-contradictions-democratic-socialism https://mises.org/mises-wire/high-cost-automated-flock-camera-surveillance-state The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/high-cost-automated-flock-camera-surveillance-state https://mises.org/mises-wire/get-your-free-september-rothbard-giveaway-economic-depressions-their-cause-and-cure To celebrate The Year of Rothbard, we’re giving away some of his most radicalizing and influential books. Get your copy of our September offering, Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure, before September 30. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/mises-wire/get-your-free-september-rothbard-giveaway-economic-depressions-their-cause-and-cure https://mises.org/mises-wire/ethical-foundations-just-war-doctrine Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/ethical-foundations-just-war-doctrine https://mises.org/notes-margin/argentine-peso-hits-new-all-time-low-against-us-dollar It is now down 99.67% over the past 13 years. In 2013, one peso was worth 20 cents, and now it is worth less than one cent. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/argentine-peso-hits-new-all-time-low-against-us-dollar https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:31:12 CDT James Bovard https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:04:23 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT James Bovard https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:50:47 CDT Philippe Lemieux https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:19:02 CDT Thiago V. S. Coelho https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba https://mises.org/mises-wire/credit-out-thin-air-brings-wealth-destruction Federal Reserve policy has been to expand credit out of nothing without regard for the real damage it does to the economy. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/credit-out-thin-air-brings-wealth-destruction https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices https://mises.org/notes-margin/doj-report-details-how-biden-fbi-targeted-traditionalist-catholics FBI agents demonstrated, yet again, that they are the enemies of the American people. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/doj-report-details-how-biden-fbi-targeted-traditionalist-catholics https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/printability-matters Mark Thornton explains the Fed’s real problem: the power to paper over debt, deficits, war, and market cracks until the bill hits consumers. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/printability-matters https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Thiago V. S. Coelho https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-do-capitalism-and-socialism-really-mean Ask a socialist critic of capitalism how to define capitalism and you will probably receive an incoherent answer. Defining these ways of social organization is vital and understanding them is even more important. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Vincent Cook https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-do-capitalism-and-socialism-really-mean https://mises.org/mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Philippe Lemieux https://mises.org/mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/life-and-times-murray-n-rothbard Murray Rothbard entered Columbia University at age 16 and by the time he was graduated from that institution with a Ph.D. in economics, he already had done path-breaking work in economics. His legacy has only grown since then. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/life-and-times-murray-n-rothbard https://mises.org/events/libertarian-scholars-conference-2027 Join us in Auburn for the Libertarian Scholars Conference 2027. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/events/libertarian-scholars-conference-2027 https://mises.org/events/austrian-economics-research-conference-2027 The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual tradition. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/events/austrian-economics-research-conference-2027 https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:23:02 CDT Ulrich Fromy https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state https://mises.org/power-market/great-news-your-boots-are-poor-quality Freer markets have made what were once luxuries available to the masses, despite state interventions and regulations. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Wesley Davenport https://mises.org/power-market/great-news-your-boots-are-poor-quality https://mises.org/mises-wire/telephone-political-entrepreneurship-and-theodore-n-vail Vail recognized that market competition and “regulation and control are inconsistent with each other, and cannot be had at the same time.” Obviously, Vail favored the latter. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/telephone-political-entrepreneurship-and-theodore-n-vail https://mises.org/articles-interest/inflation-how-government-generates-it-and-then-endeavors-shift-responsibility To avoid being blamed for the nefarious consequences of inflation, the government and its henchmen resort to a semantic trick. They try to change the meaning of the terms. They call “inflation” the inevitable consequence of inflation, namely, the rise in prices. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/articles-interest/inflation-how-government-generates-it-and-then-endeavors-shift-responsibility https://mises.org/mises-wire/arday-tragedy-story-institutional-failure-not-witch-hunt The left is trying to reframe the Jason Arday affair as a witch hunt in which a racist media and a jealous professor hounded him to suicide. However, it was Cambridge University that failed, not those that sought the truth. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/mises-wire/arday-tragedy-story-institutional-failure-not-witch-hunt https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Ulrich Fromy https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:30:49 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution https://mises.org/power-market/information-state-progressives-road-dystopia Jacob Siegel visualizes that, in an information-state form of government, government’s ultimate control by voters would get replaced by the digital monopolization of voters’ attention, adjustment of voters’ perceptions, and conditioning of voters to see certain outcomes as inevitable. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT James Anthony https://mises.org/power-market/information-state-progressives-road-dystopia https://mises.org/mises-wire/destabilizing-stabilizers-why-increasing-government-spending-prolongs-recession Keynesian theory says that the way to end a recession in which the economy is in a “liquidity trap” is for government to ramp up spending. Murray Rothbard demonstrated that this policy actually blocks an economic recovery. