Politics

Mises Institute Fellow Karl-Friedrich Israel appears on The Peter McCormack Show.

Politicians now are campaigning on “affordability,” but their idea of making things in life more “affordable” consists of numerous interventions into free markets that ultimately make things more costly.

As leftist politicians claim they will make life more “affordable” by imposing costly government intervention into the markets, others vote with their feet, moving to places with less intervention and more economic sanity.

The US regime is gearing up for another war. Get ready for another regime-change disaster like we got in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss military escalation with Venezuela, more troubling jobs data, and how college football offers an example of how financialization, politicalization, and bad economy theory can undermine great American traditions.

Many of the same Democratic lawmakers now condemning the shooting of survivors of the alleged drug boat strike had no problem when presidents they liked greenlit even worse strikes. But that doesn’t excuse Trump’s awful escalation in the Caribbean.

Modern progressive political narratives depend heavily upon the misuse of words, changing their meaning in hopes that people will forget what they originally meant. Politics corrupts our very language itself.

Politicians and central bankers invoke "contagion" to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.

The government failed to govern, but not by mistake, it was fully incentivized to do so.

Thinking clearly about the state requires us to think differently than what is typically believed. The state is not a “necessary evil,” but rather it is just evil.