Mises Wire

Alexander Hamilton hated decentralization, and wanted a strong central government, high taxes, and a central bank. Hamilton's legacy today dominates in Washington, DC.

Economic mythology said governments must regulate markets to prevent monopolies. In reality, it is the government regulation itself that creates monopolies, which do not emerge in free markets.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

Issues of immigration are complex. The current system of open borders, detention and expanding access to welfare is destructive to our body politic.  We need to come up with a better system that protects the rights of all.

Elites portray CBDC currency as a helpful high-tech alternative to cash and current electronic money. But CBDCs are really little more than a tool for total state control of the economy. 

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We have two choices as to what happened at the Trump shooting: law enforcement personnel was either (1) disastrously incompetent or (2) complicit in the assassination attempt. 

When governments seize private firms in the name of nationalization, the moves are usually politically popular. However, it doesn't take long for the nationalized firms to turn into a financial black hole.

The Washington political establishment's uniform condemnation of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump does not square with the apocalyptic rhetoric they have used to describe him over the past eight years.

Commonsense safety measures are being replaced in our working culture by an impossible “no risk” standard. A culture of “can do” is replaced by the culture of fear.