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/destabilizing-stabilizers-why-increasing-government-spending-prolongs-recession https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:15:45 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution https://mises.org/mises-wire/ludwig-lachmann-and-role-uncertainty-economic-affairs While not as effective an economist as Ludwig von Mises or Murray N. Rothbard, Ludwig Lachmann played an important role in the revitalization of Austrian economics after 1974. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Angelo Monaco https://mises.org/mises-wire/ludwig-lachmann-and-role-uncertainty-economic-affairs https://mises.org/power-market/competition-discovery-procedure-when-schumpeter-meets-hayek Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Nicolai J. Foss https://mises.org/power-market/competition-discovery-procedure-when-schumpeter-meets-hayek https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:29:14 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment https://mises.org/power-market/sabrin-phase-out-social-security Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/power-market/sabrin-phase-out-social-security https://mises.org/power-market/youre-paying-and-paying Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Gregory Bresiger https://mises.org/power-market/youre-paying-and-paying https://mises.org/notes-margin/florida-police-used-fake-flock-camera-sting-then-charged-man-three-felonies-destroying-it The "perp" was charged with causing $1,000 in damage, but what he actually destroyed was a 3D-printed decoy that was likely far cheaper. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/florida-police-used-fake-flock-camera-sting-then-charged-man-three-felonies-destroying-it https://mises.org/mises-wire/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:47:35 CDT Luc Lelièvre https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment https://mises.org/library/periodical/misesian-vol-3-no-4-2026 The articles in this issue help us to understand the true meaning of both the Declaration of Independence and the revolutionary movement that produced it. And, what it is that we are actually celebrating on this 250th anniversary. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/library/periodical/misesian-vol-3-no-4-2026 https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:18:48 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality https://mises.org/misesian/what-made-american-revolution-unique The Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution it launched were unique because they were focused on decentralization, liberty, and limitations on state power. This movement did not “create a nation.” Rather, it seriously challenged and limited the Hobbesian state. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/misesian/what-made-american-revolution-unique https://mises.org/misesian/declaratory-judgment Birzer does not grasp the importance of states’ rights in preserving liberty against the leviathan central government. In Randolph’s words, “I love liberty; I hate equality.” However, readers will learn a great deal from reading it. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/misesian/declaratory-judgment https://mises.org/misesian/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire There is little disagreement that the American healthcare system is broken. It is failing because market forces have been buried under decades of subsidies, regulations, licensing restrictions, and political favoritism. How did this happen and what to can we do about it? Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/misesian/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire https://mises.org/misesian/editor-july-august-2026 In this issue of The Misesian, we bring the focus back to the Americans who brought about what Murray Rothbard has called a truly libertarian revolution against the power of states and imperialism. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/misesian/editor-july-august-2026 https://mises.org/misesian/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy If you have time to read only one book about the American Revolution, it should be this one. It formed the basis for Rothbard’s conclusion that “in the deepest sense, the American Revolution was a conscious majority revolution in behalf of libertarianism and against power." Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/misesian/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy https://mises.org/misesian/40th-anniversary-mises-university Since 1986, Mises University has been the world’s leading academic program advancing Austrian economics. This July, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of our flagship event with students attending from around the world. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/misesian/40th-anniversary-mises-university https://mises.org/misesian/250th-anniversary-declaration-independence As we commemorate the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it deserves to be read as its authors intended: as both a universal defense of natural rights and as a formal declaration by 13 free and independent states that they were assuming their place among the nations of the earth. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Larsen Plyler https://mises.org/misesian/250th-anniversary-declaration-independence https://mises.org/misesian/faculty-spotlight-patrick-newman Patrick Newman is an assistant teaching professor of economics at the University of Tampa and the Murray N. Rothbard Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is the author of several books, the most recent is Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929 (2026). Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/misesian/faculty-spotlight-patrick-newman https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:31:08 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions https://mises.org/notes-margin/israel-funding-ted-cruzs-super-pac-legal The Israeli government-funded ad revenue appears to operate in a gray area, but it seems Tel Aviv is exploiting loopholes to funnel money to Cruz's political war chest. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/israel-funding-ted-cruzs-super-pac-legal https://mises.org/power-market/education-commodity Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Peter G. Klein https://mises.org/power-market/education-commodity https://mises.org/notes-margin/two-japan-bond-auctions-pose-next-threat-us-treasury-yields The US and Japanese bond markets have become increasingly intertwined in recent years as investors grapple with rising government debt and greater volatility. