Why Assange Was Released
Kyle Anzalone from AntiWar.com joins Bob to discuss the timeline of Wikileaks and why the US government disliked Julian Assange.
Mises Wire
How a Limited State Becomes an Unlimited, Administrative State
The executive power in the United States is no longer a coequal power; it is the dominant power in the land, as Empire requires.
Biden’s Debate Performance Was Revealing
It could very well be the case that the best chance Democrats have remains rallying behind Biden, the candidate that almost all of them now admit is not mentally fit to be in office.
It All Began When the Government Tried to Make Housing More Affordable
The current explosion in rental and home prices is the direct result of government intervention aimed at making it easier to buy a house. Mises wrote that government intervention into the market tends to make things worse. He was right.
The “Equality of Opportunity” Fallacy
A common complaint is that the 1964 Civil Rights Act started in the “right direction,” valuing so-called equality of opportunity, but then went off the rails with “equality of result.” In truth, the act cannot be reconciled with a libertarian society.
Draghi’s Globalist EU Speech Urges Concentration of Power
What began as supposedly a free trade union has been turning into an authoritarian, interventionist nightmare. A recent speech by a top European Union commissioner shows the sad direction the EU is heading.
The Very Model of a Modern Major Bidenomics Economist
Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are declaring Bidenomics to be a huge success, and predicting economic disaster if Trump is elected. It's all further evidence of the pathetic, politicized state of “mainstream” academic economics.
Is Stephanie Kelton Failing Her Academic Responsibility?
Stephanie Kelton, the most visible promoter of MMT, is being derelict in her academic duties by not replying to Per Bylund’s critique of her theories in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
The Collapse of Real Savings Caused the Great Depression
Contrary to Milton Friedman’s thesis that the decline in the money supply caused the Great Depression, the real reason was the collapse of real savings, which was due to loose monetary policies by the Federal Reserve.
Biden’s Blarney on Bank Fees
While President Biden’s inflationary economy continues to falter, the president proposes to outlaw bank overdraft fees, ostensibly to help lower-income Americans. Bank fees, however, are not the biggest threat consumers face; inflation and intervention are the real threats.
