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Monetary Policy and the Present Trend toward Central Planning

2021-10-28

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2021-10-28

The people of all countries agree that the present state of monetary affairs is unsatisfactory and that a change is highly desirable. However, ideas about the kind of reform needed and about the goal to be aimed at differ widely. There is some confused talk about stability and about a standard which is neither inflationary nor deflationary.

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Ep. 1995 Jeff Deist and Tom Woods on What Must Be Done

2021-10-27

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At the Mises Institute's supporters summit over the weekend, Institute president Jeff Deist and I had an informal discussion after dinner in front of the assembled attendees, and reviewed Hans Hoppe's essay "What Must Be Done" as the springboard for our discussion. Warning: zingy.

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Digitalization Could Move Medical Care Beyond “Government Healthcare”

2021-10-27

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2021-10-27

The reductive and lazy dismissals of the possibility of bringing about free market systems of healthcare, in addition to the administrative and legislative hurdles imposed by government agencies, have all been brought into the limelight in the wake of the pandemic.

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1789: The First Thing the New American Government Did Was Impose a Huge Tax Increase

2021-10-26

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2021-10-26

It may come as a surprise—though it should not—that one of the very first acts of the new Congress, under the Constitution, was a tax program at least as great as the one imposed on the colonies by Great Britain. It turned out that taxation with representation could be just as oppressive as taxation without representation or worse.

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Inferno, Canto 21 with Dr. Andrew Moran

2021-10-25

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Dr. Andrew Moran of the University of Dallas explores canto 21 of Dante's Inferno. 100 Days of Dante is brought to you by Baylor University in collaboration with the Torrey Honors College at Biola University, University of Dallas, Templeton Honors College at Eastern University, the Gonzaga-in-Florence Program and Gonzaga University, and Whitworth University, with support from the M.J. Murdock Trust. To learn more about our project, and read with...

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Jeff Deist: Why Covid is an Opportunity for the Right!

2021-10-25

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Our topic is assessing the new post-Covid world. After more than a year of unprecedented state intervention in our private lives, have Americans accepted a grim "new normal"? How bad is the post-Covid economy, from shortages of goods and workers to inflation to rent moratoriums? Will all the monetary and fiscal stimulus really work?

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How the West Pushed back the Frontiers of Death

2021-10-24

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2021-10-24

The world we come from had lots of death. Every society we know of before the mid-1800s or so saw more than one in four children die during their first year of life. Of those who made it through this first difficult year—through disease, malnutrition, famines, or natural disasters—another quarter or so died before they reached fifteen.

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Rothbard: With Interest Rates, “There Are Two, Opposite Causal Chains at Work.”

2021-10-23

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2021-10-23

Editor's Note: Interest rates and inflation are certainly connected to efforts on the parts of central banks to loosen and tighten the money supply. These relationships, however, are much more complex than many people suppose. As we've seen in recent weeks, with constant talk about what the Fed will do next, expectations are an important factor in how markets respond to central bank actions.

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Paul Krugman’s One-Man War on Science

2021-10-23

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2021-10-23

When David Card was recently awarded the Nobel Memorial Price in Economic Science (along with two other economists), I figured Paul Krugman would weight in, since Card, along with the late Alan Krueger, authored an economic study almost thirty years ago that allegedly debunked standard economic theory on the effects of a binding minimum wage. Krugman did not disappoint.

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GDP Tells Us Little about the Health of an Economy

2021-10-22

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2021-10-22

The government and the mainstream media's favorite economic statistic is gross domestic product (GDP). If GDP goes up, then the economy is doing well. If GDP shrinks, then the economy is doing poorly, or so it is assumed. It all seems so simple. But GDP tells us no such thing. The economy may be doing poorly when GDP rises. Likewise, the economy may be doing well when GDP falls.

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Governments Love Inflation, and They Won’t Do Anything to Stop It

2021-10-22

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2021-10-22

No government looking to massively expand its size in the economy and monetize a soaring deficit is going to act against rising prices, despite claiming the opposite. One of the things that surprises citizens in Argentina or Turkey is that their populist governments always talk about the middle classes and helping the poor, yet inflation still soars, making everyone poorer.

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We’re Living in a Chaos Economy. Here’s How to End It.

2021-10-21

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2021-10-21

The chaos economy we're witnessing is not the fault of the market economy. Rather prices in some areas of the economy need to rise so high and so fast to harmonize supply and demand that entrepreneurs can hardly keep pace. Original Article: "We're Living in a Chaos Economy. Here's How to End It." This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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Joe Salerno on Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought

2021-10-20

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2021-10-20

We wrap up our look at Murray Rothbard's sprawling two volume An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought with Dr. Joe Salerno, Rothbard's friend and colleague.

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Why Does Money Have Value? Not Because the Government Says It Does.

2021-10-17

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2021-10-17

Why do individuals desire to have money, which cannot be consumed and produces nothing? To provide an answer to this one must go back in time to establish how money emerged. Original Article: "Why Does Money Have Value? Not Because the Government Says It Does." This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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Berliners in 2021 Want to Expropriate Private Housing

2021-10-16

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2021-10-16

Audio Mises Wire
The Berlin “housing crisis” has, of course, many causes. But most, if not all of them, are government made. Unfortunately, however, people blame “capitalists” for their plight.

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The Football Pod – Ep. 23: the Hannah Tyrrell interview, Andy Moran talks Leitrim, Proposal B, Meath

2021-10-14

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Welcome to Ep. 23 of The Football Pod with Paddy and Andy - Hannah Tyrrell, Dublin Footballer and former Irish Rugby star joins the pod for an extraordinary interview about her sporting achievements and her mental health journey, which she speak so candidly about. We also get stuck into Andy Moran's apponintment - click the timestamps to head to each section, as Paddy Andrews, Andy Moran and Tommy Rooney talk Football. If you've been affected by...

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“Shortages” Aren’t Causing Inflation. Money Creation Is.

2021-10-14

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2021-10-14

The current surge in inflation is not due to a shortage of supply as central banks want us to believe. It is primarily due to soaring consumer demand fueled by monetary creation.

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Fabrice Testa on Super Entrepreneurship

2021-10-13

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2021-10-13

Entrepreneurship is a method, and it’s also a mindset. Fabrice Testa has written a book that brilliantly integrates the two: he calls the integration "Super Entrepreneurship," and his book title is therefore Super Entrepreneurship Decoded (Mises.org/E4B_139_Book).

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Biden Bizarrely Claims That Government Spending Is Costless

2021-10-12

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2021-10-12

There is only one way to describe the fiscal mindset of those in the White House and in Congress who are proposing new federal budgetary expenditure and taxing increases in the trillions of dollars: a fantasy land of financial irrationality.

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Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu.

2021-10-11

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2021-10-11

Last week, the media again tried to ratchet up the public’s fear over covid-19 by labeling it more deadly than the 1918 flu epidemic. “COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Disease in U.S. History,” reads one headline from an NBC TV affiliate. Considering the realities of cancer and heart disease, that headline is absurdly false.

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