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Audio recordings of Mises Wire articles, offering contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.

Episode Date
Biden Perpetuates Washington’s Idiotic Steel Trade Policies
May 02, 2024
Butler, Butt Out!
May 01, 2024
California’s Crony Capitalist Minimum Wage Law
Apr 23, 2024
Iran's Attack on Israel Provides an Opportunity to De-escalate
Apr 23, 2024
Navigating the Slippery Slope: How Hoover’s Interventions Paved the Way for the Great Depression
Apr 16, 2024
Looking Back at the Crossroads: Liberty or Socialism
Apr 16, 2024
Bureaucracy and Grove City College: How One College Resisted the Bureaucratization of Higher Education
Apr 16, 2024
A Tale of Two Bureaucracies
Apr 16, 2024
CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing
Apr 09, 2024
Personal Medical Bankruptcy: Made in DC
Apr 09, 2024
Who Really Works Against the Public?
Apr 09, 2024
Police Dogs Have Abolished Constitutional Due Process
Apr 09, 2024
How State Intervention Fueled Haiti's Descent into Chaos
Apr 09, 2024
California’s Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based on Ratepayers' Income
Apr 09, 2024
Two Cheers for Vivek Ramaswamy for His Commentary on the Fed
Apr 09, 2024
Failing to Make the Case for Race-Based Reparations
Apr 09, 2024
Connecticut’s Housing Shortage Is Rooted in Government Policies
Apr 03, 2024
Marx, Class Conflict, and the Ideological Fallacy
Apr 03, 2024
The Tyranny of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Mar 27, 2024
Who Will Take Care of the Roads? Why, The Coercive, Substandard, and Monopolistic Government Department, That’s Who
Mar 27, 2024
Be on the Lookout for These Lies in Biden’s State of the Union Address
Mar 21, 2024
No, There Is Not a Perfect Open Border System between the States
Mar 21, 2024
The Great Depression and Great Depression II: Similarities, Differences
Mar 21, 2024
Understanding the AI Revolution
Mar 21, 2024
Free Markets and the Antidiscrimination Principle
Mar 21, 2024
The Economics of the AI Revolution
Mar 21, 2024
Separating Information from Disinformation: Threats from the AI Revolution
Mar 21, 2024
The Folly of Rent Control in New York City (Again)
Mar 21, 2024
The Myth of National Defense Spending
Mar 14, 2024
How the US Regime Subsidizes Immigration—both Legal and Illegal
Mar 14, 2024
A Principled View of Nations and Nationalism
Mar 14, 2024
Why the Bubble Economy Isn't the Real Economy
Mar 14, 2024
Getting the Great Depression (Almost) Right -- And Totally Wrong
Mar 14, 2024
Covid Showed Us Who Really Rules America
Mar 14, 2024
Krugman: Low Unemployment Causes Inflation, Not Monetary Expansion
Mar 14, 2024
The Death of Easy Money Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Mar 08, 2024
Who Hijacked Our Free Will?
Mar 08, 2024
How State-Funding of Activist Groups Makes Britain Less Safe
Mar 08, 2024
The Supreme Court to Decide if New York Regulators Can Arbitrarily Target the NRA
Mar 08, 2024
Another Reason Why Individual Freedom Is So Much Better than Central Planning
Mar 08, 2024
Misunderstanding Both Lincoln and Basic Economics
Mar 08, 2024
Biblical Critical Theory Is Not Biblical. It’s Watered-Down Marxism
Mar 08, 2024
US States Have a Long History of Defaulting
Mar 08, 2024
The Right Is Wrong to Pursue Term Limits
Mar 03, 2024
Hubris Runs Rampant at the Fed
Mar 03, 2024
The War of 1812 and the Panic of 1819: The Unholy Alliance between Government and Banking
Mar 03, 2024
No, "Science" Has Not Proven Mises Wrong on Socialism
Mar 03, 2024
The Awesome Verbal Punching Power of Thomas Paine
Mar 03, 2024
The Outrageous Persecution of Julian Assange
Mar 03, 2024
To the European Union: Don't Tread on Us
Mar 03, 2024
After Trump, Then What?
Feb 26, 2024
The Double-Edged Sword of School Choice
Feb 26, 2024
What Can We Learn from the Latest Pentagon Audit? Both Plenty and Not Much
Feb 26, 2024
Is Taiwan a De Facto Sovereign Nation or a Province of the PRC?
Feb 26, 2024
Javier Milei Understands the Road to Serfdom
Feb 26, 2024
The "New" South Africa Is Now a Newly-Failed State: Don't Look for Things to Improve
Feb 26, 2024
Does the Balance of Payments Determine Exchange Rates?
Feb 26, 2024
How Governor Whitmer Doomed Detroit Autoworkers
Feb 26, 2024
How Carl Menger and the Austrians Helped to Steer Economic Theory in the Right Direction
Feb 20, 2024
Social Insecurity: It’s Not Wrong to be Concerned about Facts
Feb 20, 2024
Forget Being the World's Policeman; the Federal Government Can't Even Keep DC Safe
Feb 20, 2024
Understanding the Trump Phenomenon: It's Not What the Elites Think
Feb 18, 2024
Legacies of Injustice and Racial Inequality
Feb 18, 2024
Fiscal Rules Do Not Undermine Investment, But Government Profligacy Does
Feb 18, 2024
An Open Letter to Walter E. Block
Feb 18, 2024
Are We Really All in This Together?
Feb 14, 2024
Climate Deniers Deny Socialism. That's Why the Regime Hates Them.
Feb 14, 2024
Washington’s Planned Theft of Credit Card Benefits
Feb 14, 2024
A Short History of the Right to Self-Determination
Feb 14, 2024
Biden's Middle East Policy Puts Americans at Risk
Feb 10, 2024
Biden and Forgotten Federal Financial Tyranny
Feb 10, 2024
Are Free Markets More Dangerous than Regulated Markets?
Feb 10, 2024
If One Wishes to Discredit Capitalism, One Should at Least Understand How It Works
Feb 10, 2024
Government Banks Would Be a Dangerous Tool for Progressive Ideologues
Feb 07, 2024
Social Media Should Not Be Blamed for the Consequences of Democracy
Feb 07, 2024
A Field Guide to Dubious Fact-Checking
Feb 07, 2024
Jacobin Capitalism?
Feb 05, 2024
Rising Interest Rates and the "Great Reset" Bubble
Feb 05, 2024
Bye Bye Willie: The Political Rent-Seeker
Feb 05, 2024
Bastiat versus MMT
Feb 05, 2024
The War on Producers and Entrepreneurs Is Based on False Notions of Profits
Jan 30, 2024
Reflections on the Libertarian Role in Society
Jan 30, 2024
Does Government Spending and Money Expansion Create New Wealth or Destroy It?
Jan 30, 2024
The December Jobs Report Is Mostly Bad News
Jan 28, 2024
Can Classical Economics Explain the Approaching Fiscal Disaster?
Jan 28, 2024
The Decisive Driving Force to Victory for Javier Milei
Jan 28, 2024
The Government Is Making the Economy Appear Better than It Is
Jan 28, 2024
Jamaica Still Struggles Economically, But There Is Hope for the Future
Jan 24, 2024
Why Society Doesn't Need the State
Jan 24, 2024
Why Open Borders Don't Work for Small Countries
Jan 24, 2024
Yemen: The Forgotten Neoconservative-Supported War in the Middle East
Jan 21, 2024
The Establishment Is Unmasking Itself
Jan 21, 2024
Can an Easy Money Policy Increase Employment of "Idle Resources"?
Jan 21, 2024
The Anti-Semitism Controversy on College Campuses Is the Direct Result of Identity Politics
Jan 18, 2024
Resurrecting the Failed Policy of Rent Control
Jan 18, 2024
Why Argentina Needs Free Cities
Jan 18, 2024
History versus Economics: Explaining the Causes of the Great Depression
Jan 18, 2024
Privatizing Roads Solves the Problem of Road Closures
Jan 14, 2024
The Escalating Tensions in the Red Sea Are a Bad Omen
Jan 14, 2024
Reflections on the Rothbard Graduate Seminar
Jan 14, 2024
Modern Portfolio Theory Is Mistaken: Diversification Is Not Investment
Jan 12, 2024
The Problems with Post-Trump Populism
Jan 12, 2024
When Medical Authorities Went Totalitarian: Understanding Covid Policies and Protocols
Jan 12, 2024
Government Prohibitions on Raw Milk Are Ignorant and Dangerous
Jan 09, 2024
Authorities in Jamaica Endorse Cancel Culture
Jan 09, 2024
The Economic Wisdom of Antony C. Sutton's The War on Gold
Jan 09, 2024
A Free and Open Internet Is a Threat to the Establishment
Jan 09, 2024
DC's Debt Trap
Jan 06, 2024
Biden's "AI Bill of Rights" May Just Be Another Censorship Plan
Jan 06, 2024
Markets versus State Healthcare Systems: Some Points of Contention
Jan 06, 2024
Do Destroyed Monuments Represent a Past Not Worth Defending?
Jan 06, 2024
Truth Is the Biggest Threat to Democracy in DC
Jan 04, 2024
Zoning Laws: Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
Jan 04, 2024
The Bill of Rights: The Only Good Part of the Constitution
Jan 04, 2024
What an Old Coin Collection Tells Us about Money from the Past
Jan 03, 2024
Federal Student Loans Drive Up College Tuition Levels
Dec 29, 2023
America's Corn Crop Comes from "Corny" Subsidies
Dec 29, 2023
Let them Merge: Foreign Acquisition of US Steel
Dec 29, 2023
Will Powell's Pivot Bail Out Biden?
Dec 26, 2023
The Immorality of COP28
Dec 26, 2023
Political Authorities and Covid: Creating Crises in the Name of Public Health
Dec 26, 2023
COP28: Climate Catastrophism Wins as the World Loses
Dec 26, 2023
Can a Libertarian Find Hope in Prison? Maybe
Dec 23, 2023
Africa Doesn't Need More Government Aid; It Needs Free Markets
Dec 23, 2023
Unraveling the Roots of the German Mark's Collapse
Dec 23, 2023
The Immorality of Protectionism
Dec 22, 2023
President Biden Is Wrong. Military Spending Does Not Produce Wealth
Dec 22, 2023
The Anatomy of the Statist
Dec 22, 2023
Henry Kissinger: War Criminal and Enemy of Mankind
Dec 22, 2023
The Fed-Enabled Apartment Bubble Is Unraveling
Dec 21, 2023
The First Enemies of Free Markets Were Conservatives, Not Socialists
Dec 21, 2023
The Path to True Freedom is Systematic Privatization
Dec 20, 2023
Friedman versus Rothbard
Dec 20, 2023
Understanding Anti-Capitalist Fallacies
Dec 19, 2023
Biden Is Providing an Opportunity for a New "Outreach to the Deplorables"
Dec 19, 2023
What Would Mises Think? Austria Is Applying (Some) Austrian Economics
Dec 17, 2023
How Fossil Fuel Revolutionized Our Kitchens and Our Food
Dec 16, 2023
It’s Time to Bust the Myth of Fed Omnipotence
Dec 16, 2023
Student Loans: The Continuing Crisis That Is Getting Worse
Dec 15, 2023
After Ukraine, Realpolitik Will Be the New Interventionist Status Quo
Dec 15, 2023
As the US Treasury Runs Out of Creditors, Its Options Dwindle
Dec 14, 2023
Inflationary Expectations Do Not Cause Inflation
Dec 14, 2023
Remembering the Great Henry Hazlitt on His Birthday
Dec 13, 2023
Should We Embrace the Stateless Roman Political Thought?
Dec 13, 2023
Bourne Again
Dec 12, 2023
Overcoming Chinese Communist GDP Myths
Dec 12, 2023
Today Is the Best Day of the Year to Rob a Bank
Dec 11, 2023
Napoleon: Europe's First Egalitarian Despot
Dec 11, 2023
The United States Needs Its Own Javier Milei
Dec 10, 2023
Are Businesses Entitled to a Fair Profit?
Dec 09, 2023
What Would Happen If the US Stopped Supporting Ukraine?
Dec 09, 2023
Millions and Billions and Trillions—Oh My!
Dec 08, 2023
Can Government Regulate Artificial Super Intelligence?
Dec 08, 2023
Libertarianism and the Importance of Understanding Causality
Dec 07, 2023
Can Econometric Models Provide a Laboratory Setting for Economic Analysis?
Dec 07, 2023
America the Obese: How Taxpayers Are Forced to Ruin Their Health
Dec 06, 2023
Preserving the Statist Quo: Creating a Generation of Welfare-ing, Libertine Narcissists
Dec 06, 2023
The Legacy of Legacy Admissions Is Not What the Critics Claim
Dec 05, 2023
Progressive Interventionism Is Ruining American Healthcare
Dec 05, 2023
The Taxman Cometh
Dec 04, 2023
Cryptocurrency: Integrity Destroyer or Policy Scapegoat?
Dec 04, 2023
The TSA Is Still Crazy after All These Years
Dec 03, 2023
The More Complex the Society, The Less Government Control We Need
Dec 02, 2023
The Worse-than-Medieval Economics of Climate Technocrats
Dec 02, 2023
The Inevitable Bust: Why Economic Booms Contain the Seeds of Their Own Destruction
Dec 01, 2023
Is ExxonMobil's Acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources a "Threat to Democracy"?
