Always and everywhere, the regime loots productive members of society to benefit corporate cronies, interest groups, and key voting blocs. The result is taxes, inflation, regulation, and war. The Loot and Lobby Podcast takes a closer look at how this happens, and who’s on the losing side.

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The Fed promises a soft landing, but the fact that the Fed now plans to start cutting interest rates is one of the strongest recession signals we can get.

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Powell: More Easy Money Is Coming Soon

The US will add another $2 trillion to the total debt this year, and the US is now spending a trillion of your dollars on interest per year. There is no end in sight.

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Feds’ Runaway Deficits Are Here to Stay

We already knew recent jobs reports—as far as the establishment survey is concerned, was based largely on made up numbers.

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Federal Jobs Report Slices Total Jobs in New Revision

Price inflation is never caused by greed. It's always caused by a growing money supply. The money supply has grown big-time since 2020, and now we pay a lot more for food and housing.

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Rising Prices Are Caused by Monetary Inflation, Not Greed

The total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. Moreover, the new job growth is almost all in part-time jobs.

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America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago

Since 1956, few presidential candidates have managed to get more than 51 percent of the vote in national elections.

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Presidential Elections Are a Lot Closer than You Think

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at the economic fallout from the war in Iran. How has Iran been able to control the Strait of Hormuz? How might central bankers react? And draft talk out of Washington? Tune in to hear about this and more, as well as a preview of next week’s Libertarian Scholars Conference and Austrian Economics Research Conference.

The Strait of Hormuz is On Fire

As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to catastrophe.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/another-stone-age-making

Is Another Stone Age in the Making?

Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/cultural-marxism-masquerading-true-history

Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History

Milton Friedman and others tried to explain interest rates using liquidity, economic activity, and inflation expectations. These things, however, only describe interest but do not explain it. Only the Austrian theory of time preference correctly explains interest.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/popular-interest-rate-theory-describes-fails-explain

Popular Interest Rate Theory Describes but Fails to Explain

As we continue to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, Wanjiru Njoya reminds us that he never compromised his principles and stood for liberty throughout his all-too-brief life.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-never-abandoned-his-principles

Rothbard Never Abandoned His Principles

Generations of scholars come and go; a few, including Roger Garrison, make their mark on the field and inspire future generations to do the same.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/roger-garrison-and-sustainable-growth-austrian-school

Roger Garrison and the Sustainable Growth of the Austrian School

Leftists sarcastically asking where the money for this war will come from are right about the GOP’s hypocrisy, but wrong to imply that it actually means there's plenty to spend on all these government programs. We can’t afford any of this.

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No, We Cannot “Afford” This War with Iran Either

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made his a very wealthy man. 

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Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)

Combining binary and triangular interventions, the state coercively taxes citizens to pay for its services, monopolizes certain services, and then is incentivized to engage in paid non-delivery.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/its-not-anarcho-tyranny-its-interventionist-non-intervention

It’s Not Anarcho-Tyranny, It’s Interventionist Non-Intervention

On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton replays two short interviews: one recorded with Daniela Cambone weeks before the outbreak of war in the Middle East, and another with Dunagun Kaiser recorded days ago as the conflict escalates. Mark breaks down why precious metals are unusually volatile, how war and interventionism collide with inflationary fiat regimes, and why rising interest rates and commodity prices point to a more dangerous long-run trend. He also connects the dots between the Fed’s “liquidity” talk, a deeper leverage problem in finance, and the way wars can be used to divert attention from economic failures at home.

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War, Gold, and the Fed’s Next Move

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Presidential Elections Are a Lot Closer than You Think

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