By the 12th century, the Italian city-states had evolved a new form of government, new at least since ancient Greece. The Italian city-states became republics, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
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It is remarkable that the Constitution was little trusted or admired by the wisest and most illustrious of its founders, and that its severest and most desponding critics were those whom Americans revere as the fathers of their country, writes Lord Acton. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy...
Economics is about human choice and action. The praxeological concept of time is not the concept of physics or biology. It refers to the sooner or the later as operative in the actors’ judgments of value, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Calvin’s embattled followers, enjoying rising aspirations against non-Calvinist rulers, developed justifications for resistance to evil rulers. These were first set forth in the 1550s by the English “Marian exiles” in Switzerland and Germany, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises...
Printing up money and lowering the value of all dollar-denominated assets while simultaneously benefiting political friends and accomplices is surely a fraud that could be classified as a confidence game, writes Mark Thornton. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the author.
The international gold standard works without any action on the part of governments. It is effective, real cooperation of all members of the world-embracing market economy. There is no need for any government to interfere, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by...
Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural rights and sovereignty — and therefore a justification for individual acts of tyrannicide, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is...
The motive was empire on one side and self-government on the other. It was a question between liberty and authority, between government by consent and government by force, writes Lord Acton. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy Lilley.
Fake booms and their consequent busts are directly linked to financial cycles, which in turn reflect the swings in money creation. Fiat money lies at the heart of this process, writes Antony P. Mueller. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
Copernicus became the first person to set forth clearly the “quantity theory of money,” the theory that prices vary directly with the supply of money in the society. He did so 30 years before Azpilcueta Navarrus, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff...
The attempts to create a double standard of gold and silver failed lamentably. It was this failure that generated the gold standard — a manifestation of a crushing defeat of the governments and their cherished doctrines, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff...
With an inflationary or deflationary policy, a government does not promote the public welfare, the commonweal, or the interests of the whole nation. It merely favors one or several groups of the population at the expense of other groups, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is...
Salmasius pointed out that moneylending was a business like any other, and thereby entitled to charge a market price. Competition lowers the price. If one doesn’t like high interest rates, the more usurers the better, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff...
Congress decreed that gold and silver dollars should be interchangeable and put upon the Treasury a mandate to keep them equal in value. How? By what magic? Why, by the magic of a phrase, writes Garet Garrett (1878–1954). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
John Calvin’s main contribution to the usury question was in having the courage to dump the prohibition altogether. He had only contempt for the Aristotelian argument that money is sterile, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
The governments of almost all countries are engaged in a campaign against the capitalists. They are intent upon expropriating them by means of taxation and monetary measures, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). T his audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach .
The gold standard is not a game but a social institution. Its working does not depend on the preparedness of any people to observe some arbitrary rules. It is controlled by the operation of inexorable economic law, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff...
From backstage, the New Deal was an incredible confusion, unable, as Mr. Flynn thinks, to make sense even to itself; and the man least competent to make sense of it was the president, writes Garet Garrett (1878–1954). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy Lilley.
Mises illustrates his case with a review of the fall of Germany, from the collapse of classical liberalism to the rise of nationalism and socialism. But Germany merely constitutes an early example of the things to come, writes Hans F. Sennholz (1922–2007). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy...
If composers could set still-unmatched records of productivity without copyrights while earning a living, writers could do this in an environment that did not give them the hope of forever subsisting off past accomplishments, writes Gennady Stolyarov II. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the...