Dec 01, 2023
From the Invisible Hand to the Invisible Sleight-of-Hand
Nov 30, 2023
Ten Years Ago, I Discovered the Mises Institute. These Are the Things I Wish I Had Done Differently
Nov 30, 2023
Statist Ideology and War: Israel versus Hamas
Nov 29, 2023
Time Preference Is the Key Driver of Interest Rates
Nov 29, 2023
October's Sobering Jobs Report Adds to Mounting Bad Economic News
Nov 28, 2023
There's No Easy Way Out of This Debt Spiral
Nov 28, 2023
The Federal Reserve Is Running Losses. Does This Cost Anyone Anything?
Nov 27, 2023
The "Climate Emergency": Fueled by Twenty-First-Century Marxism
Nov 27, 2023
Israel Isn't the Brilliant Friend of Freedom the Beltway Claims It to Be
Nov 26, 2023
Is Migration a Tool of the Consumptive Class?
Nov 25, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon Is about Government Failure
Nov 25, 2023
Contra CATO: COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Not a Free Market Victory
Nov 23, 2023
The Interest Rate Shock Will Blow Up the Government’s Ponzi Game
Nov 23, 2023
Liberty: Stifled by the Stockholm Syndrome
Nov 22, 2023
Hostage Extraction Needs to be Privatized
Nov 22, 2023
Blaming the Free Market (Even Where It Doesn't Exist)
Nov 21, 2023
You're Paying for the Israel War. You'll Also Pay for the Refugees.
Nov 21, 2023
Affective Polarization Is Making Us Dumber
Nov 20, 2023
American History Is a Preview of the Israel-Palestine End Game
Nov 20, 2023
Coauthor of War College Journal Article Tries to Backtrack on Call for "Partial Conscription"
Nov 19, 2023
Statism Is the Cause of the Israel-Hamas War
Nov 18, 2023
How German Exports Lost the Race with China
Nov 17, 2023
China's Inefficient and Unsustainable Central Planning
Nov 17, 2023
Turkey Is Sustaining Major Inflation. Something Has to Give
Nov 16, 2023
The Specter of Hyperinflation Looms over the Economy
Nov 16, 2023
Kendi's Critical Race Theory Is a Failed Marxist Doctrine
Nov 15, 2023
Canadian Digital Protectionism Gravely Threatens Free Speech
Nov 15, 2023
Mises on the History of Warfare
Nov 14, 2023
Pushing the False Narrative of U.S. Isolationism
Nov 14, 2023
Federal Flood Insurance Drains Taxpayers
Nov 13, 2023
Battling Beasts and Bureaucrats: Naomi Wolf and the American Medical-Government Police State
Nov 13, 2023
Reason versus Emotion in Economics: A Praxeological Response
Nov 12, 2023
Cut through the Media Noise, and Remember the Economic Priorities
Nov 11, 2023
No Monetary or Political Bailouts for Belt-and-Road Initiative Debtors
Nov 11, 2023
The Dangers of a "Cashless" Economy
Nov 10, 2023
The Dollar See-Saws between Two Views on Fiscal Explosion
Nov 10, 2023
The Fate or Wealth of Nations: AI, Robotics and Automation
Nov 09, 2023
If the Fed Goes, The State Will Soon Follow
Nov 09, 2023
Is a Welfare State Consistent with Libertarianism?
Nov 08, 2023
Can the American Government Wage a Just War?
Nov 08, 2023
Fighting the Surveillance State Begins with the Individual
Nov 07, 2023
What is Software Quality? An Austrian Approach
Nov 07, 2023
Rothbard, Milei and the New Right in Argentina
Nov 06, 2023
The Parasitic Rich Men North of Richmond
Nov 06, 2023
Can Electricity Providers Promise 100 Percent Green Energy? Probably Not.
Nov 05, 2023
Thinking outside the State
Nov 04, 2023
Destroying Liberty Through State Protection: The First Amendment
Nov 04, 2023
Don't Fall for Biden's Latest Talking Point
Nov 03, 2023
Making Money While Making Sense of Chaos: Understanding the World of the Traders
Nov 03, 2023
The Spirit of the Establishment Will Thrive under a "Populist Opposition" Government
Nov 02, 2023
Back to the Future Morphs into Dystopia
Nov 02, 2023
Thanks to the Combination of the Fed and IP, Snow White 2024 Is a Terrible Movie
Nov 01, 2023
The Objective Science of Subjective Value
Nov 01, 2023
The Inherent Evils of Centrism
Oct 31, 2023
A Rothbardian Critique of Effective Altruism
Oct 31, 2023
Rothbard on Suits for Defamation
Oct 30, 2023
Government-Enforced Paid Family Leave Is Not Pro-Family
Oct 30, 2023
Government Agencies Exploit Data Brokers as End-Around to Legal Restrictions
Oct 29, 2023
Why Must Supply Precede Demand? Understanding Economic Foundations
Oct 28, 2023
How the Fed Undermines Prosperity
Oct 28, 2023
Spending More Taxpayer Money on Foreign Policy Boondoggles Has Solved Nothing
Oct 27, 2023
The Regime Plans More for Us Than Just Hillary Clinton’s "Deprogramming" Demands
Oct 27, 2023
Government Is the Hidden Hand Directing the Culture Wars
Oct 26, 2023
Police Mergers Are Not the Answer, but Privatization Is
Oct 26, 2023
No, We Cannot Afford to Fund Yet Another War
Oct 25, 2023
How Inflationary Money Causes the Affordability Crisis
Oct 25, 2023
Rothbard on a Priori History
Oct 24, 2023
Is There Inflation in Government-Financed Goods and Services?
Oct 24, 2023
How a Trickle Can Turn into a Flood
Oct 23, 2023
Taking a Closer Look at the Vaunted Scandinavian Welfare States
Oct 23, 2023
Fed Forecasts: Financial Sport or Costly Distraction?
Oct 22, 2023
Economics and the Real World
Oct 21, 2023
What Is Seen—And What is NOT Seen: Bastiat's Often-Ignored Wisdom
Oct 21, 2023
Cotton Pickin' Sanctions
Oct 20, 2023
Tyranny, Inc.: How "Beltway Libertarians" Failed to Convince Conservatives
Oct 20, 2023
Assessing the BRICS Expansion: Debunking Expectations
Oct 19, 2023
Living Libertarian: Brief Biographies
Oct 19, 2023
Do Monarchs Always Have Low Time Preferences?
Oct 18, 2023
Real Economic Growth Depends on Savings
Oct 18, 2023
The State against Anonymity
Oct 17, 2023
The US Military Is Laying the Groundwork to Reinstitute the Draft
Oct 17, 2023
Hamas, Israel, and the Collapse of the Fiat Global Order
Oct 16, 2023
Chess, Trans Athletes, and Free Markets in Sports
Oct 16, 2023
Oil Export Bans Make for Crude Politics
Oct 15, 2023
Bank CEOs Have Their Heads in the Clouds
Oct 14, 2023
Dollarization in Argentina Will Not Promote Freedom
Oct 14, 2023
Get the US Out of the Middle East
Oct 13, 2023
Is It Just War or Unjustified Slaughter of Innocents?
Oct 13, 2023
The Central Bank Policy Interest Rate vs the Natural Rate
Oct 12, 2023
It’s Time for Some Debt and Entitlement Alarmism
Oct 12, 2023
The Left Is Now Telling Us (Ukrainian) Nazis Aren't So Bad After All
Oct 11, 2023
Dollarization Puts Foreign Economies at the Mercy of the US Regime
Oct 11, 2023
Can We Find a Basis for Private Property Rights?
Oct 10, 2023
Haiti May Have Won Independence, But It Is Not Independent of Chaos and Poverty
Oct 10, 2023
Inflation: Government’s Insidious Form of Theft
Oct 09, 2023
Why the Fed's Tight Rate Stance Damages the Economy
Oct 09, 2023
No, Governor, Rights Are NOT Government-Issued Privileges That You Can Suspend
Oct 09, 2023
Cultural Appropriation: The Nontheft of Something No One Owns
Oct 07, 2023
Welcome to the Twenty-First Century American Bankruptcy Show
Oct 07, 2023
The House Showdown: Separating Truth from Outright Falsehoods
Oct 06, 2023
Would You Hire an AI-powered McRobot or a Human Employee?
Oct 06, 2023
American Prosperity Is Greater than Most of Us Realize
Oct 05, 2023
The Austrian School's Deductive Approach: A Beacon for Economic Understanding
Oct 05, 2023
A Procapitalist Philosopher
Oct 04, 2023
Forced Isolation of Patients in the ICU Is Barbaric and Counterproductive
Oct 04, 2023
Let's Examine Some REAL Crimes Committed by Presidents
Oct 03, 2023
Consumer Credit Is Expanding Even While the Fed Pushes up Interest Rates
Oct 03, 2023