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13:46

Anarcho-Capitalism: The Nine Most Important Objections

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/05

"Anarcho-Capitalism is good in theory, but it would never work in the real world." That is a common objection to A-C, but is it correct? What are the objections and how do we answer them. Stanisław Wójtowicz provides some answers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-capitalism-nine-most-important-objections

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8:28

From Bad to Worse, Irish Rent Control

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/05

Apparently, Ireland's government has not learned any lessons from rent control disasters elsewhere. Thus, the Irish will have to learn this hard lesson and face the consequences of their economic folly.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bad-worse-irish-rent-control

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7:48

Jeff Bezos’s Yacht: Driver of Economic Activity

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/05

A yacht—like any good exchanged on the free market—represents countless value-maximizing exchanges and represents an industry that employs thousands of people to provide goods and services to others.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/jeff-bezoss-yacht-driver-economic-activity

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11:36

The Complexity of Historical Narratives

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/05

Understanding any era of history requires the ability to view complex things. However, people often employ simple narratives as their historical guides, which leads to wrong conclusions. The pre-war history of the American South is one that is much more complex than the narratives imply.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/complexity-historical-narratives

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10:42

How Does Money Acquire its Value?

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/04

Thanks for modern Keynesian economics, most people believe money gains its value from the government that issues it. Money's value, however, is historically tied to the value of the commodity from which money was derived.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-does-money-acquire-its-value

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15:40

The Origins of FDR’s Teutonophobia

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/02

It was no secret that President Franklin Roosevelt hated Germany and all things German. Heavily influenced by Silas Marcus MacVane. FDR embraced MacVane's left-leaning progressivism.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/origins-fdrs-teutonophobia

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12:07

Austrian Perspectives on Social Justice

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/02

Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way of creating the "just" society.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspectives-social-justice

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16:13

Why Governments Burned Money

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/08/01

While it is true that colonial era governments sometimes burned paper money after receiving it in the form of taxation, why they burned the money is for reasons other than what MMT advocates are claiming. In the end, the MMT promoters are telling a false history.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-governments-burned-money

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4:49

Nobody for Fed Chairman

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/30

The proper answer to who should be Fed chairman is…nobody. Nobody knows the “correct” interest rate.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/nobody-fed-chairman

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8:48

Trump’s Tariff Ship Has Sailed: The Chinese Ship Levy

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/30

President Trump is proposing a $1.5 million levy on Chinese-built ships that enter US harbors. Since a majority of cargo ships have been produced by Chinese shipyards, the costs would be substantial. This action also would damage US exports, yet another unintended consequence of US policies.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-tariff-ship-has-sailed-chinese-ship-levy

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15:53

Why Classical-Liberal Constitutionalism Has Failed

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/30

The old classical liberal political tactics of constitutionalism, state building, and universal suffrage have clearly failed. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-classical-liberal-constitutionalism-has-failed

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16:02

MMTers Love When Governments Burn Money

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/25

Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the history and the causes wrong. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmters-love-when-governments-burn-money

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7:38

Will an Iran Cyber Attack Panic Usher In a New...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/23

In the wake of the US bombing of Iran, media outlets are warning about Iran retaliating with cyber attacks on the West. As the public fear of attacks increases, government moves into the void to find new ways to restrict our liberties.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/will-iran-cyber-attack-panic-usher-new-patriot-act

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12:40

Understanding the Causes of Lincoln’s War

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/19

Why did North and South go to war with each other in 1861? The standard narrative is that slavery caused the war while more thoughtful people realize that the causes are much more complex than the simple "slavery existed" narrative.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/understanding-causes-lincolns-war

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8:28

The Axiom of Action and the Inescapability of Liberty

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/18

Socialists despise individual liberty because they believe that allowing humans to make free choices supposedly leads to selfish and anti-social behavior. However, by denying individual choice, socialists are denying human action itself.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/axiom-action-and-inescapability-liberty

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8:00

The Invasion of the Spatializers

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/18

Jesús Huerta de Soto has published a series of lectures on Austrian Economics, and Dr. David Gordon in Friday Philosophy reviews his Lectures in Austrian Economics, Volume 1. Dr. Gordon is especially interested in how de Soto deals with time.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/invasion-spatializers

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6:00

Why Mises University Matters

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/17

Mises University begins Sunday, July 20, and given that misinformation abounds about the economy, it is good to have a forum where students can learn economic truths and stretch their minds.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-mises-university-matters

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11:51

Subsidies to Amtrak and Siemens: A Pathway To...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/17

Despite assurances from Amtrak's administrators that profitability is just around the corner, Amtrak remains a huge money loser. However, even given the long distances of some of the routes, Amtrak could still be profitable if its leadership is willing to make changes.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/subsidies-amtrak-and-siemens-pathway-cronyism-few

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4:12

Mistrusting Government about Epstein and More

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/16

Exposing such lies is key for restoring liberty. The good news is that the more mistrust of government grows, the easier it will be to find people receptive to our message.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/mistrusting-government-about-epstein-and-more

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12:01

Josh Hawley Proves That Republicans Still Don’t...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/16

By introducing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is demonstrating that while Republicans like to talk about free markets, they are statists and interventionists like their Democratic colleagues across the aisle.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/josh-hawley-proves-republicans-still-dont-understand-economics

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