Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had their first shared television event of the election season this week as the American political circus continues. Noticeably absent was any discussion of the real issues affecting the American people. Nothing on the Fed’s war on savings, the false promises of central bankers, and their schemes to give them even more power. Nothing on fixing the cronyist healthcare system, which leaves all Americans poorer and more vulnerable. And nothing about vitally needed cuts to government spending, just as Ryan McMaken predicted last week. While it’s great to see a major party nominee question the wisdom of invading foreign countries, what is needed is an honest conversation about America’s economic reality.
The next episode of Mises Weekends features a recent discussion with Dr. Mark Thornton making the libertarian case for real free trade, as opposed to unholy negotiated trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Brent Budowsky, a journalist for The Hill newspaper in Washington DC, also joined the show to present a pro-union, left-populist perspective. They both conclude that complex trade schemes, which often involve creating supra-national regulatory bodies, are bad for America and the economy — but for totally different reasons.
Join us October 1 in Boston for the most engaging and provocative perspectives on the untold story of this election: The real state of the US economy. What can be done to radically change the course of the US economy? What will it take to make DC stop spending and the Fed stop manipulating? Can the house of cards be rebuilt on a new foundation? And can Austrian economics provide real answers to our fiscal and monetary problems?
Speakers will include Mark Thornton, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Edward Stringham, and Jeff Deist. Click here to learn more.
And in case you missed any of them, here are the articles featured this week on the Mises Wire:
- Interview: Mark Thornton on Rothbard, Skyscrapers, and More by Grégoire Canlorbe
- The Continuing Relevance of Mises's Human Action by Richard M. Ebeling
- Latin America's Pink Tide Crashes on the Rocks by Ryan McMaken
- Cronyism: Government, the AMA, and Med Schools by Michel Accad
- Thanks to Capitalism, There's More Wealth to Go Around by David Gordon
- Former IMF Economist Declares War on Cash by Tho Bishop
- Equality and The American Democrat by Gary Galles
- Trump Is Half Right on the Military by Ryan McMaken
- The False Promises Behind Quantitative Easing by Claudio Grass
- The Myth of "Macroeconomics" by Ludwig von Mises
- Economic Reality Matters More than "Expectations" by Frank Shostak
- How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem by Ron Paul
- The Fed vs. Savings by Mark Thornton
- Sorry, Krugman: Austerity Is Good for the Economy by Kai Weiss
- Privatize: Governments Have Failed to Preserve Endangered Species by Michael Malin
