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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0" xml:base="https://mises.org/"> <channel> <title>Mises Institute</title> <link>https://mises.org/</link> <description><![CDATA[]]></description> <language>en</language> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 25 12:01:47 -0500</pubDate><item> <title>The Gold-Silver Ratio</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/gold-silver-ratio </link> <description> Mark Thornton digs into the gold-silver ratio—its wild swings, its history, and what it might mean for investors and the world at large. </description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 01:02:28 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark Thornton</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/gold-silver-ratio </guid> </item><item> <title>Why Elon Musk Is Right: The Case Against Subsidizing Amtrak</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-elon-musk-right-case-against-subsidizing-amtrak </link> <description> Amtrak is always on the verge of reviving intercity rail traffic in the US, or at least that is what politicians want us to believe. The truth is that the case for defunding Amtrak has never been stronger. </description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 12:01:46 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>J.D. Wong</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-elon-musk-right-case-against-subsidizing-amtrak </guid> </item><item> <title>The Political Business Cycle 50 Years Later</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/political-business-cycle-50-years-later </link> <description> William Nordhaus coined the term “Political Business Cycle” a half-century ago. The idea was that government authorities, particularly the central bank, would manipulate the economy to correspond with election cycles, a practice that continues to this day. </description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 12:01:47 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dale Steinreich</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/political-business-cycle-50-years-later </guid> </item><item> <title>The Spanish Blackout Is a Warning to the World</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/spanish-blackout-warning-world </link> <description> The blackout in Spain was not caused by a cyberattack but by the worst possible attack—that of politicians against their own citizens. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 11:01:46 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Daniel Lacalle</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/spanish-blackout-warning-world </guid> </item><item> <title>Federal Judge Sets Free Op-Ed Writer</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/federal-judge-sets-free-op-ed-writer </link> <description> Federal prosecutors were not able to produce any evidence at all other than an op-ed Ozturk wrote. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 01:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>James Bovard</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/federal-judge-sets-free-op-ed-writer </guid> </item><item> <title>Enslavement of Native Americans in the Caribbean</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/enslavement-native-americans-caribbean </link> <description> The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 09:02:14 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Lipton Matthews</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/enslavement-native-americans-caribbean </guid> </item><item> <title>Truth or Consequences</title> <link>https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/truth-or-consequences </link> <description> This week on Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Price of Our Values by Augustin Landier and David Thesmar. While the authors claim that economists often substitute utilitarianism for moral values, they dismiss any idea of objective standards for morality. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 06:02:34 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/truth-or-consequences </guid> </item><item> <title>Only Congress, Not the President, Can Initiate War</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/only-congress-not-president-can-initiate-war </link> <description> Edwin S. Corwin in The President: Office and Powers, 1878-1957 has argued that the Constitution is a tussle for control between the executive and legislature. It is, he claims, “an invitation to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy.” </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 02:03:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/only-congress-not-president-can-initiate-war </guid> </item><item> <title>P.T. Bauer’s Reminders on Foreign Aid</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/pt-bauers-reminders-foreign-aid </link> <description> The late P.T. Bauer provided much insight into the issue of the so-called First World sending aid to Third World nations in the name of “development.” Bauer demonstrated conclusively that such donations actually impede economic growth in poor nations. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 12:02:30 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joshua Mawhorter</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/pt-bauers-reminders-foreign-aid </guid> </item><item> <title>California's Bullet-Train Delusion</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/californias-bullet-train-delusion </link> <description> California economist and resident/victim William Anderson joins us to talk about the absurdity of California's bullet train plan, and how it ignores economic realities. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 03:30:05 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan McMaken, William P. Anderson</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/californias-bullet-train-delusion </guid> </item><item> <title>The Fed Leaves Fed Funds Rate at 4.5% as Economic Storm Clouds Gather</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/fed-leaves-fed-funds-rate-45-economic-storm-clouds-gather </link> <description> The Fed is now hemmed in by a rising risk of stagflation. It doesn‘t know where the economy is headed, or is unwilling to take a position. At this point, “hope for the best” is Fed policy. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan McMaken</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/fed-leaves-fed-funds-rate-45-economic-storm-clouds-gather </guid> </item><item> <title>Will Trump Follow Nixon’s IRS Road to Ruin?</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/will-trump-follow-nixons-irs-road-ruin </link> <description> Like presidents before him, Donald Trump is using the IRS as a weapon against organizations he doesn‘t like. Richard Nixon did the same thing—and it helped bring down his presidency. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 09:02:18 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>James Bovard</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/will-trump-follow-nixons-irs-road-ruin </guid> </item><item> <title>Woke-Baiting and the New Left-Wing Smear Bund</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/woke-baiting-and-new-left-wing-smear-bund </link> <description> Lately, James Lindsay has burned much of his credibility in attacking largely non-interventionist right-wingers as "Woke Right." </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 09:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/woke-baiting-and-new-left-wing-smear-bund </guid> </item><item> <title>Leo XIV elected Pope (fmr. Cardinal Robert Prevost)</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/leo-xiv-elected-pope-fmr-cardinal-robert-prevost </link> <description> Considered centrist (by modern standards), not outspoken on political issues. Born American, but has been a Peruvian bishop for the past 11 years and is deeply connected to Latin America. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/leo-xiv-elected-pope-fmr-cardinal-robert-prevost </guid> </item><item> <title>Does Wealth Inequality Cause Degradation?</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/does-wealth-inequality-cause-degradation </link> <description> In the name of fighting income inequality, pundits in the UK and US are calling for wealth taxes as magic bullets that will restore an imaginary state of income equality that never existed in the first place. It is time to abandon this idea for good. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 06:02:30 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Owen Ashworth</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/does-wealth-inequality-cause-degradation </guid> </item><item> <title>Restaurant Brands earnings miss as consumers spend less on fast food</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/restaurant-brands-earnings-miss-consumers-spend-less-fast-food </link> <description> The bottom 80% of America is in recession and is starting to cut back on extra spending such as fast food. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 06:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/restaurant-brands-earnings-miss-consumers-spend-less-fast-food </guid> </item><item> <title>Autos Used vehicle pricing barometer jumps to highest level since 2023 amid auto tariffs</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/autos-used-vehicle-pricing-barometer-jumps-highest-level-2023-amid-auto-tariffs </link> <description> To be sure there are probably two factors at work here. One is tariffs and the other is the fact that auto loan delinquencies are rising and people need cheaper cars. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 04:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/autos-used-vehicle-pricing-barometer-jumps-highest-level-2023-amid-auto-tariffs </guid> </item><item> <title>Some Straight Talk to the Anti-Free Traders</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/some-straight-talk-anti-free-traders </link> <description> Oh, I know, you aren’t really against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field.” Demanding a level playing field for international trade is a complete waste of time. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 02:02:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick Barron</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/some-straight-talk-anti-free-traders </guid> </item><item> <title>Gov. Newsom Appeals to the Sunk Cost Fallacy to Promote the Failed Bullet Train</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/gov-newsom-appeals-sunk-cost-fallacy-promote-failed-bullet-train </link> <description> In the world of private enterprise, business owners pay attention to costs already incurred that cannot be recovered, also known as “sunk costs.” Government officials, however, see sunk costs as an incentive to promote public projects where costs clearly outweigh benefits. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 12:02:25 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>William L. Anderson</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/gov-newsom-appeals-sunk-cost-fallacy-promote-failed-bullet-train </guid> </item><item> <title>Real ID Is Not About Keeping You Safe</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/real-id-not-about-keeping-you-safe </link> <description> Real ID is the latest example of the government using 9/11 as an excuse to grab more power. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 08:08:08 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Connor O'Keeffe</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/real-id-not-about-keeping-you-safe </guid> </item><item> <title>MMT Is Wrong about the History of the Origins of Money</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-wrong-about-history-origins-money </link> <description> Not only are Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) cultists dishonest about the role of money, they also are dishonest about money‘s history. By taking issue with Carl Menger‘s historical version, they expose their own ignorance of how money came about. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 09:02:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jonathan Newman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-wrong-about-history-origins-money </guid> </item><item> <title>Fed keeps Fed Funds rate unchanged. </title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/fed-keeps-fed-funds-rate-unchanged </link> <description> "the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent." Click here for post-FOMC press conference. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/fed-keeps-fed-funds-rate-unchanged </guid> </item><item> <title>Inflation: Looking Beyond Aggregates</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-looking-beyond-aggregates </link> <description> Mainstream economists define inflation as the increase in an imaginary “price level” that is relatively neutral in its effects. Austrian economists, however, know better, as they realize that the effects of inflating the money supply are anything but neutral. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 06:03:08 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joe Chavez</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-looking-beyond-aggregates </guid> </item><item> <title>Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of Political Divide</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/zero-sum-thinking-and-roots-political-divide </link> <description> Free markets and free minds must push back against the mercantilist and populist policies associated with current Keynesians; we must draw upon the foundational ideas of economists such as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Israel Kirzner, and Murray Rothbard. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 02:02:19 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Justin M. Ptak</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/zero-sum-thinking-and-roots-political-divide </guid> </item><item> <title>Real ID Is Not About Keeping You Safe</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-id-not-about-keeping-you-safe </link> <description> With the deadline for obtaining the federal government‘s Real ID technically upon us, it‘s important to understand that this is not an irritating but necessary program to keep Americans safe. It's the latest example of the government using 9/11 as an excuse to grab more power. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 12:02:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Connor O'Keeffe</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-id-not-about-keeping-you-safe </guid> </item><item> <title>DiLorenzo on the Bitcoin Standard Podcast</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/dilorenzo-bitcoin-standard-podcast </link> <description> President of the Mises Institute Tom DiLorenzo joins Saifedean Ammous on The Bitcoin Standard Podcast to discuss his work on US history and economics, and the increasing influence of the Mises Institute and Austrian school economics. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 04:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Thomas J. DiLorenzo</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/dilorenzo-bitcoin-standard-podcast </guid> </item><item> <title>The Magic Coin</title> <link>https://mises.org/library/book/magic-coin </link> <description> This slim book engagingly written encapsulates the basic lessons of money and of how it is deformed by government and central banking in a magical story that will charm and enlighten young readers. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 01:30:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jonathan Newman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/library/book/magic-coin </guid> </item><item> <title>The Fallacy of Optimal Tariffs</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-optimal-tariffs </link> <description> Mainstream economists have been obsessed with finding “optimal” tax rates, and Nicholas Kaldor‘s 1940 formalization of the “optimal” tariff is no exception. Austrian economists, however, know that there is no such thing as an “optimal” tax, given the harm taxation causes. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 09:02:16 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Kristoffer Mousten Hansen</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-optimal-tariffs </guid> </item><item> <title>Alberta says it could vote on separation from Canada next year </title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/alberta-says-it-could-vote-separation-canada-next-year </link> <description> Unlike the US, Canada (at least on paper) recognizes a legal right to secession. Alberta gov't now says it may vote on secession next year. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/alberta-says-it-could-vote-separation-canada-next-year </guid> </item><item> <title>Trump keeps claiming gas prices are at $1.98 per gallon. </title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/trump-keeps-claiming-gas-prices-are-198-gallon </link> <description> One of Trump's more bizarre claims recently is that gasoline now costs less than $2 per gallon. As every casual observer knows, the price is closer to $3. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/trump-keeps-claiming-gas-prices-are-198-gallon </guid> </item><item> <title>Food stamps have always been a subsidy for agriculture and food special interests</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/food-stamps-have-always-been-subsidy-agriculture-and-food-special-interests </link> <description> The government loads $328 billion of your tax care money on the EBT cards for SNAP recipients, and they go into the stores and they buy Coca Cola products, Frito Lay products, Pepsi products. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/food-stamps-have-always-been-subsidy-agriculture-and-food-special-interests </guid> </item><item> <title>Coming May 15-17: 9th Austrian Economics Meeting Europe</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/coming-may-15-17-9th-austrian-economics-meeting-europe </link> <description><![CDATA[]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mises Institute</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/coming-may-15-17-9th-austrian-economics-meeting-europe </guid> </item><item> <title>David Hume’s Insights Explain America’s Economic Decline</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/david-humes-insights-explain-americas-economic-decline </link> <description> The Trump White House has enacted tariffs in the belief that other countries are “cheating” by enacting tariffs against US goods and “manipulating” their currencies. However, with the US dollar being the world's reserve currency, the US has engaged in dollar manipulation through inflation. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 06:02:20 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick Barron</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/david-humes-insights-explain-americas-economic-decline </guid> </item><item> <title>India is now at war with Pakistan. </title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/india-now-war-pakistan </link> <description> India claims it is attacking "terrorist infrastructure." Both countries have nuclear weapons. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 05:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/india-now-war-pakistan </guid> </item><item> <title>Google’s Antitrust Breakup Trial: Government Overreach</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/googles-antitrust-breakup-trial-government-overreach </link> <description> The antitrust lawsuit against Google by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks to dismantle the tech giant on the grounds that it has “monopolized the internet search market.” This is nothing but an overreach that shatters the very pillars of a free and competitive marketplace. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 02:02:25 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Conor Sanderson</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/googles-antitrust-breakup-trial-government-overreach </guid> </item><item> <title>Understanding The Importance of Justice</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/understanding-importance-justice </link> <description> When people speak of “social justice,” they are not speaking of justice in any historical form but rather an imaginary state of affairs in which the state enforces a progressive view of equality. F.A. Hayek wrote that “social justice” is “wholly devoid of meaning or content.” </description> <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 12:02:30 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Wanjiru Njoya</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/understanding-importance-justice </guid> </item><item> <title>The Method Behind Real Economic Thinking</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/method-behind-real-economic-thinking </link> <description> Jonathan Newman joins Bob Murphy to explore what economics really is, why it matters, and how the revamped Mises Academy is helping teach it the right way. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 11:00:32 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robert P. Murphy, Jonathan Newman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/method-behind-real-economic-thinking </guid> </item><item> <title>The Spanish Blackout Shows Why the Green Dream Is Unsustainable</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/spanish-blackout-shows-why-green-dream-unsustainable </link> <description> Although government officials and true believers in “green energy” are denying it, the collapse of the electric grid in Spain and Portugal proves that reliance on renewables for electric production is doomed to failure. Whether people listen is another story. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 09:02:35 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joakim Book</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/spanish-blackout-shows-why-green-dream-unsustainable </guid> </item><item> <title>US Trade Account Balance and the Imposition of Tariffs</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-trade-account-balance-and-imposition-tariffs </link> <description> Although politicians, pundits, and the media claim that a trade deficit is harmful to a country, the reality is much different. In a free economy, individuals interact with each other in mutually-beneficial exchanges. As Murray Rothbard noted, free exchanges do not produce winners and losers. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 06:02:22 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Frank Shostak</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-trade-account-balance-and-imposition-tariffs </guid> </item><item> <title>The Inspiring Legacy of Anti-War Conservatism</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/inspiring-legacy-anti-war-conservatism </link> <description> Brandan Buck explores how some conservative America Firsters have long challenged U.S. interventionism in the Middle East and questioned the alliance with Israel. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 03:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/inspiring-legacy-anti-war-conservatism </guid> </item><item> <title>A Taxing Cut for IRS: Free Tax Filing Option to be Ended</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/taxing-cut-irs-free-tax-filing-option-be-ended </link> <description> The Trump administration announced that the IRS will end its free Direct File (DF) program that taxpayers have used on the IRS website to file their own tax returns. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 02:02:22 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jane L. Johnson</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/taxing-cut-irs-free-tax-filing-option-be-ended </guid> </item><item> <title>Reclaiming Our Sovereignty from State Power</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/reclaiming-our-sovereignty-state-power </link> <description> Have Americans forgotten how to be free? When warfare erupted between American colonists and the British government, the colonists believed that they had God-given rights that protected them against state power. Would that Americans today believed the same thing. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 12:02:54 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>George Ford Smith</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/reclaiming-our-sovereignty-state-power </guid> </item><item> <title>How Would Anarchy Work? </title> <link>https://mises.org/articles-interest/how-would-anarchy-work </link> <description> We eliminate the main problem that plagued "limited government": we are relying on the government — a monopoly agency — to police itself. </description> <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 06:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/articles-interest/how-would-anarchy-work </guid> </item><item> <title>Real Genius</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/real-genius </link> <description> Cinephiles are mourning the death of Val Kilmer, who is remembered for many movies, but we ought also to be remembered for his performance in the underrated anti-war classic, Real Genius. </description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 02:02:59 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Baker</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/real-genius </guid> </item><item> <title>Powell, Trump, and the Austrian Business Cycle Time Bomb</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/powell-trump-and-austrian-business-cycle-time-bomb </link> <description> Mark Thornton cuts through the noise to explore the real economic threats facing America. </description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 01:01:49 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark Thornton</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/powell-trump-and-austrian-business-cycle-time-bomb </guid> </item><item> <title>Make-Believe Equality Is Unattainable, Costly, and Harmful</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/make-believe-equality-unattainable-costly-and-harmful </link> <description> When intellectuals and political elites call for equality, they usually mean creating social conditions that are make believe at best and harmful at worst. Their latest hustle is “equity,” which means the state should guarantee equal outcomes for everyone. </description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 12:02:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Wanjiru Njoya</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/make-believe-equality-unattainable-costly-and-harmful </guid> </item><item> <title>A Moral Argument for Free Trade</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/moral-argument-free-trade </link> <description> Murray Rothbard believed that the right to engage in voluntary exchange has long been understood as a natural right, not just a good, practical idea. Tariffs and other trade barriers violate that right. </description> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 12:02:25 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matthew Williams</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/moral-argument-free-trade </guid> </item><item> <title>Want to Pay Down the National Debt? First, Cut Federal Spending</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/loot-and-lobby/want-pay-down-national-debt-first-cut-federal-spending </link> <description> If a politician claims that he cares about the national debt, but then won't make big cuts to current federal spending, he's either a liar or a fool. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 01:13:02 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan McMaken</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/loot-and-lobby/want-pay-down-national-debt-first-cut-federal-spending </guid> </item><item> <title>Cracked Shells: Why Egg Prices Are High</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/cracked-shells-why-egg-prices-are-high </link> <description> As egg prices rise, the usual progressive suspects claim it is due to monopoly power by egg producers, calling for government intervention. However, the real reason is government intervention itself. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 09:02:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Craig Duddy</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/cracked-shells-why-egg-prices-are-high </guid> </item><item> <title>Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation, Monopoly, or Disarmament? </title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/nuclear-weapons-proliferation-monopoly-or-disarmament </link> <description> A past article, presenting a “libertarian” viewpoint of nuclear weapons, has two choices, but pointedly leaves out a third choice: nuclear disarmament. According to Murray Rothbard, disarmament is the only true moral choice and also the most practical. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 09:02:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick Tinsley</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/nuclear-weapons-proliferation-monopoly-or-disarmament </guid> </item><item> <title>Accreditation: The Cartel on Higher Education</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/accreditation-cartel-higher-education </link> <description> The Department of Education has the role of selecting and authorizing private accrediting agencies which, in turn, are enabled to give or not give accreditation. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 08:02:29 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan Wardle</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/accreditation-cartel-higher-education </guid> </item><item> <title>Murphy + Spitznagel: Where MAGA Is Right—and Wrong—on Trade Deficits</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/murphy-spitznagel-where-maga-right-and-wrong-trade-deficits </link> <description> Robert P. Murphy and Mark Spitznagel co-author this examination of how to look at the trade deficit. (paywalled) </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/murphy-spitznagel-where-maga-right-and-wrong-trade-deficits </guid> </item><item> <title>Hip, Hype, Hurrah!</title> <link>https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/hip-hype-hurrah </link> <description> In this edition of Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Arnold Schelsky‘s The Hype Cycle and finds some worthy insights into things that modern culture has hyped, such as climate change. