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Every long episode from misesmedia, read in minutes: the key takeaways, the chapters, and a digest of the whole conversation. Featured videos from the Mises Institute. The Mises Institute promotes Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the liberal intellectual tradition of Ludwig von Mises through research, publishing, and education.
Gold Whiplash and the Petrodollar | Mark Thornton
War in the Middle East is causing gold price volatility and threatening the petrodollar, leading to potential global price inflation and a devalued US dollar.
Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship
In this episode of the Power Market podcast, misesmedia discusses the contentious issue of birthright citizenship and its implications, particularly in light of a Supreme Court case challenging its validity, while also exploring the libertarian perspectives on naturalization and the broader implications of immigration policy. The hosts argue for a nuanced understanding of citizenship that separates it from mere immigration, highlighting the need for a more rigorous debate within libertarian circles.
Cantillon Effects and the Politics of Money Creation
Understand Cantillon Effects: new money doesn't reach everyone equally, creating winners and losers and distorting price signals and the economy.
Rothbard on Interventionism: Writing the Last Chapter of Economic Theory | Joseph T. Salerno
Explores Rothbard's praxiological method to analyze interventionism, revealing that all economic phenomena stem from either voluntary action or coercion.
On the Shoulders of Shrinking Giants | Lucas M. Engelhardt
The video argues that the economics field increasingly neglects its history of thought, leading to the repetition of old debates and the misunderstanding of ideas as novel. It proposes solutions for better knowledge dissemination.
From Vienna to Madrid: A Libertarian Vision of Scientific and Moral Truth | Jesús Huerta de Soto
Economics reveals that spontaneous order from voluntary cooperation is superior to state coercion. The Austrian school, rooted in Spanish scholasticism, emphasizes subjective value, entrepreneurship, and the impossibility of socialist calculation.
Visualizing The Boom-Bust Cycle with Roger Garrison
Roger Garrison's capital-based macroeconomics framework visualizes the boom-bust cycle using familiar diagrams, highlighting how monetary expansion distorts the time structure of production.
War, Gold, and the Fed’s Next Move | Mark Thornton
War, inflation, and debt are driving long-term trends towards higher interest rates and commodity prices, impacting global stability and the value of fiat currencies, favoring precious metals.