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Audio recordings of Mises Wire articles, offering contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.
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The Declaration and Dinesh D’Souza’s “Revisionist History”
Yesterday00:25:11Tap to summarizeDinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history
Transcribe →When Death Is Cheaper Than Care: Mutual Aid for the Developing World
2d ago00:12:24Tap to summarizeMutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world
Transcribe →The US Supports the Mass Migration of Moroccans into Spanish Territory
2d ago00:08:45Tap to summarizeIn spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory
Transcribe →Inflation and Statistics: Economics Explains Them, Not the Other Way Around
3d ago00:06:57Tap to summarizeStatistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around
Transcribe →What Would Happen if Spain Had an Open Border with Morocco
4d ago00:12:46Tap to summarizeLast week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco
Transcribe →I Spent 28 Years Arresting Criminals. Rothbard Was Right All Along
1w ago00:12:42Tap to summarizeMurray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along
Transcribe →The Dupes of War
2w ago00:10:11Tap to summarizeNo matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dupes-war
Transcribe →Paradise Lost, Government Gained
2w ago00:10:11Tap to summarizeAfter defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained
Transcribe →Universal Principles of Liberalism and the Politics of Race
2w ago00:08:48Tap to summarizeIn attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race
Transcribe →How Democratic Socialism Created California's Housing Crisis
2w ago00:12:08Tap to summarizeThe democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to housing construction in California.Original article: https://mises.org/misesian/how-democratic-socialism-created-californias-housing-crisis
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