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 06:02:41 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/hip-hype-hurrah </guid> </item><item> <title>The Not-So-Marginalized Miner</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/not-so-marginalized-miner </link> <description> Though stories of the masses are valuable and insightful, the lives of magnates of industry, and the lesser magnates—such as the owner of the mine where my grandfather labored—also need to be told. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 06:02:17 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jim Fedako</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/not-so-marginalized-miner </guid> </item><item> <title>Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israeli Brutality</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/genocides-back-trump-backed-israeli-brutality </link> <description><![CDATA[]]></description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 04:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ilana Mercer</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/genocides-back-trump-backed-israeli-brutality </guid> </item><item> <title>Tariffs Did Not Make America Great and Won’t Make America Great Again</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/tariffs-did-not-make-america-great-and-wont-make-america-great-again </link> <description> Trump has even dubbed himself “a Tariff Man.” This is nothing new, however, his frequent claims regarding the US economy during the Gilded Age need scrutiny. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 12:01:48 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joshua Mawhorter</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/tariffs-did-not-make-america-great-and-wont-make-america-great-again </guid> </item><item> <title>Trump's First 100 Days: The Good and the Bad </title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/trumps-first-100-days-good-and-bad </link> <description> Historian Chris Calton joins Ryan McMaken to discuss both the upsides and the downsides of Trump's first 100 days. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 03:30:05 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan McMaken, Chris Calton</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothbard/trumps-first-100-days-good-and-bad </guid> </item><item> <title>All Jobs Are Not Created Equal</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/all-jobs-are-not-created-equal </link> <description> When politicians claim they are “creating jobs,” they usually mean hiring people for tax-funded government employment. Jobs in private enterprise, however, help to create real wealth and contribute to economic growth and higher living standards. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 09:02:19 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Daniel Kowalski</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/all-jobs-are-not-created-equal </guid> </item><item> <title>Libertarian Road Management: Pricing and Street Design</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/libertarian-road-management-pricing-and-street-design </link> <description> In a libertarian world, the streets and highways would no longer be state-owned, but instead managed by private entities such as companies and cooperatives. How might this work? </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 08:02:48 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mathias Kuehlcke</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/libertarian-road-management-pricing-and-street-design </guid> </item><item> <title>The Free Market and Catholic Social Teaching</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/free-market-and-catholic-social-teaching </link> <description> If we accept the Peronist views of the late pontiff, we obviously cannot support the marketplace. But fortunately, there is a better option available to us. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/free-market-and-catholic-social-teaching </guid> </item><item> <title>Neocon Mike Waltz removed from White House</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/neocon-mike-waltz-removed-white-house </link> <description> A former toadie to Dick Cheney, sources say Waltz will soon be fired from his job as Trump's National Security Adviser. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 05:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/neocon-mike-waltz-removed-white-house </guid> </item><item> <title>Trump signs new mineral deal with Ukraine</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/trump-signs-new-mineral-deal-ukraine </link> <description> SecDef says this shows there is "no daylight" between the US and Ukraine. For those wanting the US out of Ukraine, this moves the US in the wrong direction. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 04:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/trump-signs-new-mineral-deal-ukraine </guid> </item><item> <title>Capitalism’s Biggest Threat Isn’t Inequality—It’s Artificial Entrepreneurs</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/capitalisms-biggest-threat-isnt-inequality-its-artificial-entrepreneurs </link> <description> In any society, there are winners. But how do they win? Successful entrepreneurs innovate, take risks, and satisfy consumer needs in a competitive marketplace. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 02:02:23 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alexis Sémanne</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/capitalisms-biggest-threat-isnt-inequality-its-artificial-entrepreneurs </guid> </item><item> <title>The California Bullet Train Is a Good Lesson in Political Deception</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/california-bullet-train-good-lesson-political-deception </link> <description> The California Bullet Train has become the Eternal Project That Won‘t Go Away no matter how big a failure it has become. Political inertia is a powerful force and California politicians have used it to deceive voters and taxpayers, who will face a reckoning. