June 2022

Rep. John Linder (R-GA) has retired from Congress and radio talk show host Neal Boortz has been silent for years, but their tax plan just will not die. Writing in the New York Sun, billionaire businessman and Republican Party donor John

Mass shootings are bad enough, but progressives have turned them into political events. They then claim that further politicizing these tragedies will reduce their number. Original Article: "Politicizing Mass Shootings Only Guarantees There Will Be More of Them" This Audio Mises Wire

The occurrence of stagflation is associated with a situation of general strengthening in the momentum of prices while at the same time the pace of economic activity is declining. A famous stagflation episode occurred during the 1974-75 period, as year-on-year

[Editors note: The following was the opening address from Dr. Joseph Salerno to this week's Rothbard Graduate Seminar. ] Our main text for the Rothbard Graduate Seminar this week is Murray Rothbard’s Power and Market: Government and the Economy, which contains

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the question of election integrity and what it means for the regime. How should we look at the allegations made in the film 2000 Mules? How should we view the concept of election security? What

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economyby Christopher LeonardSimon and Schuster, 2022viii + 373 pp. Christopher Leonard’s book brings to mind the familiar line from Faust: “Two souls, alas! dwell in my breast.” Leonard offers

Ignorant politicians who create no wealth can only impede great visionaries like Henry M. Galt from creating wealth with monetary chicanery, antitrust litigation, labor laws, and other regulatory measures. Original Article: "The Great Capitalist Novel" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher

President Biden often looks like a punch-drunk old fighter sent into the ring once too often. At this point, the only thing lower than Biden’s approval numbers is his energy level. Is Uncle Joe too old to rebound? At this point,

Leftist regularly accuse capitalism of depending upon racism for its existence, but history tells a much different story. Original Article: "Capitalism Is Not Racist; Capitalism Undermines Racism" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

As Russian political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky has quite rightly said, one should not consider the five-thousand-plus sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation as of this writing as sanctions in the normal diplomatic and economic sense. They are a conditional "second front,"