Audio recordings of Mises Wire articles, offering contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.
The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-trumps-populism-failed
Just as, for them, liberty must be the highest political end, peace must be the highest end of foreign policy.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/libertarians-must-never-warm-warfare-state
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Trump’s Foreign Policy in Latin America and the...
President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time for policy reset.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-foreign-policy-latin-america-and-caribbean-needs-strategic-reset
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Tax Freedom Day Underestimates How Long You Work for...
While Tax Freedom Day is mid-April, Rothbard’s measure of the government's fiscal burden reveals that Americans don’t truly start working for themselves until June 5, over seven weeks later.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/tax-freedom-day-underestimates-how-long-you-work-government
It took centuries to end the idea that taxes kept the privileged class in comfort and financed their wars. But now we're told taxes = civilization.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/taxation-robbery
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Turns Out the Elites Like the Administrative State...
The New York Times claims that the "administrative state"—that is, governance by unelected bureaucrats—protects our country and enhances democracy.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/turns-out-elites-administrative-state-better-democracy
The old saw that when one has a hammer, everything else is a nail certainly applies to a new book by Oliver Bullough on so-called money laundering. Joakim Book sets the readers straight.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/money-laundering-and-oliver-bulloughs-new-pearl-clutching-book
Before J. M. Keynes and Stephanie Kelton, there was John Law. The promise of free money never seems to die.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/irresistible-promise-john-law
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When Corporations Resist the State: Ethics, AI, and...
What happens when a corporation resists a government edict because company leaders believe the policy to be morally wrong? The ordeal of Anthropic is a current case in point.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-corporations-resist-state-ethics-ai-and-limits-government-power
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Durham Police and Prosecutors Committed Numerous...
When accusations of rape and assault were made against Duke University’s lacrosse team in 2006, both the Durham City Police and District Attorney Michael Nifong engaged in law breaking to indict three young men that clearly were innocent.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/durham-police-and-prosecutors-committed-numerous-crimes-duke-lacrosse-case-and-escaped-meaningful-punishment
Mainstream finance regularly confuses finance, insurance and betting. The Austrian School provides the tools to understand their differences.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mistaken-identity-prediction-markets
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The Iran War Brings More Inflation and New Strength...
Beyond the initial oil shock, the Iran war is also laying the foundation for ongoing monetary inflation and price inflation, with no real change to the US regime’s commitment to easy money.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/iran-war-brings-more-inflation-and-new-strength-yuan
The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the central state to have a monopoly on coercive power is always a mistake.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/only-power-can-check-power
Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the federal government—not just slave states—had implemented legal protections of slavery by policy for decades.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/antebellum-federal-protections-slavery
Even though Cuba poses no threat to the U.S., the Trump administration continues its criminal policies of sanctions and other restrictions in an attempt to foist "regime change" on the country.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-actions-toward-cuba-are-criminal
Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits are badly mistaken.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/turmoil-washington-post-does-not-threaten-democracy
Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the US government will always have enough printed money to fund its tyrannical schemes.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/have-fiat-money-will-tyrannize
The Bill of Rights transformed the Constitution from one of supreme and totalnational power to a partially mixed polity where the liberal anti-nationalists at least had a fighting chance.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-federalists-hated-bill-rights
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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In both cases, the government has refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and has engaged in legal coverups.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/latest-federal-killing-minnesota-echoes-ruby-ridge
Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet”from you.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/environmentalism-anti-humanism