If we’ve been at war with Iran for 47 years, Ronald Reagan was a coward and a traitor. To be consistent, mainstream national conservatives using such language about Iran ought to condemn one of their heroes; otherwise, they don’t believe their own rhetoric.
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho toast to Mises's 145th birthday by discussing his life and legacy.
Norway’s new monarch may prove to be an effective leader, but we are reminded that his hereditary privilege is being financially supported by involuntary taxes.
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya joins Benjamin Boyce to discuss Reconstruction, the Fourteenth Amendment, and her argument that civil rights laws have expanded government power at the expense of property rights and freedom of association.
While he was living, Murray Rothbard saw issues of war and peace as being fundamental to a free society. Nothing has changed since he made that declaration.
Paul Buitink of Reinvent Money interviews Mises Institute economist Mark Thornton on AI, debt, and the Middle East.
J. D. Vance raised a few eyebrows invoking Huey Long as a populist. The problem is that the populist from people like Long and Bernie Sanders is that it is based on confiscation and destruction of wealth and property. Murray Rothbard proposed a real populism.
One of the most important and aspects of Murray Rothbard's work on the American Revolution is his framing of the Constitutional Convention as a counterrevolution against the radicalism of the 1770s.
The 1857 Dred Scott case remains one of the most controversial Supreme Court decision in US History. However, overlooked is the fact that it elevated federal sovereignty above sovereignty of the states.
Mark Thornton traces today’s tangled web of paper money, debt, war, and AI malinvestment—from John Law’s Mississippi Bubble to the Fed’s latest distortions.
As state control over forests and brushlands continues apace both in Spain and the US, the dangers of wildfires grow worse. Environmentalists, naturally, blame capitalism.
The Fed wants to keep interest rates low so the government can borrow on the cheap. But bond markets are driving up interest rates as inflation isn't going away.
Our economic future desperately depends upon entrepreneurs being free to act. Unfortunately, our ruling classes seem to prefer economic chaos.
Mainstream economics does a disservice when students are taught that money is a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account without explaining why and how money came to function in those categories.
Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss a recent article from Daniel McCarthy that both criticizes the irrelevance of libertarianism and laments its influence on modern America.
Trump showed how effective it can be to simply declare success and let supporters believe it. Other politicians are taking notes, even as the problems they all pretend to have addressed continue to grow.
The California Energy Commission is mandating that starting in 2029, California drivers must purchase environmentally approved tires that are less safe than current tires. The results are predictable: higher costs for drivers and more fatal accidents.
No, covid was not the exception to the rule that liberty comes first. Just because the CDC insisted we give up our freedom for what turned out to be a false security did not justify the government’s heavy-handed approach, something that libertarians should have understood all along.
Bob talks with professor Matt McCaffrey about a soon-to-be-published, never-before-seen manuscript by Frank Fetter, surveying the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill.
The drive for military conscription has always depended upon the use of propaganda, since governments cannot make an honest and genuine case for the wars they start.
