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Ryan McMaken looks at the little known (in America) secessionist war for self-determination fought by French counterrevolutionaries against the French Jacobins and radicals. The Marxist narrative about this conflict endures, but the separatists were right. Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at https://Mises.org/RadioRothbard Radio Rothbard mugs are available at the Mises Store. Get yours at https://...

The famed "Custer's Last Stand" at the hands of Native Americans defending their villages is a reminder of the brutality of the US war against the Plains Indians. History tells us that the "heroic" George Armstrong Custer was really the "reckless" Custer who died underestimating his foe. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/little-bighorn-anniversary-remember-custers-crimes

On this episode of Power & Market, Tho, Connor, and special guest Ryan Turnipseed pay tribute to the Maestro, consider whether Democratic Socialists are part of Greenspan's legacy, and embrace Justice Clarence Thomas as a Rothbard respecter.

The common belief is that intellectual property rights must be in place, otherwise, entrepreneurs would be reluctant to face uncertain profitability. Well, entrepreneurs already face uncertainty and act, anyway. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/intellectual-property-versus-unrealized

Democratic Socialists are winning election after election and will have a number of representatives in Congress. What will happen to our society as they continue to gain power? The answers are not encouraging. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/democratic-socialists-one-vote-one-time

The Fed Chair’s job isn’t to stabilize the economy. It’s to use prestige, technical jargon, and mind-numbing dullness to cover for the central bank’s expropriation of the American people. And Alan Greenspan excelled at that. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/greenspan-was-perfect-fed-chair-not-compliment 2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating b...

Long before modern economics, the Greek philosophers were laying the groundwork for understanding human cooperation in a social setting, helping to give birth to economic thinking. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-greek-merchants-and-philosophers-discovered-economics

Murray N. Rothbard was a system builder in the mode of Ludwig von Mises, Frank H. Knight, and F. A. Hayek. Social, economic, and political problems are intertwined and complex and require a grand theory to address them. For Rothbard, the unifying theme of social theory was liberty. Original article in The Misesian: https://mises.org/misesian/murray-n-rothbard-toward-science-liberty

The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and violent that have shaped thinking throughout the ages. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholasticism-enlightenment-liberalism

Ryan McMaken reviews a new book on the political institutions of the Middle Ages, The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West. We find that it is in the Middle Ages that we find the origins of modern notions of political freedom, representative government, political decentralization, and limits on state powers. In practice, the politics of the "Renais...

Modern historians rarely have told the truth about the history of capitalism, and especially in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It is time to set the record straight. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/lies-damn-lies-and-history-capitalism

On the day Greenspan died, this 2001 essay by Joseph T. Salerno deserves a second life. It documented what the mainstream refused to see: that Greenspan replaced economic theory with intuition, replaced analysis with data-worship, and called his guesswork a science. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/greenspans-empty-talk

Greenspan served as an especially important cog in this machine by increasing the Fed’s prerogatives within the global economy. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/alan-greenspan-dies-100

As Ryan McMaken recently pointed out, the original constitutional republic created in 1787 no longer exists. Joseph Solis-Mullen asked if the US is now in its Sixth Republic. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/sixth-republic

Progressive elites insist that we “trust our government” when they are in control, but why should we? In fact, we should no more trust government than Charlie Brown should have trusted Lucy to hold the football. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-you-shouldnt-trust-bureaucrats

Mises Editor-in-Chief Ryan McMaken explains how the new Fed chairman faces a political problem with rising prices and the fact the Fed keeps fueling the inflation fire. Be sure to follow the Loot and Lobby podcast at Mises.org/LL

Mark Thornton examines Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting and argues that despite the tough rhetoric, nothing fundamental has changed. The Federal Reserve still exists to keep government borrowing cheap, protect banks and Wall Street, and manage appearances while real inflation erodes household purchasing power. Mark explains why real interest rates are already low or negative, how Fed liquidity cont...

Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/why-stable-systems-fail-illusion-institutional-control

As technology advances, progressives believe that this time, all of their social engineering and attempts to establish socialism will finally come to fruition. They are in for a rude surprise. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/institutional-closure-why-managed-directivism-breeds-its-own-collapse

Bob sits down with Harvard Economics Professor Pol Antràs to discuss his new paper applying Böhm-Bawerk's average period of production to international trade, testing whether countries with lower interest rates tend to export goods requiring longer, more roundabout production processes. Related: Professor Antràs' Paper, "An ‘Austrian’ Model of International Specialization": Mises.org/HAP554a Bob's...

In 1952, at the height of Soviet power, Ludwig von Mises stood in the San Francisco Public Library and systematically dismantled Marx—not just his economics, but his philosophy, his theory of history, and his manipulation of language. This is the fifth of nine lectures, published in 2006 as Marxism Unmasked . Mises examines why Marxism went essentially unchallenged for decades—not because its argu...

The president has declared that he loves inflation. What economic fallacies is he likely adopting that leads to this conclusion? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-us-president-loves-inflation

While China’s economy has boomed, many people wrongly associate that success with the Chinese government’s industrial policies. Intervention has created many problems there—just as it has done elsewhere. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/chinas-industrial-policy-ambition-inefficiency-and-cautionary-tale-america

Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This reality became concrete in the Newburgh conspiracy in 1783. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-revolution-and-danger-standing-armies

While Graham Platner has become controversial because of his reckless past and violent behavior, the real objection to his being elected a US Senator should be to his reckless socialist proposals that would have disastrous consequences. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/oppose-graham-platner-his-socialism-not-just-his-outrageous-behavior