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/two-japan-bond-auctions-pose-next-threat-us-treasury-yields https://mises.org/power-market/medicare-socialist-and-it-costs-too-much Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT D.W. MacKenzie https://mises.org/power-market/medicare-socialist-and-it-costs-too-much https://mises.org/mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality https://mises.org/notes-margin/bessents-former-mentor-druckenmiller-slams-treasury-bond-buyback-plan "Governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose," Druckenmiller wrote. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/bessents-former-mentor-druckenmiller-slams-treasury-bond-buyback-plan https://mises.org/power-market/alex-pollock-wall-street-journal From the Friday, August 21, 2026 print edition. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/power-market/alex-pollock-wall-street-journal https://mises.org/notes-margin/who-knew-genocide-could-be-so-expensive " The debt is real. The murderous destruction of Gaza is real, and the costs to maintain that destruction and rebuild as an Israeli paradise, is unimaginable." Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT Karen Kwiatkowski https://mises.org/notes-margin/who-knew-genocide-could-be-so-expensive https://mises.org/power-market/one-bad-week Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT Ron Paul https://mises.org/power-market/one-bad-week https://mises.org/mises-wire/macroeconomic-data-really-tool-government-intervention Murray Rothbard wrote that statistics are the lifeblood for government intervention. Based on certain presuppositions, statistics allow interventionists to identify “problems” to solve. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/macroeconomic-data-really-tool-government-intervention https://mises.org/power-market/greatest-cover-economic-history-how-washington-hid-its-role-2008-crash By shielding Washington from accountability, the 2008 cover-up institutionalized systemic moral hazard and permanently crippled market discipline. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Kevin Villani https://mises.org/power-market/greatest-cover-economic-history-how-washington-hid-its-role-2008-crash https://mises.org/mises-wire/central-banking-scourge-civilization Despite claims that the Federal Reserve System is a “stabilizing” force in the US economy, the truth is that the Fed is and has been the main engine of inflation for more than a century. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/central-banking-scourge-civilization https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/austrian-economics-gold-and-feds-confidence-game Mark Thornton explains why Austrian economics matters, and why gold, debt, the Fed, and the dollar all point back to the same problem: government money. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/austrian-economics-gold-and-feds-confidence-game https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Luc Lelièvre https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment https://mises.org/mises-wire/regulation-protecting-incumbents-and-suppressing-competition Politicians sell business regulation as benefiting consumers. In reality, as we saw from airline regulation, the system creates cartels that shut out consumers and benefit regulated businesses. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Hal Snarr https://mises.org/mises-wire/regulation-protecting-incumbents-and-suppressing-competition https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:44:02 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution https://mises.org/mises-wire/social-trust-superpower We are told ad nauseum that the capitalist system runs on greed. In reality, a successful economy depends mostly upon trust. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Jimmy Alfonso Licon https://mises.org/mises-wire/social-trust-superpower https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/patrick-newman-rise-corporatist-state Dr. Patrick Newman speaks to Bob about his new book, which reviews how big business built the regulatory state, the Fed, and cartels like the AMA, all justified in the name of the "public interest." Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/patrick-newman-rise-corporatist-state https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/what-happened-objective-ethics In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on Daron Acemoglu’s What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity and finds it lacking in economic sense. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/what-happened-objective-ethics https://mises.org/mises-wire/statist-peril-techno-asset-inflation From the sixteenth century to today, techno-asset inflation is found where monetary inflation and technological revolution interact to produce virulent asset inflation. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Brendan Brown https://mises.org/mises-wire/statist-peril-techno-asset-inflation https://mises.org/power-market/gall-preservationist-crowd-knows-no-visual-limits Cronyism and protecting the scenic views of the wealthy. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Patrick Barron https://mises.org/power-market/gall-preservationist-crowd-knows-no-visual-limits https://mises.org/mises-wire/telephone-and-brief-episode-imperfect-competition-1894-1906 A brief episode of competition in the early telephone industry demonstrates that, even when hampered, competitive pressure challenged the state-created telephone monopoly. Exploring this territory allows us to imagine the possibilities of what could have been in true a free market. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/telephone-and-brief-episode-imperfect-competition-1894-1906 https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/anti-flock-revolution On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about the growing populist backlash to Flock cameras and the AI-powered security state. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:50:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/anti-flock-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/jason-arday-and-dei-system-just-wont-die After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:05:01 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/jason-arday-and-dei-system-just-wont-die https://mises.org/mises-wire/fabianisms-quiet-revolution How socialists learned to work through institutions instead of throwing up barricades. It seems that America’s “democratic” socialists are repeating the same strategy. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Donald Lee Wine, Jr. https://mises.org/mises-wire/fabianisms-quiet-revolution https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution https://mises.org/power-market/effects-american-revolution-france-1780s "The American Revolution, the European right realized, was a vital milestone in the advance and development of the western revolutionary tradition." Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/power-market/effects-american-revolution-france-1780s