Download Episode. Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins Scott to discuss the ill effects central banking has on the country. McMaken wrote an article recently pointing out that the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is technically bankrupt. Scott has...
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Libertarianism and Catholicism Mesh Better Than You Think
Can Catholics Be libertarian? According to an American Values Survey, libertarians make up at least 7% of Americans. In addition, about 15% of Americans would consider or already do vote for libertarian values, even if they’re not exclusively affiliated with the...
No More ‘Better Mousetraps’: How Financialization Discourages Technological Improvement
Capitalism is a social technology that directs resources toward valuable uses, increasing the total wealth in society. As a social technology, it organizes people and resources into systems and processes. When capitalism directs resources toward processes that...
Church Proves the Poor Will Benefit From Privatized Education
Depending on which source you look at, there are hundreds of thousands of churches in world. Almost all Churches contain the two things Democrats constantly tell us are impossible if education were voluntarily funded instead of funded coercively via taxation. ...
The IRS Straps on Their Jackboots to Enforce Biden’s Tax Laws
The Internal Revenue Service is perhaps the ultimate sacred cow in Washington. It is the “goose that lays the golden eggs” for the city’s power and prestige, delivering trillions of dollars to politicians to work miracles (or at least get reelected). When criticism...
Learning Economics From the Catholics
While the average person thinks economics begins with Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations, readers of the Mises Wire know that the story goes back much further than that. Members of the Austrian school commonly describe their earliest intellectual predecessors, the...
3 Proofs That the Corporate Press is Complete Propaganda
https://youtu.be/pONdewnuFYs Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are...
HOAX: Florida Police Dept. Releases Fake Video of Officer ‘Almost Dying’ From Touching Fentanyl (With Gloves)
In case you've been completely in the dark for the last decade, you've likely noticed that the United States is currently in the midst of an opioid crisis. This crisis knows no demographic, no race, no gender, no age limit, and no occupation—it hits them all. Due to...
The Secret to Seeing Through “News” Propaganda!
https://youtu.be/dfw0wVP1m_E Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are...
Freedom of Speech Is Faith in Humanity
Elon Musk has completed a private acquisition of Twitter, promising to unshackle what’s supposed to be a free speech forum from the chains of progressive ruling-class censorship. This is a major victory for free expression—witness all the “wailing and gnashing of...
College: 4 Years of Labor for $0.00 an Hour
Has it ever occurred to the "Fight for $15" Democratic Socialists that volunteer work and college violate their principle of "all work should render a $15 an hour wage"? College involves thousands of unpaid hours listening to trivial nonsense which no student...
Why Governments Should Never Be Trusted
Terrific news. I'm about to be a millionaire, check out the email I just received: I am Aisha Al-Gaddafi, the only biological daughter of Former President of Libya Col. Muammar Al-Qaddafi. Am a single Mother and a Widow with three Children. I have investment...
25 Premises That Guide Your Politics
A premise is a fundamental proposition that one accepts to be true. It is used as a starting point for reasoning or taking actions. If they are wrong, so is the reasoning or actions that follow. Our premises not only determine our politics, they are basic to our...
Joe Biden’s COVID Dictatorship Will Never End
The Biden administration formally decreed last week that America’s COVID “emergency” continues. That proclamation was tricky to reconcile with President Biden’s announcement last month on 60 Minutes: “The pandemic is over.” Apparently, that was malarkey—perhaps part...
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