Podcast Episodes

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

In examining the Austrian Regression Theorem of Money, Joshua Mawhorter takes on the Chartalist/MMT claim that government gives money its value. The Chartalist/MMT advocates lack a necessary cause-an…

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

How did Europe move from a collection of impoverished city states and kingdoms to a prosperous state of affairs? Europeans learned the value of contracts, private property, and the limited power of t…

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Can the BRICS Nations Lead Us to a Better World?

There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS.

Origina…

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Scholars and Schemers: How the Left Ruined Higher Education

One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call to bring about socialism in the West by e…

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The Threats of AI Come from the State

Artificial Intelligence is advancing, but people often fear it for the wrong reasons. AI is not a threat in itself, but rather becomes a threat when the state uses it as one more tool to limit indivi…

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America’s War on Arab Christians

The recent attack by Israeli setters on the village of Taybeh in the West Bank has brought attention to the conflicts between Israel and the Christian population in Palestine. American Christians who…

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Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was.

Ori…

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Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

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

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

Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-mat…

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Anarcho-Capitalism: The Nine Most Important Objections

"Anarcho-Capitalism is good in theory, but it would never work in the real world." That is a common objection to A-C, but is it correct? What are the objections and how do we answer them. Stanisław W…

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