Mises Institute

Mises Institute faculty and scholars explore the nature, history, and consequences of the state, and how the state has sought to control every aspect of daily life through control of money, education, markets, and more. Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, October 11–12, 2024.

Mises Institute faculty and scholars explore the nature, history, and consequences of the state, and how the state has sought to control every aspect of daily life through control of money, education, markets, and more. Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, October 11–12, 2024.

Mises Institute faculty and scholars explore the nature, history, and consequences of the state, and how the state has sought to control every aspect of daily life through control of money, education, markets, and more. Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, October 11–12, 2024.

Why do people prep? The mainstream media demeans preppers as irrational and out of touch with reality. From a scientific point of view, however, prepping is rational, efficient, and very normal. Order a free paperback copy of Murray Rothbard’s What Has Government Done to Our Money? at https://Mises.org/IssuesFree. Follow Minor Issues at https://Mises.org/MinorIssues.

Dr. Philipp Bagus explains the main ideas from his new book, Full Reserve Banking versus the Real Bills Doctrine, which defends Misesian business cycle theory from a recent critique. Bagus provides an in-depth criticism of the Real Bills Doctrine, emphasizing the importance of real savings in economic stability. He defends full reserve banking and critiques fractional reserve systems for creating money without real economic backing, leading to inflation and business cycles. Full Reserve Banking versus the Real Bills Doctrine: https://Mises.org/HAP469a Bob’s Study Guide to The Theory of Money and Credit: https://Mises.org/HAP469b Philipp Bagus, “Entrepreneurial Error Does Not Equal Market Failure” https://Mises.org/HAP469c

Ask most people why our economy is advanced, and they will likely will answer, “Technology.” Yet, technical knowledge is meaningless without capital development, and capital development is impossible without real savings. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered his ideas to promote their own collectivist ideologies. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

The Ukraine war rages on and while the media and political classes repeat the “Putin started it” mantra, the evidence points elsewhere. The US government and its European allies have provoked Russia for years, hoping it would lead to an outbreak of war. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

What does ChatGPT know about money? More than one might think. George Ford Smith asks the AI program some questions about money and gets some surprising answers. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

In the past four years, a number of monuments honoring the Confederacy have been torn down or removed. As we have seen before, however, the activism behind this movement will not stop with just taking down Confederate symbols. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.