July 2022

This article is the second in a two-part series. Check out part 1 here. Even though the downhill trajectory we've seen over the last decades in terms of property rights is bad enough, nothing could have ever prepared us for what

More than sixty years after being "liberated" by Fidel Castro and communism, Cuba has become a large slave state where people enjoy little freedom. Original Article: "More than Sixty Years after "Liberation," Cuba Is a Communist Slave State" This Audio Mises Wire

In the early morning of July 6th, an explosion damaged a monument in Georgia known as the Georgia Guidestones. Because of the damage, the rest of the monument was demolished for safety reasons. The stones were erected by anonymous donors

Sweden's rent control is widely touted by many who don't understand economics as a model for how a property market should work. Young people in Ireland, for example, like to point to Sweden as a nirvana where rent control ensures

People often speak of the Constitution with reverence, as though it were infallible. However, the Constitution was a centralizing document that cast aside the decentralization of the Articles of Confederation. Original Article: "Is the Constitution a Centralizing or Decentralizing Document?" This Audio Mises Wire

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to argue that private property rights, as understood by classic liberal thinkers, by those who embrace Austrian economic theory, and by all members of an enlightened society, are not only the cornerstone, but also the

Although sometimes dubbed “the ivory tower,” the academy is anything but a quaint exception to or ancillary adjunct of the real world. Quite otherwise, academia is an ideological state apparatus. I maintain that the academy is the dominant ideological state

"Repealing the twentieth century" sounds like madness to many. Yet the progressivism that came from that century will be the death knell of civilization if not stopped. Original Article: "Civil Society and Counterrevolution against Progressivism" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by

Paul Krugman denies that the Fed artificially suppressed interest rates. As usual, Krugman neither understands interest rates nor the effects of inflationary policies. Original Article: "Krugman Is Wrong (Again): Artificially Low Interest Rates Created Bubbles" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored

Keynesian economics is a scourge to any nation that tries it, and African countries are no exception. Original Article: "Nine Ways Debt and Deficit Spending Severely Harm African Societies" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.