States wish to gain monopolies and maintain them in all facets of life, while entrepreneurs strive to offer alternatives to the state. It’s our job to prevent the state from simply declaring the competition illegal, writes Julian Adorney. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Dianna Keiler.
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Malcolm D. Magee’s new book on Woodrow Wilson examines a much-neglected topic: the role of Wilson’s religion in his enthusiasm for war and his goal to “conquer, convert, and change the nations.” This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Dianna Keiler.
Our global system of fiat moneys favors spenders and borrowers over savers. Low—and moderate—income households who wish to save for the future are at the greatest disadvantage, and this has led to profound cultural changes over the past century, writes Guido Hülsmann. This audio Mises Daily is...
Ludwig von Mises held that middle-of-the-road policy in economic interventionism eventually leads to widespread socialism. With price controls, protectionism, and rampant inflation, Venezuela and Argentina have proven him right, writes Iván Carrino. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Dianna...
Economics Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole still clings to the old neoclassical model "perfect competition" and monopoly, writes Frank Shostak.
Awash in foreign aid from the United States for decades, Pakistan now finds itself having to look to the very countries that once used Pakistan as a model, to find a way out of its military-industrial malaise, writes Salmaan A. Khan. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Dianna Keiler.
Entrepreneurs need very specific information about their products, markets, customers, and profits. Government macroeconomic data, however, does nothing to assist entrepreneurs to obtain this important information, but only helps justify economic intervention, writes Frank Shostak. This audio Mises...
Eighty years ago, Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit first appeared in English. It remains one of the most important books on money and inflation penned in the twentieth century, and it still offers the clearest analysis and understanding of booms and busts, inflations and depressions, writes...
Historian Hunt Tooley examines the turning points in how the world sees the Great War.
Collective security agreements allow many countries’s politicians to shift the cost of national defense to taxpayers outside their own countries. Moral hazard, belligerence, and over-reliance on military solutions often ensue, writes Patrick Barron. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Robert Hale...
Price changes are the solution to a problem, not the problem itself.
The term “quid pro quo” has been twisted to now include government handouts and state-mandated exchanges, writes Gary Galles. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Robert Hale.
Tom Woods explains the “unacceptable“ opinions behind freedom and free markets. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
Do we really want central banks that reward insolvency and encourage inefficiency?
Christopher Westley reports from this year’s National Association of Business Economists Convention. He finds that the mainstream’s intellectual blinders are firmly in place, and that the “fatal conceit” Friedrich Hayek wrote about in 1988 is alive and well in 2014. This audio Mises Daily is...
Libertarians — and Murray Rothbard in particular — are not pacifists, but reject the killing of innocents and other unjustified forms of military aggression, writes David Gordon. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Dianna Keiler.
Although it’s clear that they offer no economic net benefit, American cities are building taxpayer-funded sports stadiums every chance they get. Billionaire team owners and politicians benefit greatly while ordinary taxpayers do less well, writes Salmaan A. Khan. This audio Mises Daily is narrated...
How much is Obama’s war on ISIS going to cost you? You don’t want to know, writes Daniel McAdams. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Robert Hale.
Don’t expect sustained opposition to war to come from either side, writes Andrew Syrios. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
In their new book “Money”, Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames write with insight about the dangers of inflation and easy money, but ultimately, they fail to follow through on their analysis and instead make peace with monetary expansionism, writes David Gordon. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by...
