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Silver: Manipulation or Fundamentals?

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2025/11/08

Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story. Big players have gamed markets before, but the long arc of silver prices reflects structural forces: the 1960s demonetization that pushed vast coin hoards into private stockpiles, decades of shifting industrial demand, and the rise of by-product mining. Add environmental compliance and hard-to-recycle “green” uses that sequester silver, and the result is stubbornly low real

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Land of the Free? Government Mismanagement of...

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2025/11/04

Dr. Timothy Terrell explains how the federal government’s vast land holdings breed crowding, decay, and wildfire risk—and why returning land to private owners, guided by prices and responsibility, yields healthier parks and forests.Sponsored by Brian and Shanna Tvenstrup.Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

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Freedom as a Tonic for Social Conflict

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2025/11/03

Dr. Shawn Ritenour draws on Mises to show that specialization and trade align long-run interests and raise living standards when prices are guided by sound money. He also argues that state interventions—especially Fed bailouts and credit expansion—pit citizen against citizen and fuel inequality, underscoring the need for real economic education of the kind fostered by the Mises Institute.Sponsored by Don Printz.Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17,

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How Congress Should Reform the Fed

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2025/10/30

Dr. Alex Pollock joins the Human Action Podcast to explain his recent Congressional testimony on the Fed’s growing insolvency and mandate overreach. The Fed now admits to $243 billion in operating losses and nearly $1 trillion in mark-to-market losses, leaving it with negative capital of about $197 billion. Dr. Pollock explains how the central bank transformed itself into “the biggest 1980s-style savings and loan in history” — funding short while buying long, and bleeding cash as interest rates

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Reading Markets the Austrian Way

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2025/10/25

Mark Thornton reviews David Howden’s data-driven guide to long-horizon investing in commodities, useful even for Austrians wary of statistics. Mark explains how the book’s method ranks assets by relative valuation, generates 10-year return forecasts, and frames risk premiums, using gold and silver as case studies. Mark highlights how a formal model can still complement Austrian fundamentals and capital-allocation thinking, and he previews an upcoming episode on silver that will build on these

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Freedom in Money: Hayek’s Competing Currencies, the...

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2025/10/23

Dr. Alex Pollock explains how monopoly money empowers the state to finance deficits and wars, and why legal tender laws should give way to free choice in money. He explores why genuine competitors—likely led by gold—would discipline issuers, noting central banks’ renewed appetite for bullion as an emergent currency competition.Sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

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The Danger of Deflation (Phobia)

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2025/10/23

Dr. Joe Salerno shows how market‑led falling prices spread growth gains even when nominal wages don’t change. The takeaway: don’t fear natural deflation—fear policies that target permanent inflation.Sponsored by Murray and Florence Sabrin.Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

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We Have Not Properly Reckoned with the Economic...

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2025/10/23

The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-have-not-properly-reckoned-economic-insanity-2020Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

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Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce...

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2025/10/22

In this episode of the Human Action Podcast, Bob unpacks Lerner’s Symmetry Theorem—the classic result that, under tight conditions, an import tariff is equivalent to an export tax. He applies the framework to recent 100% China‑tariff headlines, explaining why the dollar might strengthen in theory yet sometimes weakens in practice once retaliation and policy signaling are factored in.The Human Action Podcast on Trump's Tariff Strategy: Mises.org/HAP522a The Lerner Symmetry Theorem:

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AI, Automation, and the Human Advantage

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2025/10/13

This week, Bob tackles growing concerns about artificial intelligence, automation, and mass unemployment. Using the principles of marginal productivity and comparative advantage, he shows how the standard economic arguments still apply—even in the age of ChatGPT and robotics. Responding directly to viral tweets from Matt Walsh, Bob dismantles the popular belief that AI will inevitably destroy human labor markets. He explains why highly skilled labor has always coexisted with less-skilled workers and

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Taxes, War, and the State are Freedom's Biggest Enemies

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2025/10/10

Ryan and political scientist Joseph Solis-Mullen talk about how taxes, war, and the state are all part of a centuries-old formula for impoverishing the productive class while enriching the government class. Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at https://Mises.org/RadioRothbardRadio Rothbard mugs are available at the Mises Store. Get yours at https://Mises.org/RothMugPROMO CODE: RothPod for 20% off

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Peace in Gaza, Homicidal Text Messages, and the...

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2025/10/09

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at this week's headlines, including the prospects for the Gaza peace deal, blue state propaganda, the Jay Jones text message scandal, and an inevitable new subsidy for Obamacare.There's still time to join the 2025 Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida. Learn more here.

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Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?

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2025/10/09

Bari Weiss’s appointment to head CBS News has brought cries of anguish from the usual suspects on the left and approval from some on the right. But will she really bring the kind of change that will challenge the political establishment? Probably not.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bari-weiss-cbs-new-direction-or-misdirectionBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

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Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard's Views on...

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2025/10/07

“The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican Acts were monstrous.”Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/letters-frank-meyer-reveal-rothbards-views-lincoln-slavery-and-popular-sovereignty

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Mises on Separating Morality and State

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2025/10/07

The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has focused attention on political violence. Ludwig von Mises, not surprisingly, understood that tying morality to politicized state helps create the climate where political violence is prevalent.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mises-separating-morality-and-state

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Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages

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2025/10/06

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages

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The Importance of Time in Explaining Asset Bubbles

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2025/10/06

Jonathan Newman returns to join Bob in a critique of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s viral theory of investment bubbles. Yudkowsky states that the bad investment during bubbles should be felt before the bubble pops, not after. They argue that his perspective—while clever—fails to consider the Austrian insights on capital structure, time preference, and the business cycle. They use analogies from apple trees to magic mushrooms to show why Austrian economics provides the clearest explanation for booms, busts, and

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Individualism and the Violence of the Identitarian Left

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2025/10/06

Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining every supposed peaceful goal they claim to be pursuing.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/individualism-and-violence-identitarian-left

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Silver, Subsidies, and the Green Paradox

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2025/09/27

On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton critiques “green” mandates through the seen–unseen lens, contrasting them with conservation grounded in property rights and price signals. He spotlights silver—vital for electronics, medicine, and water filtration, hard to recycle, and mostly a mining byproduct—now in multi-year supply deficits. Subsidies for solar and EVs accelerate silver consumption and divert it from higher-value uses into short-lived installations. Real conservation comes

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Presidents Have a Long History of Using the FCC to...

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2025/09/26

President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they definitely are outrageous, they hardly are the first time presidents have used federal agencies to go after broadcast opposition.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/presidents-have-long-history-using-fcc-silence-their-critics

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