Guns and Butter

President Trump‘s threat to withhold $9 billion from Harvard University is being framed in the legacy media and academia as a threat to Harvard‘s academic freedom. But there is a pertinent question no pundits are even asking: Why are taxpayers being forced to give Harvard $9 billion? Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/stop-all-federal-funding-universities The Mises Institute is gi...

President Trump has threatened to use the armed forces to go after the drug cartels in Mexico. Escalating the disastrous War on Drugs by incorporating the failed strategies of the War on Terror is a terrible idea. Read the article here: h ttps://mises.org/mises-wire/bringing-war-terror-our-southern-border-can-only-end-disaster The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rothbard’s,...

While President Trump‘s tariffs certainly are causing economic harm, they alone could not cause a recession had there not already been years of artificial credit expansion. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/theres-only-one-possible-cause-next-recession-and-it-isnt-tariffs The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rothbard’s, What Has Government Done to Our Money...

President Trump has declared today “Liberation Day,” because many of his tariffs come into force. His team is taking a gamble that either the law of supply and demand does not apply to trade or that the American public will be uncharacteristically fine with higher prices. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-are-mistake The Mises Institute is giving awa...

The leftists destroying and defacing Teslas to protest Elon Musk’s foray into American politics provide the latest example of the American far-left being easily co-opted into playing directly into the hands of the political establishment. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/far-lefts-violent-attacks-tesla-are-revealing The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rot...

While the Trump administration claims it is breaking with the policies of Joe Biden, it is continuing US attacks on the Houthis of Yemen supported by the previous president. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-adopts-democrats-terrible-yemen-policy Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

President Trump has indicated that a recession could be coming and the pundits are playing the blame game. Don‘t look to anyone in Washington for a coherent explanation for the downturn, however. Look to the Austrians instead. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-gets-blame-upcoming-recession Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

For the first time since the war began, a senior US official criticized Ukraine’s use of conscripts. This is overdue, as conscription is one of the worst tyrannies a government can impose on the people under it, and Americans have now been forced to support it for years. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/other-thing-zelensky-got-called-out Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter po...

Organized labor, which long has been the bedrock of the Democratic Party, is being courted by the MAGA Republicans trying to bolster their image with the “working classes.” But labor unions are no true friend to the working class. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-gop-organized-labor-alliance-will-not-help-working-classes Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises...

Recent comments from JD Vance and Pete Hegseth brought the relationship between the US and its allies in Europe into the spotlight. The unfortunate truth is that most of Europe is deep in a self-imposed decline. US taxpayers should not be forced to have any part of it. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-cannot-allow-declining-europe-drag-us-down Be sure to follow the Guns an...

As Elon Musk takes on federal agencies, the Washington establishment is trying to frame him as an unelected plutocrat using government to help himself and other rich people at the expense of the poor. But these labels apply much more accurately to the establishment itself. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-they-really-hate-elon-musk Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podca...

The media and political outcry that came when President Trump temporarily froze USAID and some domestic funding revealed how the political establishment uses the plight of the most vulnerable people to keep their rigged political system in place. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/needy-are-human-shields-american-regime Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

Making it harder to do business with Americans is not the way to help domestic workers, small businesses, and everyone else in middle America who has been getting ripped off under our current political system. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/tariffs-will-not-make-america-great-again Register to attend Educating for Liberty: Mises Circle in Tampa, February 22, 2025, at https://m...

Biden‘s last-minute pardon of Anthony Fauci was not done to spare an “innocent” person from abuse by dishonest politicians. Biden likely did it to prevent an investigation into Fauci’s actions and background, which could have proved damaging for the political establishment. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-joe-biden-had-pardon-anthony-fauci Register to attend Educating for L...

A major reason the wildfires in LA last week were so destructive is because of how the government intervenes in the home insurance market. Now as the industry falls apart, state officials are blaming climate change and doubling down. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-climate-change-not-causing-californias-insurance-crisis Register to attend Educating for Liberty: Mises Circle...

Politicians respond to pressure. If we want them to actually carry out the cuts they claim to stand for, it’s up to us to provide that pressure. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/politicians-wont-solve-our-spending-problem-unless-we-make-them Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

2024 was a rough year for the Washington establishment as its control over public discourse continued to collapse. While this is an excellent development, the year also previewed the adoption of a new, more fruitful establishment strategy: co-option. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/significance-2024-and-challenges-2025 Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/...

The child-like obsession with buying stuff that American society is often criticized for around Christmas is a sought-after result of our government’s monetary policy. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-problem-consumerism-governments-fault Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

The Biden administration, and the political establishment more broadly, is scrambling to ram through policies that a majority of voters just voted against. Their actions expose that their supposed commitment to democracy is a lie. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/establishments-principles-are-fake Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

Progressives are openly cheering the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. However, it was progressive legislation that created this healthcare crisis in the first place. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/progressivism-and-murder-health-insurance-ceo Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

The Washington political establishment is alarmed that President-elect Trump wants to appoint Kash Patel as FBI director, claiming that Trump’s choice will “politicize” the FBI. However, the FBI has always acted as secret police for the established political class. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fbi-has-been-political-start Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mise...

It is unlikely many of the Department of Government Efficiency’s recommendations will ever be implemented. The value of the DOGE lies in how it exposes government waste. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dont-sell-doge-short-yet Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at Mises.org/GB

In an outrageous act, lame-duck President Joe Biden gives Ukraine permission to fire US-made missiles into Russia itself. Given Russian President Putin's declaration that this attack is an act of war against Russia, Biden's actions clearly are reckless. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/president-biden-gives-green-light-act-war-against-russia Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter...

While it is often framed in the media as a battle between principled conservatives and an angry, non-ideological movement focused solely on personal loyalty to Trump, the current civil war on the American right is only the latest chapter in a much older story. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/context-behind-donald-trumps-takeover-american-right Be sure to follow the Guns and But...

Donald Trump's win last night is arguably an even bigger repudiation of the establishment than his win in 2016. And that's worth celebrating. But there is much the electorate still needs to understand about how those in power are ripping us off if we’re ever going to see an end to it. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-trumps-victory-matters-and-why-it-doesnt Be sure to follow...