January 2023

No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward. Original Article: "Hans-Hermann Hoppe on For a New Liberty at 50" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

Myths are crucial for nations to develop a sense of identity and civic pride. In many countries, national myths are centered around the charisma of heroes. Heroes are depicted as phenomenal individuals who uplift society through their determination and self-sacrifice.

Now would be a great time to stop pretending that the financial sector is "free market" or that price inflation and cost-of-living surges are somehow all the fault of "capitalism." Original Article: "Don't Call It Capitalism: The Fed's $8 Trillion Hoard of Financial Assets" This Audio

Remember Lady Justice, who wears a blindfold and holds the scales? She is a state creation, too, and when it comes to state wrongdoing, her thumb holds the scales down. Original Article: "The State Will Always Set the Rules in Its Favor" This

The Federal Reserve is no more "private" than the Environmental Protection Agency, and through its special government status, the Fed inflicts many economic crimes on regular people.  Original Article: "The Fed Is a Purely Political Institution, and It's Definitely Not a Bank." This

One of the principles of good public policy is to focus efforts on understanding social problems and searching for effective responses where those problems are serious, not where they are minor or missing. Local problems justify locally focused and decided

According to popular thinking, the government’s definition of money is of a flexible nature. Sometimes it could be M1, and at other times it could be M2 or some other M money supply. M1 includes currency and demand deposits. M2

Professor Per Bylund of Oklahoma State University, author of How to Think About the Economy joins Jeff and Bob to dissect how economics went so badly wrong. A discipline rooted in theory, axioms, and deduction has devolved into statistics, models,

The recent inflationary episodes in the USA have led to the emergence of several different explanations, ranging from overexpansion of the money supply to supply-side constraints, not to mention the role of rising markups along with price gouging and greed

The move from feudalism to the relatively free capitalist societies occurred slowly, beginning with the emergence of the city-states in Italy in Medieval Europe. Original Article: "The Italian City-Republics Were the Manhattan of the Twelfth Century" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored