Audio Mises Wire

The term that best describes the CEO of the "private" company Flock is "parasite" or "plutocrat" or "welfare queen" because his "business model" is simply finding ways to exploit the taxpayers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-flock-not-really-private-company

Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ethical-foundations-just-war-doctrine

Federal Reserve policy has been to expand credit out of nothing without regard for the real damage it does to the economy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/credit-out-thin-air-brings-wealth-destruction

The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/high-cost-automated-flock-camera-surveillance-state

The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court

The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices

The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty

Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba

There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state

In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution

California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment

The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment

As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/importance-teleology-understanding-economic-inequality

Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-vs-conservatives-american-and-french-revolutions

A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-french-revolution-was-not-libertarian-revolution

After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jason-arday-and-dei-system-just-wont-die

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/seen-and-unseen-cost-government-grocery-discount

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/innovation-mirage-why-deepseek-and-kimi-3-do-not-settle-question-chinese-technological-supremacy

The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/imaginary-world-fed-independence

Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/return-economic-gaslighting

Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history

Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world

In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory

Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around

Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco