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The year 2020 is one of the most disrupted times in at least the last half century, maybe longer. Global protests and riots, the covid-19 virus, lockdowns, and police killings of unarmed citizens. Add to that widespread rioting, looting, arson, homelessness, and destruction of property, including the tearing down of statues. This chaos in the

Listen to  the  Audio Mises Wire  version  of this article. Joe Biden’s gun policy platform offers support for almost all conceivable forms of government restrictions on the Second Amendment. This includes bans and restrictions on sales, expansion of registration and background checks, expansion of buyback programs and gun-grabbing statutes, and

Abstract: The word entrepreneur originally meant someone who is active, risky, and even violent. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was used to denote a contractor who built large structures and fortifications for the government or provided supplies for the military for a contracted price but largely uncertain future costs. In contrast,

Taken from the Minor Issues Podcast People can’t stop the Federal Reserve from inflating the money supply, nor can we prevent them from adding more fuel to their fire. We can only fight the fire started by the arsonists at the Fed from spreading further into our lives. In this article, I want to review the ways that people fight the Fed’s

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the “Minor Issues” podcast. I’m Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute. In this week’s episode, I’d like to talk about a brand-new paper of mine. It is on Ludwig von Mises and trade in general and international trade and protectionism. Trade, whether international or just across the street, is the great

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Minor Issues podcast. I am Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute. The great reckoning seems to be following the course that I have been charting by guesswork. In other words, the great trainwreck seems to be happening. Let’s see what we are experiencing so far. Interest rates appear to be headed out of

A review of: A Tale of Four Cities: From the Invisible Hand to Cancel Culture by Phil Duffy Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Minor Issues Podcast. I’m Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute. I am the book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics . The QJAE is the academic economic journal published by the Mises

The third Star Trek series— Deep Space 9 —is set on a distant space station-city. The producers had to be creative with the scripts because they are not visiting “strange, new worlds” all the time. In season 3, episodes 11 and 12, titled “Past Tense” they dealt with—thirty years ago in the mid-1990s, mind you—with the US homeless problem of their

The phrase “old school economics” is often used positively or approvingly by many, but is rarely explained. What is this school and where is it located?  You can be sure that it is not what is taught in most college classrooms today. It’s definitely not Keynesian or Marxist economics. But what is it? I often hear the phrase “old school economics”

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Minor Issues podcast . I’m Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute. We have kicked off the Fall Campaign at the Mises Institute. I humbly request that you make a small donation in the name of this podcast using the link in the show notes. It would mean a great deal to me. For every $100 or more donation, or