Western Economies Are Self-Destructing with Inflation, Debt, and Taxes
Thanks to covid shutdowns, declining productivity finally brought price inflation to the fore. But the world's governments have learned nothing and cling to the same inflationist policies. Original Article: "Western Economies Are Self-Destructing with Inflation, Debt, and Taxes" This Audio Mises Wire
Why Did the World Choose a Gold Standard Instead of a Silver Standard?
Among those who support the end of government fiat money, it’s not uncommon to hear and see claims that gold is “the best money” or “natural money” or the only substance that’s really suited to be commodity money. In many
Are our weekdays productive enough to want a three-day weekend?
The pandemic shook the work-life balance every individual had carefully curated for themselves, it’s true when we believe our happiness depends on balancing the two elements. For a lot of people, the lockdown and work from home was bliss, saving
Tracy Høeg on the Antiscience of School Closures
Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who has made remarkable research contributions pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis. She has published her findings in the CDC’s MMWR and has given oral testimony to Congress. SHOW NOTES Tracy
F.A. Hayek and the Concept of Coercion
[This article is taken from chapter 28 of The Ethics of Liberty.1 Listen to this chapter in MP3, read by Jeff Riggenbach. You can listen and download the entire book here for podcast and download.] In his monumental work The Constitution
Taking Back Our Liberty in 2022
For those of us who value liberty, these past two years have been a bad dream. It seems like we fell asleep in early 2020 and woke up in 1984! They said that if we just put on a mask
Mark Packard On Entrepreneurial Imagination: You Can’t Do Business Without It
Imagination is the first stage of any value generation journey — starting a development project, enhancing the customer experience, embarking on innovation, or building a business for the next year or the next decade. Imagination might sound like a fuzzy
New York State Has Imposed New Covid Rituals. This Time There’s Some Resistance.
With new mask and vaccine mandates, New York's Governor Kathy Hochul has reaffirmed the state’s status as the nation’s most zealous practitioner of covid cultism. Original Article: "New York State Has Imposed New Covid Rituals. This Time There's Some Resistance." This Audio
How to Avoid Depressions? Foster Saving and Investment
Economic depressions are not caused by a strong decline in the money stock, but by a depleted stock of real savings. Original Article: "How to Avoid Depressions? Foster Saving and Investment" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated
Will Artificial Intelligence Create a Socialist Paradise?
Relating a quip by Soviet economist Nikolai Fedorenko, Yuri Maltsev illustrated the problem with socialism in his foreword to Ludwig von Mises’s Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth. Fedorenko said, at the time, in Maltsev’s words, “[A] fully balanced, checked,