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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 Defeat of Thomas Massie: Where to Go from Here?
3d ago00:14:58Tap to summarizeThe recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond?Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/defeat-thomas-massie-where-go-hereSee also "Post-Massie America" (Power & Market Podcast) and "Massie Defeated in Kentucky Primary" by Ryan McMaken.
Transcribe →“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism
3d ago00:23:42Tap to summarizeViewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later nationalist understanding backward onto the founding era.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/creating-nation-declaration-independence-and-nation-anachronism
Transcribe →Mises and the Role of the Economist in Public Policy
4d ago00:43:17Tap to summarizeIn contemplating the life and career of Ludwig von Mises, one is struck by the nobility and grandeur, the high courage, of his lonely and lifelong struggle on behalf of truth and laissez-faire. But what led Mises to pursue his lonely and seemingly doomed struggle until the very end?Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/mises-and-role-economist-public-policy
Transcribe →There Is No Reprieve in the Fed’s War on Savings
4d ago00:13:08Tap to summarizeThe Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/there-no-reprieve-feds-war-savings
Transcribe →The Heart of a Fighter
4d ago00:24:57Tap to summarizeWhat inspires us about the life of Mises, writes Lew Rockwell, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/heart-fighter
Transcribe →Justice Clarence Thomas Is Right about Progressivism
4d ago00:16:09Tap to summarizeIn attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct: progressivism has brought one disaster after another, all the while empowering the worst of state actors.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/justice-clarence-thomas-right-about-progressivism
Transcribe →Who Owns the Airwaves and the Sea?
4d ago00:10:03Tap to summarizeFor too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-owns-airwaves-and-sea
Transcribe →The Two Economies
5d ago00:16:17Tap to summarizeAs I see it now, there are really two economies—two distinct systems of producing and exchanging wealth. Or rather, two systems that purport to do these things, though only one of them really produces anything, and the other is organized by a peculiar form of exchange.The first is what is called the trade economy—the one summed up in the phrase "the free market." The other might be called "the tax economy."Original article: https://mises.org/free-market/two-economies
Transcribe →The Public Goods Circular Argument
5d ago00:16:35Tap to summarizePublic goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state itself depends upon prior production for every resource it possesses.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/public-goods-circular-argument
Transcribe →When Our Word is No Longer Good
5d ago00:04:52Tap to summarizeThe White House leaks that a deal is almost done. Markets surge. Insiders profit. The deal collapses. Repeat. Now the markets barely move. Nobody believes it anymore. A government that cries wolf this many times eventually finds itself alone.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/when-our-word-no-longer-good
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