Podcast Episodes

Murray Rothbard and World War II Origins

Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/murray-rothbard-and-world-war-ii-origins

Published on 2 weeks ago

How Congress Should Reform the Fed

Episode 523

Alex Pollock joins the Human Action Podcast to explain his recent Congressional testimony on the Fed’s growing insolvency and mandate overreach. The Fed now admits to $243 billion in operating losses…

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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 policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of n…

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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 thousands of miles away. If war or regime change in Venez…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day 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/how-food-industry-lobbyists-keep-food-stamp-gravy…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Private Property: The Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty

Episode 17

James Bovard surveys attacks on property rights—from “open-fields” searches and no-knock raids to eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture—showing how each erodes privacy and freedom.

Sponsored by Je…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days 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 only thing that has collapsed, however, is the log…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days 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 percent of revenue.

Original article: https://mises.o…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days 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 culture. We need to better recognize what it is and ho…

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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 cause the crisis. Instead, as Lawrence Mead writes,…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago