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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.
Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/return-economic-gaslighting
Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-and-dinesh-dsouzas-revisionist-history
Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-death-cheaper-care-mutual-aid-developing-world
In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-supports-mass-migration-moroccans-spanish-territory
Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-and-statistics-economics-explains-them-not-other-way-around
Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently? Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-would-happen-if-spain-had-open-border-morocco
Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/i-spent-28-years-arresting-criminals-rothbard-was-right-all-along
No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dupes-war
After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower government, instead.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/paradise-lost-government-gained
In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/universal-principles-liberalism-and-politics-race
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