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 12:02:26 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>William L. Anderson</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/california-bullet-train-good-lesson-political-deception </guid> </item><item> <title>The Trump Administration Is Not Serious About Ending Endless Wars</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/trump-administration-not-serious-about-ending-endless-wars </link> <description> The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have made it clear that those who want the foreign policy status quo to continue are serious about doing what it takes to accomplish their goals, while those who want to change it are not. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:09:01 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Connor O'Keeffe</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/trump-administration-not-serious-about-ending-endless-wars </guid> </item><item> <title>The Misesian, vol. 2, no. 2, 2025</title> <link>https://mises.org/library/periodical/misesian-vol-2-no-2-2025 </link> <description> The state, born at the dawn of the modern age for the needs of pacification, to protect people, has in reality become, as Rothbard writes in For a New Liberty, “the supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public.” </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/library/periodical/misesian-vol-2-no-2-2025 </guid> </item><item> <title>From the Editor—March / April 2025</title> <link>https://mises.org/misesian/editor-march-april-2025 </link> <description> The state is not necessary for human development or governance. It is important that advocates of freedom and free markets publish scholarship that builds on this truly libertarian, or laissez-faire, view of the state. In this issue of The Misesian, Roberta Modugno does just that. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan McMaken</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/misesian/editor-march-april-2025 </guid> </item><item> <title>Tariff fallout hits port traffic in a big way</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/tariff-fallout-hits-port-traffic-big-way </link> <description> Even if this global trade war is ended tomorrow, it will take a minimum of 30 to 55 days, but more likely at 7-9 months, to normalize supply chains. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/tariff-fallout-hits-port-traffic-big-way </guid> </item><item> <title>Are People in Mississippi Really Richer Than People in Europe?</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/are-people-mississippi-really-richer-people-europe </link> <description> The average U.S. disposable income for 2022 was $51,147, almost $10,000 higher than the top European country, Luxembourg, at $44,773, according to World Population Review. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/are-people-mississippi-really-richer-people-europe </guid> </item><item> <title>The Fall of Saigon 50 Years Later</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/fall-saigon-50-years-later </link> <description> South Vietnam ceased to exist as a separate country 50 years ago. What followed was an object lesson on the failures of socialism, as Marxist ideology turned Vietnam into one of the world's poorest countries. Vietnam‘s “second revolution” was successfully embracing a market economy. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:02:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Stephen Anderson</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/fall-saigon-50-years-later </guid> </item><item> <title>U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-economy-shrank-03-first-quarter </link> <description> This is really the "Biden stagnation" but Trump has made it his own by raising taxes and stifling international trade. So, now Trump owns it. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-economy-shrank-03-first-quarter </guid> </item><item> <title>Donald Trump Is No Grover Cleveland</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/donald-trump-no-grover-cleveland </link> <description> Grover Cleveland has been called “the last good Democrat,” “the last Jeffersonian,” and “the last good president from a classical-liberal perspective.” </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laurence M. Vance</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/donald-trump-no-grover-cleveland </guid> </item><item> <title>The Trump Administration Is Not Serious About Ending Endless Wars</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-administration-not-serious-about-ending-endless-wars </link> <description> The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have made it clear that those who want the foreign policy status quo to continue are serious about doing what it takes to accomplish their goals, while those who want to change it are not. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:03:06 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Connor O'Keeffe</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-administration-not-serious-about-ending-endless-wars </guid> </item><item> <title>Freedom in One Lesson: The Best of Leonard Read</title> <link>https://mises.org/library/book/freedom-one-lesson-best-leonard-read </link> <description> Freedom in One Lesson is an attempt to assemble an extensive collection of Leonard Read's best, most powerful sustained arguments on behalf of liberty. Leonard Read's goal was to plant the seeds of liberty, so society and individuals could blossom to their fullest potential. </description> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Gary Galles</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/library/book/freedom-one-lesson-best-leonard-read </guid> </item><item> <title>Just a reminder that the new PM of Canada used to be head of the Bank of England</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/just-reminder-new-pm-canada-used-be-head-bank-england </link> <description> New "Canadian" PM Mark Carney has been head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. The technocracy acknowledges no borders. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/just-reminder-new-pm-canada-used-be-head-bank-england </guid> </item><item> <title>Spain's Blackout Shows the Regime Can't Be Bothered with Affordable, Reliable Power</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/spains-blackout-shows-regime-cant-be-bothered-affordable-reliable-power </link> <description> Normal people suffer from expensive power and blackouts while Europe‘s ruling regimes double down on unreliable “green” energy. