Audio Mises Wire Podcast
1) The Trump-Putin Meeting: How We Got Here
When presidents Trump and Putin meet this Friday, the political and military landscape is much different than it was when war broke out more than three years ago and Putin was willing to talk about a ...Show More
2) You Created Jobs for Robots?
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/you-created-jobs-robots
3) The Threats of AI Come from the State
Artificial Intelligence is advancing, but people often fear it for the wrong reasons. AI is not a threat in itself, but rather becomes a threat when the state uses it as one more tool to limit individ...Show More
4) Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was.Orig...Show More
5) No Matter Who Is President, Don't Trust Government Data
Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no...Show More
6) Jeff Bezos’s Yacht: Driver of Economic Activity
A yacht—like any good exchanged on the free market—represents countless value-maximizing exchanges and represents an industry that employs thousands of people to provide goods and services to others.O...Show More
7) Rothbard: The Constitution Was a Coup d'État
Rothbard took the American Revolution to be mainly libertarian in its inspiration, but he contends that the libertarian impulses of the Revolution were betrayed by a centralizing coup d...Show More
8) Lincoln's New Deal
Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal. From railroad subsidies to a national banking system, Lincoln paved the w...Show More
9) Christine Lagarde and the Privatization of Currency
EU Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has declared that anything that might lead to private currencies must be stopped. Yet, as F.A. Hayek noted, one way to confound central banks is through pri...Show More
10) Why Classical-Liberal Constitutionalism Has Failed
The old classical liberal political tactics of constitutionalism, state building, and universal suffrage have clearly failed. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-classical-liberal-...Show More