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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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From Scholasticism to Enlightenment Liberalism
2d ago00:16:23Tap to summarizeThe intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and violent that have shaped thinking throughout the ages.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholasticism-enlightenment-liberalism
Transcribe →Lies, Damn Lies, and the History of Capitalism
2d ago00:09:33Tap to summarizeModern historians rarely have told the truth about the history of capitalism, and especially in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It is time to set the record straight.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/lies-damn-lies-and-history-capitalism
Transcribe →Greenspan's Empty Talk
2d ago00:39:27Tap to summarizeOn the day Greenspan died, this 2001 essay by Joseph T. Salerno deserves a second life. It documented what the mainstream refused to see: that Greenspan replaced economic theory with intuition, replaced analysis with data-worship, and called his guesswork a science.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/greenspans-empty-talk
Transcribe →Alan Greenspan Dies at 100
2d ago00:17:14Tap to summarizeGreenspan served as an especially important cog in this machine by increasing the Fed’s prerogatives within the global economy.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/alan-greenspan-dies-100
Transcribe →The Sixth Republic?
2d ago00:08:23Tap to summarizeAs Ryan McMaken recently pointed out, the original constitutional republic created in 1787 no longer exists. Joseph Solis-Mullen asked if the US is now in its Sixth Republic.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/sixth-republic
Transcribe →Why You Shouldn't Trust the Bureaucrats
2d ago00:09:31Tap to summarizeProgressive elites insist that we “trust our government” when they are in control, but why should we? In fact, we should no more trust government than Charlie Brown should have trusted Lucy to hold the football.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-you-shouldnt-trust-bureaucrats
Transcribe →Why Stable Systems Fail: The Illusion of Institutional Control
5d ago00:09:34Tap to summarizeSystems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/why-stable-systems-fail-illusion-institutional-control
Transcribe →Institutional Closure: Why Managed Directivism Breeds Its Own Collapse
5d ago00:11:23Tap to summarizeAs technology advances, progressives believe that this time, all of their social engineering and attempts to establish socialism will finally come to fruition. They are in for a rude surprise.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/institutional-closure-why-managed-directivism-breeds-its-own-collapse
Transcribe →Why the US President Loves “Inflation”?
5d ago00:09:45Tap to summarizeThe president has declared that he loves inflation. What economic fallacies is he likely adopting that leads to this conclusion?Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-us-president-loves-inflation
Transcribe →China’s Industrial Policy: Ambition, Inefficiency, and a Cautionary Tale for America
6d ago00:11:08Tap to summarizeWhile China’s economy has boomed, many people wrongly associate that success with the Chinese government’s industrial policies. Intervention has created many problems there—just as it has done elsewhere.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/chinas-industrial-policy-ambition-inefficiency-and-cautionary-tale-america
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