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan McMaken</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/spains-blackout-shows-regime-cant-be-bothered-affordable-reliable-power </guid> </item><item> <title>Goods shipments to the US are collapsing</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/goods-shipments-us-are-collapsing </link> <description> But Bessent says tariffs won't cause any supply chain shocks (for some reason.) </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/goods-shipments-us-are-collapsing </guid> </item><item> <title>Higher Education’s Problems Began With the Federal Government’s 1965 Industrial Policy</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/higher-educations-problems-began-federal-governments-1965-industrial-policy </link> <description> Higher education has become unaffordable and its curriculums hopelessly politicized. We should remember that all of this is a result of programs developed more than a half-century ago to make higher education more accessible. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:02:32 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jane L. Johnson</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/higher-educations-problems-began-federal-governments-1965-industrial-policy </guid> </item><item> <title>Trump to "soften the blow" of the tariffs he imposed</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/trump-soften-blow-tariffs-he-imposed </link> <description> Trump has a great scheme going: impose huge new tariffs (AKA taxes) and then portray a cut on those same tariffs as some sort of generous move. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/trump-soften-blow-tariffs-he-imposed </guid> </item><item> <title>The Empire Strikes Back</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/empire-strikes-back </link> <description> News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ron Paul</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/empire-strikes-back </guid> </item><item> <title>US Navy accidentally dumps $60mln fighter jet into the ocean</title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-navy-accidentally-dumps-60mln-fighter-jet-ocean </link> <description> US Navy loses $60 million fighter jet after it fell off aircraft carrier. This brings the total cost of lost aircraft in Yemen up to $270 million since Trump took over. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 04:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/us-navy-accidentally-dumps-60mln-fighter-jet-ocean </guid> </item><item> <title>Liberals win in Canadian election. See results here. </title> <link>https://mises.org/notes-margin/liberals-win-canadian-election-see-results-here </link> <description> The Liberal Party, led by new Prime Minister Mark Carney, is projected to form a minority government in a dramatic political comeback, defeating the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 03:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator/><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/notes-margin/liberals-win-canadian-election-see-results-here </guid> </item><item> <title>Equity, Racial Equality, and Wealth Redistribution</title> <link>https://mises.org/mises-wire/equity-racial-equality-and-wealth-redistribution </link> <description> When modern progressives claim to support equity, what they really mean is the confiscation of wealth and transferal of private property to politically-favored groups. These policies have a sorry history from Reconstruction and continued through the 20th century communist regimes. </description> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:03:06 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Wanjiru Njoya</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/mises-wire/equity-racial-equality-and-wealth-redistribution </guid> </item><item> <title>Our Enemy, The Bureaucracy: Mises Circle in Phoenix</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/our-enemy-bureaucracy-mises-circle-phoenix </link> <description> Tom DiLorenzo, Tom Woods, and Robert Malone meet in Phoenix to expose how state power, psychological operations, and public health "experts" use bureaucracy as both a weapon and a weakness. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mises Institute</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/our-enemy-bureaucracy-mises-circle-phoenix </guid> </item><item> <title>Don't Like Tariffs on Food? Just Make Do with Less, You Glutton.</title> <link>https://mises.org/power-market/dont-tariffs-food-just-make-do-less-you-glutton </link> <description> They‘re at it again, except this time it‘s to tell the plebs to “just deal with it” when it comes to import taxes (i.e., “tariffs”) that Americans will have to pay on foods sourced from places outside the United States. </description> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:00:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ryan McMaken</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/power-market/dont-tariffs-food-just-make-do-less-you-glutton </guid> </item><item> <title>MAGA, MAHA, and the Nanny State</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/our-enemy-bureaucracy-mises-circle-phoenix/maga-maha-and-nanny-state </link> <description> "Modern medicine looks more like a religion than a science—and its priests are bureaucrats." </description> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:45:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dr. Robert Malone</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://mises.org/podcasts/our-enemy-bureaucracy-mises-circle-phoenix/maga-maha-and-nanny-state </guid> </item><item> <title>The Public Health Bureaucracy: Enemy of the Public, Enemy of Health</title> <link>https://mises.org/podcasts/our-enemy-bureaucracy-mises-circle-phoenix/public-health-bureaucracy-enemy-public-enemy-health </link> <description> "Bureaucracies never had to prove they helped—they only had to follow the rules and demand obedience." </description> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:40:00 CDT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Thomas E. 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