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Audio recordings of Mises Wire articles, offering contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.
Mainstream economics does a disservice when students are taught that money is a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account without explaining why and how money came to function in those categories. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mainstream-economics-money-medium-exchange-unit-account-and-store-value
The California Energy Commission is mandating that starting in 2029, California drivers must purchase environmentally approved tires that are less safe than current tires. The results are predictable: higher costs for drivers and more fatal accidents. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/californias-new-tire-rule-will-result-higher-costs-and-more-highway-deaths
No, covid was not the exception to the rule that liberty comes first. Just because the CDC insisted we give up our freedom for what turned out to be a false security did not justify the government’s heavy-handed approach, something that libertarians should have understood all along. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/covid-was-praxeological-test-too-many-libertarians-failed
The drive for military conscription has always depended upon the use of propaganda, since governments cannot make an honest and genuine case for the wars they start. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-war-propaganda-justifies-conscription-unjust-wars
We are told that Americans live under a state that claims “consent of the governed,” but when does the government seek our consent for anything? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-consent-governed-later
Twenty-five years after 9/11, many seek to rehabilitate the War on Terror by appealing to the horror of 9/11, the right to respond, and the ideal of fighting terrorism. Many now demand that we judge an idealized “War on Terror” by its intentions rather than the war that actually occurred. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/911-and-idealized-war-terror
Both Brazil and the US had slavery in the 1800s, but the US economy flourished while Brazil’s languished. If slavery was the engine for US economic growth, as leftists claim, then why didn’t Brazil's economy match that of the US? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/slavery-was-not-difference-how-legal-innovations-made-america-superpower-while-brazil-stagnated
The latest reminder of the Federal Reserve's record of failure, which now extends longer than five years, comes with the most recent inflation measure. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/price-inflation-has-been-above-two-percent-target-65-months-row
In the name of “saving” college sports, Congress steps well past its bounds to micromanage the NCAA. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/congress-tries-replace-anarcho-tyranny-college-sports-its-own-brand-tyranny
Lenin wrote that the capitalists would provide the rope by which they would hang themselves. That certainly seems to be the case with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which received strong financial help from the center of crony capitalism itself: Wall Street. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/crony-capitalists-who-financed-bolshevik-revolution
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