Podcast Episodes

By All Means, Elect Mamdani and Watch His Socialist Laboratory at Work

Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad p…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Trump Administration Is Lying Us Into Another War

Trump's team is citing the fentanyl crisis to justify its escalations near Venezuela. But virtually all illicit fentanyl is made and smuggled thousan…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

How Food Industry Lobbyists Keep the Food-Stamp Gravy Train Going

The food stamp program is a way for PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola company to legally rip off the taxpayers.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

A Brief History of the Enduring American Embargo against Cuba

For more than 60 years, the US government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

No, Tariffs Did Not Cause September's Budget Surplus

September’s fiscal surplus was not thanks to tariff revenue. In truth, it was thanks to Americans paying more in income tax. Tariffs were only 5.7 pe…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

How to Recognize Critical Race Theory

Despite the change in the White House, critical race theory is still with us, dominating the academic sectors and being ingrained in progressive cult…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil

No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians like Donald Trump did not c…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Myth of the “Robber Barons”: James Hill versus the Crony Competitors

As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his…

5 months ago

America Hurts Farmers and Discounts China's Soy Imports while Providing a Crutch for Argentina

Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. Thi…

5 months ago

The Myth of Planned Obsolescence

The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneur…

5 months ago