https://mises.org/ en Wed, 29 Jul 26 11:00:00 -0500 https://mises.org/library/book/cronyism-rise-corporatist-state-1849-1929 The evolution of the US government into a powerful cartelizer of the economy required special interests persistently lobbying to reduce competitive market pressures. It required cronyism: government intervention that benefits special interests at the expense of public interest. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/library/book/cronyism-rise-corporatist-state-1849-1929 https://mises.org/mises-wire/skeptical-guide-ubi The Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a bad idea that just won't die. Time to throw it on the ash heap of bad policies. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Conner McEleney https://mises.org/mises-wire/skeptical-guide-ubi https://mises.org/mises-wire/illinois-takes-swipe-interchange-fees-and-misses While governments charge fees for just about everything, suddenly governments have decided that private fees are harmful. Illinois has been especially aggressive in trying to make certain transaction fees illegal, but the results are different than what politicians there anticipated. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Tyler Curtis https://mises.org/mises-wire/illinois-takes-swipe-interchange-fees-and-misses https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-free-banking-scotland Scotland's celebrated free banks were neither free nor superior. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:21:01 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-free-banking-scotland https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:47:02 CDT Carlos Dória https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along https://mises.org/power-market/aluminums-heavyweight Two US government interventions are impacting global aluminum’s supply, demand, and prices. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Stephen Anderson https://mises.org/power-market/aluminums-heavyweight https://mises.org/mises-wire/back-ussr-spending-two-weeks-real-socialist-country It is one thing to understand socialism on an abstract basis but quite another to spend an extended amount of time in a socialist country, this one being the former USSR. The failures of socialism become obvious when seen on the ground. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Patrick Barron https://mises.org/mises-wire/back-ussr-spending-two-weeks-real-socialist-country https://mises.org/notes-margin/japanese-population-drops-17th-year-row-down-below-120-million The number of Japanese residents fell by 916,744, or 0.76%, to 119,736,483, marking the 17th consecutive year of decline, and the sharpest drop on record. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/japanese-population-drops-17th-year-row-down-below-120-million https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/rothbard-vs-free-bankers Bob reviews Murray Rothbard's 1988 essay "The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland," his sharp response to Larry White's influential account of Scottish free banking. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/rothbard-vs-free-bankers https://mises.org/mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Carlos Dória https://mises.org/mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/dupes-war No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:37:11 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/dupes-war https://mises.org/power-market/supreme-court-plays-wizard-oz-fed Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Ethan Savka https://mises.org/power-market/supreme-court-plays-wizard-oz-fed https://mises.org/notes-margin/netanyahu-endorses-flavio-bolsonaro-next-president-brazil The Israeli president joins Milei in pushing a pro-Israel axis of states in the Americas. (With the US leading the way, of course.) Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/netanyahu-endorses-flavio-bolsonaro-next-president-brazil https://mises.org/mises-wire/dei-any-other-name-still-just-sinister Despite opposition from the Trump administration and the backlash against its implementation, DEI still has not disappeared from our body politic. It takes on other names, but not other forms. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/dei-any-other-name-still-just-sinister https://mises.org/notes-margin/keiko-fujimori-sworn-new-president-peru "Conservative leader Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president Tuesday after winning the June election by fewer than 50,000 votes." Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/keiko-fujimori-sworn-new-president-peru https://mises.org/notes-margin/newly-leaked-diaries-reveal-many-lies-tax-parasite-anthony-fauci Fauci hid key facts from Congress and the public in order to relentlessly promote himself. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/newly-leaked-diaries-reveal-many-lies-tax-parasite-anthony-fauci https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-v-applying-treatise-1956-1962 In 1962, despite professional and institutional obstacles, Man, Economy, and State was finally published. With it, Rothbard greatly advanced the Austrian tradition and firmly positioned himself as Mises’s heir. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:31:48 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-v-applying-treatise-1956-1962 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iv-rothbardian-theory-interventionism-1955-1956 With advances in the Austrian theory of the business cycle, Rothbard finally completed the monumental task of deducing the entire corpus of economic theory using the praxeological method. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:03:48 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iv-rothbardian-theory-interventionism-1955-1956 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iii-bohm-bawerkian-treatise-1953-1955 Murray Rothbard’s project drastically changed in mid-1953. Unable to rely on Mises’s sparse treatment of production theory, Rothbard adopted his old Marshallian approach, focusing on an individual firm that faced fixed prices and restricted investment decisions. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:16:40 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-iii-bohm-bawerkian-treatise-1953-1955 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-ii-misesian-textbook-1949-1953 Murray Rothbard’s economic perspective changed significantly in 1949 when he met Ludwig von Mises and read his magnum opus, Human Action. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:01:36 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-ii-misesian-textbook-1949-1953 https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-i-neoclassical-training-1945-1949 Murray Rothbard started his career with a foundational training in neoclassical economics. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:34:50 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/part-i-neoclassical-training-1945-1949 https://mises.org/mises-wire/dupes-war No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/mises-wire/dupes-war https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/introduction Murray N . Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist is written for everyone interested in Rothbard’s economic theory and Austrian economics in general. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:58:04 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/introduction https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:54:01 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/acknowledgements This book has been several years in the making. Originally we envisioned it as a collection of letters and unpublished monographs from the Rothbard Papers at the Mises Institute. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:23:02 CDT Joseph T. Salerno, Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/murray-n-rothbard-making-austrian-economist/acknowledgements https://mises.org/power-market/gov-desantis-signs-big-government-bill-attacking-floridas-gold-industry Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Jp Cortez https://mises.org/power-market/gov-desantis-signs-big-government-bill-attacking-floridas-gold-industry https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:43:57 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race https://mises.org/mises-wire/feds-policy-price-stability-helps-create-unstable-economy The Federal Reserve claims that its policies are aimed a keeping prices stable. However, these policies actually undermine the economy and make it unstable. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/feds-policy-price-stability-helps-create-unstable-economy https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-democratic-socialism-created-californias-housing-crisis The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to housing construction in California. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:01:46 CDT Chris Calton https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-democratic-socialism-created-californias-housing-crisis https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/domestic-agorism-eastern-europes-example-libertarianism-without-academic-guidance The up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the state, do not operate apart from state interference. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:41:57 CDT Mark Mikhalov https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/domestic-agorism-eastern-europes-example-libertarianism-without-academic-guidance https://mises.org/mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-much-inequality-there-depends-how-its-measured For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither inequality nor economics. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:31:02 CDT Conner McEleney https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-much-inequality-there-depends-how-its-measured https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/legacy-declaration We remember the Declaration's first paragraph and forget its last—the one where thirteen separate states declare themselves free and independent. Larsen Plyler on a legacy that got lost. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:45:00 CDT Larsen Plyler https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/legacy-declaration https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/why-luck-doesnt-explain-wealth-and-success-marketplace Egalitarians mock Adam Smith's invisible hand as free-market superstition, then explain every billionaire with an invisible hand of their own. Joshua Mawhorter on the luck argument for redistribution. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:15:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/why-luck-doesnt-explain-wealth-and-success-marketplace https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/rothbardian-revolution-against-neoliberalism Thatcher, Clinton, Obama, Trump—everyone gets called a neoliberal, which is why most free-market economists say the word means nothing. Tho Bishop argues it names something precise. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:30:00 CDT Tho Bishop https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/rothbardian-revolution-against-neoliberalism https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/you-cant-have-free-markets-and-empire "Free markets at home, empire abroad" isn't just incoherent—it's arithmetically impossible. Connor O'Keeffe on why you can't fund the warfare state without the income tax and the Fed. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/you-cant-have-free-markets-and-empire https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/gold-inflation-and-our-k-shaped-economy In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan sits down with Mark Thornton to talk through the economic trends fueling today's unrest. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:03 CDT Ryan McMaken, Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/gold-inflation-and-our-k-shaped-economy https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/causes-and-consequences-french-revolution The liberal phase of the French Revolution—the part an American would recognize—lasted about six months. Everything after was its opposite. Ryan McMaken on why liberalism keeps getting blamed for a Terror it didn't cause. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/causes-and-consequences-french-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/stocks-manure-gold-and-socialism-markets-and-bad-ideas Mark Thornton updates the Stocks versus Manure contest, then explains why gold’s correction may be temporary, and why democratic socialism attracts young voters with failed answers to real problems. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/stocks-manure-gold-and-socialism-markets-and-bad-ideas https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-not-run-country-putins-russia When Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, the nation had a potentially bright future. Today, bogged down in war and its economy approaching Third World status, the future doesn’t look very good. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Jeremy E. Powell https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-not-run-country-putins-russia https://mises.org/mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/making-austrian-economist Murray Rothbard wasn't born an Austrian economist. Patrick Newman on how a Columbia-trained mainstream PhD became Mises's heir—in the hundredth year since Rothbard's birth. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/making-austrian-economist https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/faculty-panel-policy-and-history The Policy and History faculty panel takes student questions on the state of the movement and the prospects for freedom. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton, Jonathan Newman, Tate Fegley, Per Bylund, Patrick Newman, Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/faculty-panel-policy-and-history https://mises.org/mises-wire/domestic-agorism-eastern-europes-example-libertarianism-without-academic-guidance The up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the state, do not operate apart from state interference. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Mark Mikhalov https://mises.org/mises-wire/domestic-agorism-eastern-europes-example-libertarianism-without-academic-guidance https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/faculty-panel-theory-and-method The Theory and Method faculty panel takes questions from Mises University students. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Lucas M. Engelhardt, David Gordon, Shawn Ritenour, Jeffrey M. Herbener, Joseph T. Salerno, Peter G. Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/faculty-panel-theory-and-method https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/what-do-austrians-think-equilibrium Build a model no real market could ever match, call it the ideal, then diagnose every real market as a failure for falling short. Jonathan Newman on the equilibrium trap Mises warned against. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/what-do-austrians-think-equilibrium https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/interventionism-and-inequality The US has 20 to 30 million government regulations. Big corporations have legal departments. Startups have you. Mark Thornton on who the "regulatory thicket" is really built to protect. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/interventionism-and-inequality https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/harry-jaffa-and-war-between-states What were Abraham Lincoln’s views on racial matters of the day? In today’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes a critical look at Harry Jaffa’s interpretations of Lincoln’s statements and finds them wanting. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/harry-jaffa-and-war-between-states https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/anti-slavery-advocates-disunion The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it. For them, decentralization and secession were potential solutions not problems in ending slavery. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:43:02 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/anti-slavery-advocates-disunion https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/economics-ai Strip away the mystique and ChatGPT is a next-word predictor with some randomness—the same trick as the spell-checker asking if you meant "dog." Peter Klein on the economics of AI, minus the hype. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT Peter G. Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/economics-ai https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/business-cycles-and-skyscrapers The Singer Building and the panic of 1907. The Empire State and the Depression. The Burj Khalifa and 2008. Lucas Engelhardt on why the world's tallest buildings keep opening at exactly the wrong moment. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Lucas M. Engelhardt https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/business-cycles-and-skyscrapers https://mises.org/mises-wire/anti-slavery-advocates-disunion The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it. For them, decentralization and secession were potential solutions not problems in ending slavery. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/anti-slavery-advocates-disunion https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/crisis-higher-education Tuition is up 1,200% since 1980. Enrollment is about to fall off a cliff. Peter Klein argues the real problem isn't any of the things people usually name. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Peter G. Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/crisis-higher-education https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-economics-business Successful entrepreneurs are all Austrians, Per Bylund says. They just never had the words for it. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-economics-business https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/dehomogenization-mises-and-hayek Tate Fegley uses Joseph Salerno's work to draw out the fundamental differences between Mises and Hayek arguing that treating the two as interchangeable obscures the distinctly Misesian paradigm. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Tate Fegley https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/dehomogenization-mises-and-hayek https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/cantillon-effect-and-k-shaped-economy Even in a world of gold, silver, and costly mining, whoever got the new money first still came out ahead. Jeffrey Degner on why hard money doesn't repeal the Cantillon effect, and why fiat makes it far worse. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Jeffery L. Degner https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/cantillon-effect-and-k-shaped-economy https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/precursors-austrian-school A book so dangerous it couldn't be printed: it passed hand to hand in manuscript for twenty-five years. Mark Thornton on the underground text that founded modern economics. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/precursors-austrian-school https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-norway-built-worlds-largest-fund-and-thriving-economy-boot Norway sits on large oil deposits, yet has managed to avoid the “resource curse” that has bedeviled so many nations that have abundant natural resources, but severely mismanage their economies. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:57:01 CDT Joakim Book https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-norway-built-worlds-largest-fund-and-thriving-economy-boot https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/modern-monetary-theory "Their red ink is your black ink." Jonathan Newman on what MMT leaves out; namely, how the government actually makes the payment. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/modern-monetary-theory https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-norway-built-worlds-largest-fund-and-thriving-economy-boot Norway sits on large oil deposits, yet has managed to avoid the “resource curse” that has bedeviled so many nations that have abundant natural resources, but severely mismanage their economies. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Joakim Book https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-norway-built-worlds-largest-fund-and-thriving-economy-boot https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/game-theory A game show finalist looked at a rigged final round and told his opponent, "I'm going to steal—and then split it with you." He didn't play the game. He changed it. Lucas Engelhardt on entrepreneurs and game theory. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT Lucas M. Engelhardt https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/game-theory https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-economists-you-may-not-know Two of the best American Austrians feuded over a book review, trained no successors, and their school quietly died out. Paul Cwik and Shawn Ritenour on the Austrians you may not know, and the ones we almost lost. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Paul F. Cwik, Shawn Ritenour https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-economists-you-may-not-know https://mises.org/mises-wire/help-us-expand-mises-academy The Mises Academy offers online self-directed courses on real history and real economics, taught by our outstanding scholars and all grounded in the tradition of Mises and Rothbard. Help us expand this radical platform. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:50:44 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/mises-wire/help-us-expand-mises-academy https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/yes-democratic-socialists-want-soviet-style-control-capital While the democratic socialists are claiming to just want a society like they have in Denmark, their real aims are the seizure of all or most private property and especially private capital. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:17:02 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/yes-democratic-socialists-want-soviet-style-control-capital https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-democratic-socialists-want-soviet-style-control-capital While the democratic socialists are claiming to just want a society like they have in Denmark, their real aims are the seizure of all or most private property and especially private capital. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-democratic-socialists-want-soviet-style-control-capital https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/cronyism-origins-federal-reserve The Fed was sold as a check on Wall Street's power. Wall Street's share of the nation's bank reserves went up after it passed, not down. Patrick Newman on the Federal Reserve as cronyism. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/cronyism-origins-federal-reserve https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/inflation-and-family Sociologists blame job instability. Legal scholars blame deregulation. Jeffrey Degner noticed all the clues point back to the same address: the Federal Reserve. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Jeffery L. Degner https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/inflation-and-family https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/public-choice-austrian-perspective We assume people are self-interested in the market and selfless in government. Tate Fegley on why dropping that double standard explains almost everything about how the state actually behaves. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Tate Fegley https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/public-choice-austrian-perspective https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/environmental-conservation Washington locked up timberland to stop deforestation, while taxing Canadian lumber, which meant felling more American trees. Timothy Terrell on conservation policy, and following the money. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/environmental-conservation https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-economic-progress Everyone wants the one key to economic growth—capital, or technology, or trade. Shawn Ritenour argues there is no single key, and that's exactly what the models keep missing. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Shawn Ritenour https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-economic-progress https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/race-and-discrimination Marx said your logic depends on your class. The Nazis said it depends on your race. Mises had a name for that idea, and an answer to it. Wanjiru Njoya applies it to how we argue about race today. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/race-and-discrimination https://mises.org/mises-wire/blame-cronyism-our-economic-woes-not-free-markets Crony capitalism—where politics help decide success and failure in the markets—is a huge problem in our society. The solution is laissez-faire capitalism in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Nolan Denaro https://mises.org/mises-wire/blame-cronyism-our-economic-woes-not-free-markets https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/repugnant-markets A Nobel laureate says some markets are too repugnant to allow and need clever redesign instead. Sandy Klein has a simpler answer: repugnance is just a preference, and the price system already knows what to do with it. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT Sandra Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/repugnant-markets https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/will-you-ever-be-able-buy-house No, it isn't Blackstone, and the boomers didn't take it all. Timothy Terrell separates the housing myths from the real reasons you can't afford a house. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/will-you-ever-be-able-buy-house https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:01:01 CDT Heather Carson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Heather Carson https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-know-how-happens-right https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/tariffs-vs-free-trade A trade deficit sounds like losing—buying more than you sell. Lucas Engelhardt on why that 200-year-old intuition is exactly backwards, and what a deficit actually means. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Lucas M. Engelhardt https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/tariffs-vs-free-trade https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/price-controls Rent control's cruelest irony: it makes discrimination cheaper. Joseph Salerno on the long-run effects of price caps that almost no one sees coming. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/price-controls https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/competition-and-monopoly The textbook model of "perfect competition" bans advertising, price cuts, and better products—the very things we mean by competing. Tate Fegley on why the mainstream picture of monopoly is upside down. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Tate Fegley https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/competition-and-monopoly https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-business-cycle The recession isn't the disease, it's the cure. Patrick Newman on why the Austrians blame the boom, not the bust, and trace it all to one cause. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Patrick Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-theory-business-cycle https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:17:57 CDT Joseph Russo https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union https://mises.org/mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Joseph Russo https://mises.org/mises-wire/spoiled-sons-liberty-surveillance-leviathan-americas-six-republics-and-myth-eternal-union https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-capital-theory When savers cut back and consumption falls, most economists cry "recession!" Paul Cwik on why an Austrian sees the opposite: an economy quietly retooling for future growth. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Paul F. Cwik https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/austrian-capital-theory https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border While many immigrants bring entrepreneurial skills, they often settle in US cities governed by leftists who are hostile to private enterprise. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:54:06 CDT Angelo Monaco https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a different path. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:07:02 CDT Kevin Duffy https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/calculation-and-socialism The socialist calculation problem isn't a museum piece from 1920s Moscow. It's the Bureau of Land Management, this year. Timothy Terrell on why bureaucrats are still groping in the dark. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/calculation-and-socialism https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr. Wanjiru Njoya looks into the competing ideological claims that go with analyzing the American Revolution. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:47:01 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/theory-interest Interest isn't the price of borrowing money or the reward for productive capital. It's the price we put on now over later. Jeffrey Herbener on time preference and the theory of interest. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Jeffrey M. Herbener https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/theory-interest https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion The growing power of the centralized state loomed as the central problem for liberalism in the early nineteenth century, and the works of these three writers are a response to it. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:15:02 CDT Ralph Raico https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion https://mises.org/power-market/colonel-doug-macgregor-sleepwalking-world-war-iii Colonel Douglas Macgregor holds up a mirror to the West and uses his deep historical knowledge and personal experience of previous conflicts to clearly demonstrate the parallels, the motivations and the dynamics that are still in place and dictate policy to this day. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Claudio Grass https://mises.org/power-market/colonel-doug-macgregor-sleepwalking-world-war-iii https://mises.org/mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr. Wanjiru Njoya looks into the competing ideological claims that go with analyzing the American Revolution. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/banking Your bank says the money in your checking account is yours, available in full, any time. Its own balance sheet says it's holding a fraction of it. Jonathan Newman on what banks actually do with your deposits. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/banking https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/money Try paying for a roof in moonwalk lessons. That's the problem money solves. Sandy Klein on why barter fails and how gold became money. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT Sandra Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/money https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/entrepreneurship Take the entrepreneur out of the picture, Mises said, and the entire market economy grinds to a halt. Peter Klein on why bearing uncertainty is the most fundamental act in economics. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Peter G. Klein https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/entrepreneurship https://mises.org/mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a different path. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Kevin Duffy https://mises.org/mises-wire/quiet-rise-chinese-innovation https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/division-labor-and-social-order Shawn Ritenour shows how the division of labor turns our inequalities into the glue of society, and why the only way to profit in a market is to serve someone else first. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Shawn Ritenour https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/division-labor-and-social-order https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-technology-shocks-cause-boom-bust-cycles For a while, some economists tried to claim that business cycles are the result of significant changes in technology. The Austrians have a better explanation. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-technology-shocks-cause-boom-bust-cycles https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/subjective-value-and-market-prices Jeffrey Herbener builds Austrian price theory from the ground up. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Jeffrey M. Herbener https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/subjective-value-and-market-prices https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/praxeology No graphs, no data, no experiments—just logic. David Gordon on how Austrian economists reason from a single starting point: humans act. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/praxeology https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/birth-austrian-school Why is water nearly free while diamonds cost millions, when you'd die in three days without one and never miss the other? In 1871, Carl Menger finally solved it. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 CDT Joseph T. Salerno https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/birth-austrian-school