https://mises.org/ en Thu, 27 Aug 26 11:00:00 -0500 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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 https://mises.org/power-market/david-betz-mass-migration-civil-war Betz highlights how rapid demographic shifts and elite-driven mass migration have created an unresolvable three-way tension between native populations, “post-national” ruling elites, and recent arrivals. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:00:00 CDT Claudio Grass https://mises.org/power-market/david-betz-mass-migration-civil-war https://mises.org/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 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/jason-arday-and-dei-system-just-wont-die https://mises.org/notes-margin/least-5000-migrants-are-still-living-ceuta-taxpayer-expense "An abandoned warehouse complex overlooking the Moroccan border in this tiny Spanish territory has become a squalid village, with hundreds of migrants..." Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/least-5000-migrants-are-still-living-ceuta-taxpayer-expense https://mises.org/notes-margin/some-shattering-illusions-our-declining-empire "There is one positive development: The American people, especially the younger generation, are beginning to recognize the corruption at the top of our country..." Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:10:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/some-shattering-illusions-our-declining-empire https://mises.org/notes-margin/condo-market-plummets-denver The bottom is falling out of the Denver condo market, with sales falling to 2008 levels. Condo trends predicted single-fam trends in 2008, and may indicate the current trend also. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/condo-market-plummets-denver https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/flock-camera-backlash-very-good-sign The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:58:45 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/flock-camera-backlash-very-good-sign https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/silver-squeeze-mark-thornton-wall-street-bullion Mises Institute Senior Fellow Mark Thornton joins Wall Street Bullion to discuss the outlook for gold and silver, the consequences of decades of monetary inflation, and the growing risks created by Federal Reserve policy and government debt. Thornton also explains why younger Americans are increasingly feeling the effects of the fiat-money system—and what a more resilient, bottom-up approach to protecting wealth might look like in the years ahead. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/silver-squeeze-mark-thornton-wall-street-bullion https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-political-movement-without-serious-defenders Modern monetary theory is an idea and an inchoate theory that lacks serious defenders. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-political-movement-without-serious-defenders https://mises.org/mises-wire/flock-camera-backlash-very-good-sign The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/flock-camera-backlash-very-good-sign https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-government-grocery-discount Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:49:01 CDT Tom Wilson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-government-grocery-discount https://mises.org/mises-wire/jamaicas-reparations-campaign-waste-good-government The island nation of Jamaica has the potential to be an economic powerhouse, but, instead, the government wishes to pursue a self-defeating policy of demanding “reparations” from Great Britain and other western nations. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/mises-wire/jamaicas-reparations-campaign-waste-good-government https://mises.org/mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-mamdanis-grocery-discount Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Tom Wilson https://mises.org/mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-mamdanis-grocery-discount https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:35:02 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy https://mises.org/notes-margin/three-things-we-can-do-now-us-empire-ends "The state has proven incapable of leading us wisely, and our growing recognition of that cold fact is amazingly liberating." Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Karen Kwiatkowski https://mises.org/notes-margin/three-things-we-can-do-now-us-empire-ends https://mises.org/mises-wire/equality-law-not-privilege-group-membership Ludwig von Mises favored liberalism, which was based upon the equality of each person before the law. Today, elites are seeking a regime in which the law is written and enforced to favor one group over another. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/equality-law-not-privilege-group-membership https://mises.org/power-market/support-troops-bring-them-home Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Ron Paul https://mises.org/power-market/support-troops-bring-them-home https://mises.org/notes-margin/foreign-holdings-us-treasuries-fall-june-led-japan-uk-china-data-shows Japan is largest holder, followed by the UK. China's stash dropped 4% in June. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/foreign-holdings-us-treasuries-fall-june-led-japan-uk-china-data-shows https://mises.org/notes-margin/spy-state-oligarch-peter-thiel-buys-stake-argentinas-largest-oil-producer Thiel's contacts with Milei's inner circle have broadened since his arrival in Argentina in April, with sit-downs with key administration staff. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/spy-state-oligarch-peter-thiel-buys-stake-argentinas-largest-oil-producer https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/imaginary-world-fed-independence The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:08:02 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/imaginary-world-fed-independence https://mises.org/mises-wire/keynes-he-became-keynesian Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/keynes-he-became-keynesian https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-fed-should-not-accommodate-increases-demand-money Most economists believe that a growing economy needs a growing supply of money. While sounding like a common-sense idea, it turns out to be dreadfully wrong. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-fed-should-not-accommodate-increases-demand-money https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico What should people think about the renewed interest in precious metals? Join Ryan McMaken, Jp Cortez, Kevin Duffy, and Mark Thornton for a discussion you won't find in traditional financial media. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:00:12 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/austrian-investors-golden-opportunity Kevin Duffy reads gold's bull market through an Austrian investor's lens — America's "imperial bubble" and the gold demand driving it from a rising East. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:02:26 CDT Kevin Duffy https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/austrian-investors-golden-opportunity https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/mises-circle-new-mexico-closing-panel-and-qa Mark Thornton, Ryan McMaken, Kevin Duffy, and JP Cortez close out the 2026 New Mexico Mises Circle by taking audience questions on gold, silver, Bitcoin, investing in China, the fate of the dollar, and the ballooning national debt. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:02:26 CDT Mark Thornton, Ryan McMaken, Kevin Duffy, Jp Cortez https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/mises-circle-new-mexico-closing-panel-and-qa https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/how-state-seized-control-money Ryan McMaken shows how seizing control of money was central to building the modern state — a centuries-long project that culminated in World War I destroying the gold standard. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:02:26 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/how-state-seized-control-money https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/economic-theory-connects-gold-money Mark Thornton uses Austrian theory to explain where money came from — Menger's bottom-up origin of money — and why gold makes for sound money and smaller government. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:02:26 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/economic-theory-connects-gold-money https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/stopping-fiat-theft-restoring-sound-money-state-and-federal-levels JP Cortez argues fiat money is a hidden theft, and that the fix is a bottom-up, state-level push to remove the taxes and rules that stop Americans from freely choosing gold and silver. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:02:26 CDT Jp Cortez https://mises.org/podcasts/gold-and-silver-prospecting-liberty-mises-circle-new-mexico/stopping-fiat-theft-restoring-sound-money-state-and-federal-levels https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/government-intervention-and-economic-inequality Mark Thornton explains how government intervention creates inequality, privileging protected industries and politically connected insiders while pushing costs onto everyone else. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/government-intervention-and-economic-inequality https://mises.org/mises-wire/pretexts-and-motives-behind-government-regulation Murray Rothbard wrote many years ago that government regulation, ostensibly created to protect consumers, actually protects incumbent producers from competition. Decades later, nothing has changed. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Hal Snarr https://mises.org/mises-wire/pretexts-and-motives-behind-government-regulation https://mises.org/mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Lipton Matthews https://mises.org/mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-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. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:01:46 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/return-economic-gaslighting https://mises.org/mises-wire/liberalization-holidays-and-ownership-time Everyone loves to have time off, but what happens when governments force people not to work against their will? Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Farzin Rahimi Zonouz https://mises.org/mises-wire/liberalization-holidays-and-ownership-time https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/has-trump-already-lost-war-iran Months ago, the administration said the war's goals were regime change and the removal of all uranium from Iran. We never hear about that anymore because the war has failed to produce either goal. Instead, Trump calls for opening the Strait of Hormuz, which had been open before the war. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:00:03 CDT Ryan McMaken, Zachary Yost https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/has-trump-already-lost-war-iran https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/illegal-constitutional-amendment The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution has been the basis of numerous Supreme Court decisions, yet there is a compelling case for its never having been legally ratified. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines those claims. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/illegal-constitutional-amendment https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/feds-confidence-game-gold-debt-and-what-comes-next Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute joins VRIC Media to discuss what may really be driving Federal Reserve policy—and why the Fed’s priorities may have far more to do with government debt, financial markets, and confidence in the dollar than simply controlling inflation. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/feds-confidence-game-gold-debt-and-what-comes-next https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/scott-bessent-new-prince-yen Ryan, Tho, and Dr. Jonathan Newman discuss recent economics headlines, including interventions to prop up the yen, a bad jobs report, and troubling signs in bond markets. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/scott-bessent-new-prince-yen https://mises.org/mises-wire/ahoy-ahoy-telephone-entrepreneurship-and-cronyism Our history books tell us about how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. They don’t tell us that his company then successfully got the government to grant it monopoly powers, thus harming consumers and stifling technological innovation for nearly a century. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/ahoy-ahoy-telephone-entrepreneurship-and-cronyism https://mises.org/mises-wire/imaginary-world-fed-independence The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:00:00 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/mises-wire/imaginary-world-fed-independence https://mises.org/mises-wire/prussians-who-built-prussia The stereotype of the Prussian as the militaristic, state-loving creature probably needs to be rethought. The history of Prussia and its people is more complicated than contemporary historians wish to admit. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Jeremy E. Powell https://mises.org/mises-wire/prussians-who-built-prussia https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/if-markets-are-booming-why-are-you-struggling Mises Institute’s Mark Thornton joins Lynette Zang to break down why financial markets can boom while everyday Americans continue to struggle. They discuss the AI-driven market surge, rising debt, distorted markets, declining purchasing power, and why the difference between owning real money and relying on a financial system built on debt matters now more than ever. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/if-markets-are-booming-why-are-you-struggling https://mises.org/mises-wire/alice-wonderland-world-wnba Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/alice-wonderland-world-wnba https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-first-world-war-destroyed-gold-standard The ordinary people of Europe, so devastated by the shells of the First World War, would again be victimized by the new inflationary national currencies that would destroy savings and investment across the European middle class. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-first-world-war-destroyed-gold-standard https://mises.org/mises-wire/six-nooses-how-interventionism-strangling-familys-will-reproduce As the birthrate falls in the US and other industrialized countries, we find that government intervention into the economy and family life is a big reason this is happening. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:00 CDT Felix Yang https://mises.org/mises-wire/six-nooses-how-interventionism-strangling-familys-will-reproduce 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