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Energy Transition as a Tool for Fascist Capitalism

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/26

Europeans are being forced into an energy transition through debt-fueled spending that will lead to permanently higher energy prices and stifle European competitiveness. This won‘t change the climate, but it will make the people poorer.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/energy-transition-tool-fascist-capitalism

Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/25

If education and career skills are what you want, a college or university may be a waste of your time and money.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/four-reasons-why-college-degrees-are-becoming-useless

Busting the "Free College" Myth

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/25

If New Yorkers wanted to help students by paying for their tuition, they would have already done so on their own.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/busting-free-college-myth

America’s Syrian Civil War

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/25

In Syria the damage is done, and future generations will continue to suffer from the cruel folly of those convinced they know how to run everyone else’s lives.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/americas-syrian-civil-war

An Honneth Effort

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/25

In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on Alex Honneth's The Working Sovereign. While Dr. Gordon acknowledges that the author gives an "Honneth" effort, his logic and grasp of the world of work fall way short of being convincing.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/honneth-effort

An Open Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent

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2025/07/24

Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/open-letter-treasury-secretary-bessent

Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/24

The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposesthe lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/private-property-and-customer-safety-starbucks-learns-hard-lesson

Do WNBA Players Really Want to Be Paid What They Are...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/24

At the recent WNBA All-Star game, players wore T-shirts with the message, “Pay us what you owe us.” If one uses the discounted marginal revenue product as a guide, the answer to their demand would be “zero.”Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-wnba-players-really-want-be-paid-what-they-are-owed

The Virus That Was Born an Orphan: The Origin of...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/24

When the covid madness was imposed upon the world five years ago, the lockdown advocates claimed they were just “doing science.” In reality, they were ignoring science, lying, and just “doing totalitarian politics.”Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/virus-was-born-orphan-origin-sars-cov-2-and-silence-institutions

Secession Is Inevitable. War to Prevent It Is Optional

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/22

The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence.Rather, the answerlies in peaceful separation.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/secession-inevitable-war-prevent-it-optional

I, Mises University

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2025/07/22

Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/i-mises-university

Rethinking Sociology with Mises: A New...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/22

Is Austrian Economics compatible with modern sociology, which is presently dominated by collectivists? However, it is possible to apply praxeology to sociology analysis, and that is where one begins to approach this discipline in a manner that promotes liberty.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rethinking-sociology-mises-new-austro-libertarian-framework-understanding-society

The Silent Guardian of Liberty: Hans F. Sennholz and...

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/22

The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the twentieth century.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/silent-guardian-liberty-hans-f-sennholz-and-seed-mises-america

Understanding the Doctrine of States’ Rights

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/22

What do we mean by “states‘ rights”? Mises scholar, Wanjiru Njoya, takes us through the discussion to show us how different people have tried to define and explain that term.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/understanding-doctrine-states-rights

In Their Own Words: Revolutionary Voices on Inflation

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2025/07/18

This article is dedicated to some of the quotes, especially from key participants and primary sources, about inflation and its consequences during the American Revolution. As usual, war led to inflation, which in turn facilitated war, and both contributed to centralization.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/their-own-words-revolutionary-voices-inflation

Democratic Socialism IS Totalitarianism

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2025/07/17

The word "democratic" is supposed to soften the blow of socialism, with Zohran Mamdani's campaign being the latest to fool the voters. In reality, there is no softening real socialism, as it depends upon coercion, violence, and ultimately becomes totalitarian.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/democratic-socialism-totalitarianism

Trump’s Election-Interference Tariff

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2025/07/16

Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt to centrally plan the pricing of thousands of goods and services in the economy, but also to engage in election interference in other countries.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/trumps-election-interference-tariff

Is New York City Doomed?

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/16

There are real concerns regarding Mamdani. Mamdani is a self-described socialist, and socialism has failed disastrously everywhere it's been tried.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/new-york-city-doomed

Are Pro-Natalists the Real Malthusians?

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/10

Both many Pro-Natalists as well as their critics have a Malthusian view of the world in which humans seem to be impervious to incentives and changing conditions. It is time for praxeologists to speak up.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/are-pro-natalists-real-malthusians

Why Is Every Natural Disaster Being Politicized?

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2025/07/10

In the wake of the flooding disasters in Texas, a number of leftists made inflammatory remarks on social media, celebrating the death of flood victims. Our society has reached a low point to where people believe that the “right” political candidates can bring us better weather.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-every-natural-disaster-being-politicized

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