Audio Mises Wire

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/iran-everything-you-need-know-were-too-afraid-israel-lobby-ask

As the Texas floodwaters receded, politicians like Chuck Schumer twisted facts about the tragedy to score a political win. Examining what went wrong to prevent such tragedies from happening again is the right thing to do. But that involves looking at the actual facts.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/texas-floods-another-disaster-another-false-narrative

Now is the time to admit that easy-money policy and corporate bailouts—imposed in the name of increasing homeownership—has only made housing more unaffordable.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/homeownership-rate-lower-now-it-was-45-years-ago

President Trump cracked down on the latest version of the LA riots by calling in the National Guard. However, much of the violence that accompanied those riots came courtesy of government actors.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/riots-are-symptom-statist-disease

Twentieth and twenty-first century monetary history shows us how our government, step-by-step, removed the monetary gold standard and introduced their fiat paper currency dollar to fund their increasing political power.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/what-if-we-were-gold-standard

Although President Trump has claimed that tariffs will ultimately raise our standard of living, they really are taxes on consumers. Furthermore, tariffs also deny consumers the choices they want to make.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/tariffs-destroy-consumer-choice

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/israels-nuclear-arsenal-controversial-reality

Has anyone besides Murray Rothbard made a compelling case for state-free anarchy? In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon extols Libertarian Anarchy by Gerard Casey, which he says provides excellent arguments for doing away with the state.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/excellent-casey-anarchism

Governments have so corrupted money that we forget that sound money, by providing both fungibility and privacy, has been a defense against overreaching governments. While sound money is in the interests of citizens, governments have managed to destroy it.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/privacy-and-fungibility-forgotten-virtues-sound-money

Modern historians depend heavily upon sweeping narratives and their take on the US War of Secession is no exception. Yet, the use of methodological individualism allows one to avoid sweeping judgments like claiming the Confederacy was founded upon belief in white supremacy.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/methodological-individualism-historical-analysis-0