Best Episodes of Audio Mises Wire

How People Can Better Fight Inflation

In order to vastly expand the regulatory state, the Biden administration is using fake cost-benefit ratios to make its regulations seem less costly and more beneficial. This is clearly fraudulent, but no bureaucrat will be charged with any crim

The Lesson of the Trump Conviction

Ordinary people cannot stop the Fed and the government from inflating the currency, but they can take measures to shield themselves from some of its harmful effects. Mark Thornton presents a few ideas on how it can be done.Original Article: How

The Menace of Political Show Trials

The case against Donald Trump was utterly ridiculous. Yet he was convicted anyway. Opponents of the political establishment need to understand why. Original Article: The Lesson of the Trump Conviction

The Socialist Road to Destruction amid So-Called Good Intentions

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's conviction in Manhattan—a political show trial, to be sure—David Gordon reviews Danilo Zolo’s, Victor’s Justice, which examined the Nuremberg Trials following World War II.Original Article: The Menace of Polit

The Unsustainable AI-Driven Lending Boom

Socialists pride themselves on their supposed good intentions even as they fashion policies that create havoc and harm the people socialists claim to be helping. Ludwig von Mises called it destructionism.Original Article: The Socialist Road to

Do You Know Who’s Hitting You?

The endless bubble economy has a new lending craze: loans backed by AI chips. The problem is that while the chips serve as collateral, companies right now cannot make enough revenue to cover their costs.Original Article: The Unsustainable AI-Dr

Civilization Depends upon Economic Freedom

While our political “leaders” insist that the government is “protecting” us, it offers the same kind of “protection” that mobsters offer: pay us to “protect” you, or we burn down your place with you in it.Original Article: Do You Know Who’s Hit

No Honor Among Government Thieves: The Evil of Asset Forfeiture

Political and academic elites claim that economic freedom is the antithesis of civilization. They claim that functioning civilization can come only from a welfare state, a nonsensical propositionOriginal Article: Civilization Depends upon Econo

Scott Galloway’s TED Talk Reveals a Basic Ignorance of Economics

Asset forfeiture is another term for state-sponsored theft. Reform of this pernicious policy is almost impossible because of the incentives set up by governments at all levels.Original Article: No Honor Among Government Thieves: The Evil of Ass

One of the problems in presenting economic concepts to a public audience is that too many people in the academic world do not comprehend the simple presence of opportunity cost. Original Article: Scott Galloway’s TED Talk Reveals a Basic Ignora

Coyning US into War

Unsuccessful DEI Efforts Meet Legislative Opposition in Tennessee

David Gordon reviews How to Run Wars, by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall. Their tone is satirical, aimed at showing the folly and corruption that marks the policies of the foreign policy elites.Original Article: Coyning US into War

Does Increasing the Money Supply also Increase Economic Growth?

The Tennessee Board of Regents for higher education is finding that their DEI efforts are not successful, and the Tennessee legislature has become skeptical. It might be better to scrap the DEI collectivist “solutions” altogether.Original Artic

Debunking Robert Reich’s Debunking

Keynesian economists believe that the key to increasing economic growth is increasing the supply of money in circulation. Money, however, is a means of exchange, not a means of payments. The difference is vital to understanding economics.Origin

Distinguishing Libertarian Philosophy from Political Strategy

Robert Reich is an economic fallacy machine, and he has begun a ten-week series in which he claims to debunk economic myths. Of course, to do so, he has to create economic myths and present them as factual.Original Article: Debunking Robert Rei

Why Does America Have a Lack of Libertarian Representation?

What makes a libertarian society libertarian? Certainly, one must begin—as did Murray Rothbard—not only with the nonaggression principle, but also with the unequivocal protection of private property rights.Original Article: Distinguishing Liber

Central Banks Are Destroying Our Economies

Even though the US had a semilibertarian revolution, there are few libertarians in representative governance.Original Article: Why Does America Have a Lack of Libertarian Representation?

Switzerland Still Cherishes its Traditional Neutrality

Central banks intervene in order to “create demand,” and then they intervene in order to try to mitigate the damage they caused earlier. This is a never-ending scenario of economic destruction.Original Article: Central Banks Are Destroying Our

Smugglers: True Heroes of Liberty

Switzerland has been a neutral country for about five hundred years. Sweden also has a tradition of neutrality, but it has recently changed its position, to its own detriment.Original Article: Switzerland Still Cherishes its Traditional Neutral

US Arms Sales Are a Clear and Present Danger

Even though our legal authorities treat smugglers as criminals, smugglers actually are promoters of liberty who usually break unjust laws. The US was practically founded on smuggling.Original Article: Smugglers: True Heroes of Liberty

The US government’s recent arms sale to Israel is a reminder that arms sales have become a significant part of US foreign policy, as well as a major source of instability around the world.Original Article: US Arms Sales Are a Clear and Present

Don’t Call It Free Trade

Judy Shelton’s Lasting Legacies

According to an article in The Atlantic, Washington is turning away from its previous commitment to “free trade.” However, there never was a “free trade consensus” because Washington always has sought state-managed trade.Original Article: Don’t

Can Data by Itself Inform Us about the Real World?

While her record is hardly perfect, Judy Shelton has been a rarity among monetary economists: an advocate for gold and sound money.Original Article: Judy Shelton’s Lasting Legacies