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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.
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Aug 6, 2025 • 0sec
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/cold-war-20-heats

Aug 6, 2025 • 0sec
No Matter Who Is President, Don't Trust Government Data
Whether President Trump overreacted to the recent BLS is irrelevant to the fact that government data often is inaccurate and politically suspect. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-matter-who-president-dont-trust-government-data

Aug 5, 2025 • 0sec
Anarcho-Capitalism: The Nine Most Important Objections
"Anarcho-Capitalism is good in theory, but it would never work in the real world." That is a common objection to A-C, but is it correct? What are the objections and how do we answer them. Stanisław Wójtowicz provides some answers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-capitalism-nine-most-important-objections

Aug 5, 2025 • 0sec
From Bad to Worse, Irish Rent Control
Apparently, Ireland's government has not learned any lessons from rent control disasters elsewhere. Thus, the Irish will have to learn this hard lesson and face the consequences of their economic folly.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bad-worse-irish-rent-control

Aug 5, 2025 • 0sec
Jeff Bezos’s Yacht: Driver of Economic Activity
A yacht—like any good exchanged on the free market—represents countless value-maximizing exchanges and represents an industry that employs thousands of people to provide goods and services to others.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/jeff-bezoss-yacht-driver-economic-activity

Aug 5, 2025 • 0sec
The Complexity of Historical Narratives
Understanding any era of history requires the ability to view complex things. However, people often employ simple narratives as their historical guides, which leads to wrong conclusions. The pre-war history of the American South is one that is much more complex than the narratives imply.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/complexity-historical-narratives

Aug 4, 2025 • 0sec
The Fed Says It Is "Data-Driven." But the Data Isn't Any Good.
What use is the Fed's supposed devotion to being "data-driven" when the data itself is unreliable and the Fed is basing its policies on data that is thoroughly wrong?Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fed-says-it-data-driven-data-isnt-any-good

Aug 4, 2025 • 0sec
How Does Money Acquire its Value?
Thanks for modern Keynesian economics, most people believe money gains its value from the government that issues it. Money's value, however, is historically tied to the value of the commodity from which money was derived.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-does-money-acquire-its-value

Aug 4, 2025 • 0sec
How JFK and the CIA Gave NYC Zohran Mamdani (and Obama to the US)
In an attempt to compete with the Soviet Union by bringing future elite political leaders from Africa to study in US universities, Sen. John Kennedy and the CIA inadvertently spread Marxism here and abroad. One product of this program was bringing Mamdani's Marxist father to the US.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-jfk-and-cia-gave-nyc-zohran-mamdani-and-obama-us

Aug 4, 2025 • 0sec
A Thunderously Bad Deal: Oklahoma City’s Crony Arena Tax
Oklahoma City will be building a new arena for the 2025 NBA Champions Thunder. Not surprisingly, the taxpayers will be the ones carrying most of the financial burden.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thunderously-bad-deal-oklahoma-citys-crony-arena-tax