Podcast Episodes

What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like?

There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?

Original article: https://mis…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation

Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/popular-media-romant…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Economics and the Infantilization of Culture

The yearning for a state-controlled system is not born of compassion for others but rather of infantile selfishness.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/economics-and-infantilization-culture

Published on 2 months ago

The "Acid Rain" Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex

“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.

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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Going for Broke

Once upon a time, American firms built with the long term in view, and the government did not try to hinder them. Today, thanks to reckless federal government spending, we are living hand-to-mouth, a…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard's Views on Lincoln, Slavery, and Popular Sovereignty

“The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican Acts were monstrous.”

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

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Mises on Separating Morality and State

The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has focused attention on political violence. Ludwig von Mises, not surprisingly, understood that tying morality to politicized state helps create the climate …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own pri…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Individualism and the Violence of the Identitarian Left

Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining ev…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago