Audio versions of selected Mises Wire articles from 2021.

Audio Mises Wire 2021

Murray Rothbard wrote, “The rate of interest is the price of ‘time.’” It’s safe to say the world’s central banks have manipulated and mispriced what time is worth.

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/todays-negative-rates-are-path-poverty

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Today's Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty | Doug French

Ideally, political elites would like nothing more than state-sponsored ethnic conflict. Having multiple groups pitted against each other in petty political squabbles makes effective opposition against the managerial class virtually impossible. 

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/california-voters-defeated-affirmative-action-and-left-was-very-surprised

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California Voters Defeated Affirmative Action and the Left Was Very Surprised | José Niño

Deficits still matter, largely because they require monetary policies that lead to bubbles, inequality, and the slow Japanization of the US economy. 

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/2021s-deficit-spending-already-out-control-heres-why-thats-problem

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2021's Deficit Spending Is Already Out of Control. Here's Why That's a Problem. | Ryan McMaken

The aims of the WEF are not to plan every aspect of production and thus to direct all individual activity. Rather, the goal is to limit the possibilities for individual activity—by dint of squeezing out industries and producers within industries from the economy.

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-ii-corporate-socialism

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The Great Reset, Part II: Corporate Socialism | Michael Rectenwald

In January 1921, thirty-five hundred people packed the Lexington Theater in midtown Manhattan to hear a debate of socialism. Ludwig von Mises in Vienna later called the debate "instructive."

Original article: mises.org/wire/debating-socialism-seligman-nearing-debate-100

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Debating Socialism: The Seligman-Nearing Debate at 100 | Rob Weir

No matter how bleak the economy may be, the Keynesians are likely to say, “It would have been worse without us.”

Original article: mises.org/wire/fed-wont-save-us-growing-jobs-recession

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The Fed Won't Save Us from the Growing Jobs Recession | Robert P. Murphy

Let us begin with what CBDCs definitely are not: they are not a new kind of cryptocurrency akin to bitcoin.

Original article: mises.org/wire/central-bank-digital-currency-primer

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Central Bank Digital Currency: A Primer | Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

Six hundred dollars, two thousand, or how about one million per person? How much money should a government give its people to get the wheels of commerce turning again?

Original article: mises.org/power-market/angel-gabriel-and-monetary-inflation

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The Angel Gabriel and Monetary Inflation | Robert Aro

The Left has often claimed that privatization is a neoliberal scam. But actual experience suggests privatization schemes have improved access to goods and services while raising productivity and real incomes. 

Original article: mises.org/wire/yes-privatization-makes-us-better

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Yes, Privatization Makes Us Better Off | Roberto Ledezma

Consumers are indeed sovereign, but the reason consumers can exercise their sovereignty is that entrepreneurs have already borne the uncertainty of production to make the goods available for purchase.

Original article: mises.org/wire/how-consumer-sovereignty-and-entrepreneurship-work-together

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How Consumer Sovereignty and Entrepreneurship Work Together | Per Bylund

If the FBI and the Pentagon have already demonstrated their officials are willing to break and bend rules to obstruct Trump, why believe the administrative class when they insist elections are free and fair and all above board?

Original article: mises.org/wire/why-trump-voters-dont-trust-people-who-count-votes

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Why Trump Voters Don't Trust the People Who Count the Votes | Ryan McMaken

In case you doubted that California's politicians are firmly committed to ever-higher levels of taxation, California is now trying to retroactively impose sales taxes on out-of-state retailers going as far back as 2012.

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/california-now-wants-tax-people-who-live-other-states-too

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California Now Wants to Tax People Who Live in Other States, Too | Gary Galles

Many healthcare professionals have happily embraced the same attitude as cops: "We're experts, don't you dare question us." But the 100,000 yearly medical-error deaths suggest this expertise ought to be questioned more often. 

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/medical-errors-and-cult-expertise-age-covid

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Medical Errors and the Cult of Expertise in the Age of Covid | Ryan McMaken

The Nuremberg prosecutors wanted to indict the Nazis on trial for crimes, but at the same time they wanted to preserve the dogma that the modern European nation-state is the culmination of moral progress. This created a conundrum.  

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/double-standards-reparations-and-war-crimes

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Double Standards, Reparations, and War Crimes | David Gordon

Machiavelli asserts that civil society can best flourish in the absence of government intrusion.

Original article; https://mises.org/library/feudalism-and-cronyism-machiavelli%E2%80%99s-italy

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Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli’s Italy | Jo Ann Cavallo

Claims that market arrangements involve the unethical “using” of others are of lengthy pedigree. But they are also of questionable merit.

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/markets-arent-about-using-people-markets-help-people-attain-their-goals

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Markets Aren't about "Using" People. Markets Help People Attain Their Goals. | Gary Galles

Human action cannot be analyzed in the same way that one would analyze objects. These quantitative methods do not improve our knowledge of the driving causes in economics.

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/quantitative-methods-economics-can-describe-not-explain-events

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Quantitative Methods in Economics Can Describe—but Not Explain—Events | Frank Shostak

The latest impeachment saga simply confirms Thomas Paine’s adage: “The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.” Score another victory for the Swamp.

Original Article: https://mises.org/wire/biggest-lies-impeachment-saga

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The Biggest Lies of the Impeachment Saga | James Bovard

Prudent economic calculation becomes more difficult as legal and regulatory regimes are subject to frequent changes and political upheaval. 

Original Article: https://mises.org/wire/want-more-entrepreneurship-embrace-long-term-legal-stability

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Want More Entrepreneurship? Embrace Long-Term Legal Stability. | Michele Corgatelli

A state's borders should change over time to reflect demographic and ideological realities. By denying this, political leaders are effectively saying that the rights of minority populations don't matter.

Original Article: https://mises.org/wire/some-coloradoans-want-break-and-join-wyoming-they-should-least-get-vote-it

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Some Coloradoans Want to Break Off and Join Wyoming | Ryan McMaken

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