Regulators with the European Union want people to believe that the “dead hand” of government regulation actually enhances competition. The only thing their actions enhance is more government power.

Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

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Ctrl+Alt+Regulate: The DMA’s Misguided Reboot of Competition | Siamak Etefagh

The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-free-enterprise

Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Free Enterprise

Mark Thornton dissects “contagion” hype and argues it’s not a market pathology. He shows why, in a free market, failures reallocate customers, labor, and capital to better firms rather than spread panic. Contagion appears only when government links balance sheets and distorts prices. Mark traces how credit booms set up bust,s and why even the Fed now sits upside-down, while homeowners are “rate-locked” and supply is frozen. The takeaway: politicians and central bankers invoke contagion to demand more power and money—yet their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.

See also “Fight Inflation Now” (Minor Issues, episode 72): Mises.org/MI_72

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Contagion

For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that's really about family fun and eating a huge meal.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-domestic-life

Thanksgiving: A Celebration of Domestic Life

New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real things and reality will hit New Yorkers soon enough, and they won’t like it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/zohran-mamdanis-socialism-flunks-basic-economics

Zohran Mamdani’s Socialism Flunks Basic Economics

In a special midweek episode of the Minor Issues podcast, Mark Thornton appears on Palisades Gold Radio with Stijn Schmitz. Mark argues that gold’s surge isn’t a fad: it’s a market verdict on runaway deficits, central-bank credibility, and fiat money itself. He also explains why manipulated rates breed booms, busts, and inequality, while sound money and decentralization restore real signals.

The original episode (”Dr. Mark Thornton: Early Innings for Gold, Silver Manipulation, Black Swans & Failing Markets”) is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2FUnca1q3c

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Metals, Black Swans, and the Next Bust

The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/lane-train-and-rest-college-football-madness-has-been-fueled-easy-money

The Lane Train (And the Rest of College Football Madness) Has Been Fueled by Easy Money

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the lies from Washington.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/unjustified-conflict-grants-memoirs-mexican-american-war

The Unjustified Conflict: Grant’s Memoirs on the Mexican-American War

This week Ryan and Zachary Yost take a look at international relations scholar John Mearsheimer’s claim that Europe faces a bleak future as the United States pivots away from NATO. Can Europe thrive without American taxpayers’ money? 

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John Mearsheimer and Europe’s Bleak Future

The US regime is gearing up for another war. Get ready for another regime-change disaster like we got in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. 

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Why Does Trump Want War with Venezuela?

Mises Institute Fellow Karl-Friedrich Israel appears on The Peter McCormack Show (https://petermccormack.com).

Inflation isn’t an economic metric—it’s a political tactic. When governments lie about inflation, they’re not miscalculating; they’re stealing from you. Mises Fellow Karl-Friedrich Israel explains to Peter McCormack how inflation quietly enriches asset holders, punishes workers, and pushes Europe into a slow, silent decline.

If your living standards are falling while politicians insist everything is fine, this conversation will make sense of it. If you still believe governments can print prosperity without consequences, you won’t enjoy what follows.

The Government Is Lying About Inflation

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