Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Filter archive by: Show All Show only Articles Show only Videos

Affective Polarization Is Making Us Dumber

2023-11-20

by

2023-11-20

Original Article: Affective Polarization Is Making Us Dumber

Read More »

Preserving the Statist Quo: Creating a Generation of Welfare-ing, Libertine Narcissists

2023-11-20

by

2023-11-20

Regardless of one’s opinion on Israel and Palestine, people can agree that killing innocent civilians, wherever they’re from, is horrible, and whoever takes hostages for bargaining chips in negotiations is a horrific human being. Such is the case of the ongoing siege of Gaza. One has to wonder why Hamas decided that the best course of action was to commit atrocities and kidnap civilians, only to elicit a response amounting to war crimes against...

Read More »

Coauthor of War College Journal Article Tries to Backtrack on Call for “Partial Conscription”

2023-11-19

by

2023-11-19

After an earlier article by Zachary Yost on a call by military “experts” to reinstate the military draft, the authors of the original paper are trying to back off on their original recommendation. But there is no doubt as to what they want the government to do. Original Article: Coauthor of War College Journal Article Tries to Backtrack on Call for "Partial Conscription"

Read More »

Statism Is the Cause of the Israel-Hamas War

2023-11-18

by

2023-11-18

This latest Middle East conflict is ultimately little more than gang warfare. We oppose it as a matter of principle. Original Article: Statism Is the Cause of the Israel-Hamas War

Read More »

Mohamed El-Erian’s New Views on the Fed

2023-11-18

by

2023-11-18

In this week's episode Mark reports on Pimco's former financial guru Mohamed El-Erian and his new views on the Fed. Mark also does some minor deconstruction of recent financial news to paint a clearer picture of imminent recession—something mainstream economists will be reluctant to call until 2025.  Be sure to follow Minor Issues at Mises.org/MinorIssues.

Read More »

America the Obese: How Taxpayers Are Forced to Ruin Their Health

2023-11-18

by

2023-11-18

The first piece of legislation passed by the new Congress of the United States of America after the ratification of the Constitution included a tariff on the import of foreign sugar. Although this tariff was passed as a means to raise the funds needed to pay the debts accrued during the Revolutionary War, coincidentally it also provided elaborate protections to the nation’s wealthiest farmers of sugarcane and sugar beets. The indirect subsidies...

Read More »

Driving Up Fatalities: Why Flight Vaccine Mandates Would (Likely) Backfire

2023-11-18

by

2023-11-18

During the height of the covid-19 pandemic, some politicians and voters advocated for covid vaccine mandates for air travel. And while this proposal has some intuitive pull, there are likely tradeoffs here that could result in more deaths overall as a by-product of increasing the cost and trouble of air travel, incentivizing travelers to choose another form of travel: driving. And since driving is more dangerous, flight vaccine mandates would...

Read More »

Murray Sabrin’s Memoir: From Liberal Democrat to Libertarian Running for Governor of New Jersey

2023-11-18

by

2023-11-18

Murray Sabrin has a long history with the Austrian movement and is one of two people who had Murray Rothbard on his PhD committee. He talks with Bob about his memoir, From Immigrant to Public Intellectual: An American Story. Murray Sabrin's Substack: Mises.org/HAP422a From Immigrant to Public Intellectual: An American Story: Mises.org/HAP422b Rothbard's America's Great Depression: Mises.org/HAP422c Bob's Blog on the Distortion of...

Read More »

Why the National Debt is Now Threatening the Regime

2023-11-18

by

2023-11-18

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Peter St. Onge, an economic fellow with the Heritage Foundation and frequent Mises Wire author. With the costs of financing the national debt now exceeding the costs of military spending and major social programs, Peter explains why government spending is now a crisis the regime can't ignore.  "Sovereign Debt is Eating the World" by Peter St....

