Media and Culture

Has economics fallen to politics? Court economists like Paul Krugman–we might call them "regime economists"–represent a profession in big trouble. Jeff and Bob discuss.

Tho Bishop on the presidential election of 1876.

Dress for success on a budget.

The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposes the lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.

Presented at the Mises Institute Graduate School Commencement.

Bombing private property is bad. So, when someone bombed the pro-eugenics, antihuman Georgia "guidestones," we naturally condemned the bombing. But let's not pretend the monument was a good thing. 

Do these characteristics give rise to monopoly power?

Jeff Deist and Stephan Livera look at money in an era of crazed monetary policy. They tackle how Austrian economics relates to cryptos, why gold still matters, how deflation and "hoarding" are healthy for an economy, and how any challenge to the central bank cartel could create a political upheaval.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires of freedom in people's minds."

Actor and podcaster Clinton Duncan opens Mises University 2022.