The Fed is, in effect, a lawless economic government unto itself. It is the lender of first resort, a kind of reverse pawnshop that pays top dollar for rapidly declining assets.
This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
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Radio Rothbard is a weekly podcast featuring a cast of Mises Institute voices and special guests. The show tackles politics, current events, culture, media, and of course the predatory state, all from an uncompromising Rothbardian perspective. Radio Rothbard is the weekly anti-politics podcast you won't want to miss!
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In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the popularizing of the term "regime" being used against the Federal government. As a recent Bulwark article notes, this change in framing can be seen in conservative politicians like Ron DeSantis, to publications like The Federalist. Ryan and Tho welcome the American right sounding more and more like Lew Rockwell, and touch on the contributions of paleoconservatives like Sam Francis.
Recommended Reading
"World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals" by Murray N. Rothbard: https://Mises.org/RR_96_A
"The Problem With Right-Wing Regime Talk" by Joshua Tait: https://Mises.org/RR_96_B
"The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters" by Sam Adler-Bell (New York Times): https://Mises.org/RR_96_C
"Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets" by James Pogue (Vanity Fair): https://Mises.org/RR_96_D
"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" by Richard Hofstadter (Harper’s Magazine): https://Mises.org/RR_96_E
"Secede From the Regime" with Ryan McMaken and Lew Rockwell: https://Mises.org/RR_96_F
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Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop dissect Tuesday's debate, why "the issues" don't matter, and why the debate probably won't change the minds of many voters.
"I don't think America's faith in democracy has ever been lower than it is this morning. So, again, I think that's a successful debate." —Tho Bishop
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What happens when war shuts down the Strait of Hormuz? Mark looks at the economics and causes of a growing list of problems with the "chokepoints" of international trade: the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and Baltimore harbor. Will these chokepoints become Scapegoats for the Federal Reserve, and could war closing the Strait of Hormuz become a genuine world crisis?
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Recorded at the Mises Circle in Boston on the campus of Harvard University, on 1 October 2016.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both propose economic "plans," but neither understands the gravity of our situation. Minimum wage increases, higher taxes on the rich, or new import tariffs won't solve deep structural problems with the American economy: spending, debt, entitlements, and unchecked monetary expansion. Yet while the candidates posture, millions of Americans are now stuck in a new normal of decreasing wealth and decreasing opportunities.
What can be done to radically change the course of the US economy? What will it take to make DC stop spending and the Fed stop manipulating? Can the house of cards be rebuilt on a new foundation? And can Austrian economics provide real answers to our fiscal and monetary problems? Join us in Boston for the most engaging and provocative perspectives on the untold story of this election: The real state of the US economy.
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After the fraudulent elections in the Kansas Territory, tensions erupted following the death of a Free State settler. The pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers took up arms in the Wakarusa War and the Sack of Lawrence. In Washington, the Kansas controversy led to the brutal beating of an anti-slavery politician on the floor of the Senate.
Chris Calton gives a revisionist look at the antebellum period leading up to the Civil War. This is the seventh episode in the second season of Historical Controversies.
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Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But, to most Americans today, "Federal Reserve" is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.
Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary documentary is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.
Alan Greenspan was not, we're told, happy about this 1996 blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie is changing America.
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