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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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

Audio Mises Wire ·

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

Audio Mises Wire ·

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?

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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

Was the American Revolution Radical?

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/03

The American Revolution wasn’t a polite disagreement with Britain. It was a people-powered upheaval that shattered empires, inspired global revolutions, and rewrote the rules of liberty.Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/was-american-revolution-radical

Republicans and Big Government

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2025/07/02

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/republicans-and-big-government

A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex

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2025/07/02

The Republican insistence on increasing military spending is the main reason Congress cannot cut taxes without increasing the debt, making cuts in domestic welfare programs, or both.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/big-beautiful-bill-military-industrial-complex

Trump’s Strike Against Iran: Weapons of Mass Overreach

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/02

Another president, another “strike for peace.” Trump’s assault on Iran wasn’t about safety. It was another step in the long tradition of unchecked executive power and endless war waged without consent.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/trumps-strike-against-iran-weapons-mass-overreach

A Free Market Would Preclude Today’s Headlines

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/02

Our media, higher education, and, of course, governments tell us that our social and economic problems are due to capitalism. Yet, what we see are governments bringing us inflation, chaos, and the horror of war. It's time we abandon the fiction that governments "serve the people."Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/free-market-would-preclude-todays-headlines

The Economics of Nuclear Weapons

Audio Mises Wire ·

2025/07/01

The fact remains that the strategic value of nuclear arms lies almost totally on the side of defense.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/economics-nuclear-weapons

Methodological Individualism in Historical Analysis

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2025/07/01

To better understand history, we must understand how people thought and acted in the context of their times and the prevailing worldviews of that era. Unfortunately, modern historians insist on looking at US History from modern collectivists viewpoints.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/methodological-individualism-historical-analysis

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