Read More »

China’s Inefficient and Unsustainable Central Planning

2023-11-17

by

2023-11-17

China's so-called economic miracle is running into the ground as the reality of central planning becomes increasingly obvious and an economic reckoning looms. Original Article: China’s Inefficient and Unsustainable Central Planning

Read More »

The Legacy of Legacy Admissions Is Not What the Critics Claim

2023-11-17

by

2023-11-17

In the aftermath of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and its companion case, race-based affirmative action is, for the most part, dead. While there are legitimate criticisms of this decision from the Right, the Left has taken the near opposite approach. Rather than simply lamenting, the Left is using this as an opportunity for taking further action against what they perceive to be racial discrimination. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) states...

Read More »

The Taxman Cometh

2023-11-17

by

2023-11-17

Philip Goff’s new book Why? The Purpose of the Universe is an outstanding investigation of cosmic purpose written from the author’s panpsychist point of view. It’s an impressive contribution to metaphysics, but, you may ask, why I am talking about it in this week’s column? The answer is that the author includes an appendix, “P.S. Is Taxation Theft?,” in which he raises some very relevant points about libertarianism. You may now wonder why a book on...

Read More »

How German Exports Lost the Race with China

2023-11-17

by

2023-11-17

The German economic powerhouse is slowing, weighed down by its costly green energy policies and a bloated welfare state. Germany's economy needs market reforms, not more state intervention. Original Article: How German Exports Lost the Race with China

Read More »

Cryptocurrency: Integrity Destroyer or Policy Scapegoat?

2023-11-17

by

2023-11-17

Cryptocurrency is failing. Or so it seems. Last week, the arrest of Su Zhu, cofounder of failed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, brought to light the integrity issues which have plagued the crypto landscape. Along with cofounder Kyle Davies, the fund faced $3.5 billion of creditor’s claim, making its collapse one of the largest hedge-fund collapses of all time. Zhu’s arrest came from a long line of incidents. The JPEX scandal, the 2022...

Read More »

The Specter of Hyperinflation Looms over the Economy

2023-11-16

by

2023-11-16

While the White House claims that inflation is losing steam, the truth is that unless the government changes its reckless monetary course, hyperinflation could be in our economic future. Original Article: The Specter of Hyperinflation Looms over the Economy

Read More »

One Cannot Interpret Facts of Reality without Theories

2023-11-16

by

2023-11-16

Many economists, including Milton Friedman, have claimed that reality is elusive and that one cannot know its true nature. Most mainstream economists also believe that data gives us the state of the economy. By inspecting numbers such as gross domestic product (GDP) or the consumer price index, only then can an economist accurately assess the state of economic conditions. Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian School of Economics have had a different...

Read More »

Turkey Is Sustaining Major Inflation. Something Has to Give

2023-11-16

by

2023-11-16

Inflation in Turkey today is officially running close to 70 percent, but the Turkish economy seems to be booming. Inflationary booms, however, cannot be sustained. Original Article: Turkey Is Sustaining Major Inflation. Something Has to Give

Read More »

The Worse-than-Medieval Economics of Climate Technocrats

2023-11-16

by

2023-11-16

Throughout my life, a specter developed by the state has been used to haunt and cajole the world’s politics to favor centralized technocracy. I remember it first being called “global warming,” complete with apocalyptic prognostications meant to occur by specific years. Sometime after those predictions failed to materialize, it was rebranded as “climate change,” and the technocratic class’s predictions became more ethereal and vague. The craze made...

Read More »

The More Complex the Society, The Less Government Control We Need

2023-11-15

by

2023-11-15

Americans live in a complex world. That has made those who argue for ever-growing statism to often claim that “the more complex the society, the more government control we need.” One major reason is that this claim allows them to assert that even if liberty was appropriate in a long-past, simple “horse and buggy” age (as when America began as a country), it cannot possibly be so now. When I hear such an assertion, the first thing I think of is...

Read More »

Canadian Digital Protectionism Gravely Threatens Free Speech

2023-11-15

by

2023-11-15

Under the guise of "modernizing" communications, the Canadian government is vastly expanding its power to regulate social media and threaten free speech. Original Article: Canadian Digital Protectionism Gravely Threatens Free Speech

Read More »