Audio Mises Wire Podcast
1) Why Are Houses So Expensive? It's Deliberate Government Policy
Historically, it has been very poor manners in Washington to admit that keeping home prices high is a deliberate policy. High prices are not the "unintended consequence" of good intentions. Origi...Show More
2) Was Scrooge the Victim in A Christmas Carol?
Scrooge was never mistreated by his nephew, by Cratchit, or by those seeking charitable donations. Scrooge was always free to refuse them all.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/was-scrooge...Show More
3) Home Prices and Sales Fall. Can Sellers Count on Lower Interest Rates?
With employment fundamentals so weak, the real way to increase home sales is to cut prices further. That, of course, is not what sellers want to hear. Original article: https://mises.org/power-ma...Show More
4) Inflation and the Intergenerational Housing Rivalry
Instead of market competition, inflation forces young and old into rivalrous competition for housing.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-intergenerational-housing-rivalry
5) November's Weak Jobs Report Pushes the Fed Toward More Monetary Stimulus
If employment reports continue to show growing economic stagnation, calls for more monetary inflation and government spending will only grow.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/novembers-we...Show More
6) Why Hayek Rejected Merit-Based Equality
In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood that in a free society, inequality is ...Show More
7) Risk, Uncertainty, Profits, and Modern Portfolio Theory
While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with risk management.Origina...Show More
8) Bursting the Bubble that Was FDR
David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing. Americans should know how FDR’s presidency led...Show More
9) Why Banning Hate Speech Is Evil
Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-ban...Show More
10) The Unjustified Conflict: Grant’s Memoirs on the Mexican-American War
The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the li...Show More