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On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the first FOMC meeting under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. Out? Forward Guidance. In? Task forces! What should we take away from Warsh's first time addressing the financial press, and will his tenure be an improvement from the past, or present new dangers to the public?

Names for historical periods like "Renaissance" and "Enlightenment" did not descend to us out of the heavens. Historians and propagandists of centuries past created these names, often for political purposes.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/middle-ages-enlightenment-and-propaganda

Because government monetary authorities have been interfering with interest rates for decades, investors have no more confidence in the bond markets, as they expect more interference and more unpredictability. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bond-market-sell-welcome-titanic-effect

Once we look beyond a small shift in rhetoric and emphasis, there is, so far, no reason to believe that the Fed is headed toward anything other than business as usual.  Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/fed-holds-interest-rate-steady-and-warsh-buys-time-new-task-force-scheme

Sure, the earnings average was up year over year, but prices increased more than earnings did. In fact, price inflation hit a 38-month high in May. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-wages-fell-second-month-price-inflation-surged

Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire has triggered a familiar round of progressive outrage. But the imprecise focus on wealth distribution obscures the real issue: how much of modern wealth is acquired through politics rather than production. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/musk-trillionaire-panic-distraction 2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and...

Economists like Harold Demsetz and Ronald Coase based their property rights views on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard based his on justice. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-justice-mattered-rothbard

When inflation surges, the first thing on the government's agenda is for the Federal Reserve to try to force up interest rates. However, as Frank Shostak writes, that might not be the best strategy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/raising-interest-rates-does-not-counter-inflation

Prediction markets, while obviously imperfect, still work well because people voluntarily put their money where their beliefs are. Naturally, the government wants to shut them down. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fear-signal-why-state-urgently-wants-bind-prediction-markets

Unfortunately, the Pope does not understand the role that monetary inflation plays in fueling AI's excesses. If he did, he might lead a necessary anti-AI spiritual alliance for sound money.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/sound-money-artificial-intelligence-and-pope

In spite of repeated claims from the Federal Reserve that monetary policy is at least moderately restrictive, there is no sign of any slowing in money-supply growth. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/april-money-supply-growth-hit-49-month-high-and-prices-soared

Regulatory systems are infamous for creating “traps” in seem to be impervious to reform. Regulators seek to “drain the swamp,” but, instead, find themselves up to their necks in alligators. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/moloch-regulatory-state

Bob sits down with economists Alexander Salter and Joshua Hendrickson to discuss their new paper arguing that the standard Austrian critique of the Fed while correct, is fundamentally incomplete. They argue that the Fed's actual institutional role is to backstop U.S. dollar hegemony: the deliberately constructed post-Bretton Woods system in which the dollar serves as the world's reserve currency,...

On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton opens with a review of John Mearsheimer’s Why Do Politicians Lie?, focusing on strategic deception in international affairs, especially in the Middle East, Israel, Vietnam, Iraq, and America’s own constitutional history. Mark argues that political lies are not merely moral failures; they are tools for empire, war, and state expansion. On Side B, Thorn...

Before the Nat Turner Rebellion and the rise of militant abolitionism in the North, there were more anti-slavery societies in the South than in the northern states. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/abolitionist-movement-antebellum-south

Egalitarian interpreters of the Declaration not only empower the centralized state but promote a view of “equality” that shares a common ethical error with slavery itself—that legal castes of humans may be created and enforced against the liberty of others. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-independence-versus-egalitarianism

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at the debate over the latest National Defense Authorization Act.

Not surprisingly, the present government is rapidly politicizing artificial intelligence. We don’t have to look far for disastrous results. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-creative-destruction-and-politicization-economic-change

The covid lockdowns were useless for public health, but they vastly strengthened government’s stranglehold over our lives. We cannot allow this to happen again. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/potential-lockdowns-polarization-and-what-should-be-done

Despite attempts to whitewash its past, progressivism was a poisonous ideology from the beginning. One of its worst legacies is eugenics, which not only created social strife in the US, but also was exported to Germany, where the Nazis embraced it. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-american-progressives-influenced-hitler

Contrary to the myth that kings routinely ruled over cowed subordinates by "divine right" in the Middle Ages, civil governments of the period faced countless institutional obstacles to the exercise of power. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/medieval-europeans-paved-way-freedom-west

Bob sits down with economist Emmanuel Maggiori to discuss his new book If You Can Just Print Money, Why Do I Pay Taxes?, a carefully researched, point-by-point critique of Modern Monetary Theory that engages MMT on its own terms, drawing on the MMTers' own textbook, papers, and responses to critics. Related: If You Can Just Print Money, Why Do I Pay Taxes?: Mises.org/HAP552a Bob's Mises...

The current free-for-all in Division I NCAA sports is not the product of a free market, but rather is chaos being imposed by the courts and government agencies.  Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-tyranny-killing-college-sports

As AI continues to grow, we are told to fear private transactions and to depend on the state for safety and security. The reality is that we need to fear the state and what it will do to us as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/were-freaking-doomed-without-freedom-state-rule

Mark Thornton replays his Rothbard University lecture on government spending and taxation, using Rothbard’s framework of binary intervention to overturn the standard civics-story that taxes are “the cost” of government and spending is “the benefit.” Mark argues both are economically destructive and distortionary, and that treating them as neutral is a category mistake. Drawing on John C. Calhoun’s...