"That just doesn't make any sense, to call your legislator and expect them to act like they're your neighbor or that you have a lot in common. That's just not reality." View the full episode at https://Mises.org/RR_116. 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! To subscribe on your favorite platform, visit https://Mises.org/RothPod ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmQWG150-x0

Government policy encourages single parent household formation while discouraging full-time employment and driving up housing costs. Original article: https://mises.org/wire/three-barriers-improving-poverty-rates-america This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyo3Mg0gp8c

"Since 1918, practically all indicators of high or rising time preferences have exhibited a systematic upward tendency: as far as government is concerned, democratic republicanism produced communism (and with this public slavery and government sponsored mass murder even in peacetime), fascism, national socialism and, lastly and most enduringly, social democracy ("liberalism"). Compulsory military service has become almost universal, foreign and civil wars have increased in frequency and in brutality, and the process of political centralization has advanced further than ever before." Recorded at the Mises Institute's "Costs of War" conference in May 1994 in Auburn, Alabama: https://mises.org/library/the-costs-war Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Austrian School economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society, former editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a lifetime member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azHz6l-OxMs

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced the bank would begin selling assets it has relentlessly bought since the Crash of '08. The financial press, including the Wall Street Journal, dutifully praised Yellen for her steady hand. But our guest Dr. Mark Thornton has a different take on what it all means for stock markets, investors, and the US economy. Can quantitative easing—a roundabout form of monetizing debt—actually work? Can monetary policy make us rich? Or, are Fed officials just groping in the dark, putting off a day of reckoning? Jeff Deist and Mark Thornton unwind the narrative. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSTwjNok38s