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Mark Thornton looks at how much money Americans will spend on the Super Bowl this year and discusses the accuracy of the Super Bowl Stock Market Indicator. Be sure to follow Minor Issues at Mises.org/MinorIssues.

The following is excerpted from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market, by Murray N. Rothbard (Mises Institute, 2004), pp. 1297–1327 (notes removed). There are two types of ethical criticisms that can be made of the free-market system. One type

Now that a few days have passed and the hysteria has come down slightly, perhaps a few sane thoughts might be added to what has otherwise been a microcosm of everything that is wrong with America’s warmongering media and political

Mises Institute scholar and Troy University business school Dean Allen Mendenhall is among the leading critics of woke capital. He leads a new initiative against the perverse investment practices demanded by ESG/DEI commissars, and joins Jeff Deist to discuss both the origins of "stakeholder"

Are asset inflation and its bellwether, the euro, really heading into a new spring following a winter marked by the now-fading scare of Fed disinflation (alternatively described as “restrictive monetary policy”)? A computer powered by artificial intelligence might well conclude

The empty shopping mall: a story of how government actions created a huge malinvestment in western Pennsylvania. Original Article: "Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

Robert Kagan is a well-known neoconservative historian who believes that America ought to exercise a “benevolent hegemony” over the rest of the world. In his just-published book, The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900–1941

How do societies determine who their heroes are? We know that often those seen as heroes actually made a country worse off. Original Article: "How Should a Nation Determine Its Heroes?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

When proposing alternatives to the state, libertarians should look back at the basics of political philosophy and find historical examples that illustrate the achievement of the goals of individual freedoms and self-government. The most common mistake is to think of the

Progressives like to claim that "America" has a "gun violence problem." However, the "gun violence problem" happens to exist in places where progressives dominate the government. Original Article: "Concentrate Where the Murders Are Concentrated" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher