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Audio Mises Daily

Audio recordings of Mises Daily articles.

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Why <em>The Theory of Money and Credit</em> Is More Important Than Ever

Why <em>The Theory of Money and Credit</em> Is More Important Than Ever

Eighty years ago, Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit first appeared in English. It remains one of the most important... Read more

8 Nov 2014

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Rothbard on Self-Defense and War

Rothbard on Self-Defense and War

Libertarians — and Murray Rothbard in particular — are not pacifists, but reject the killing of innocents and other unju... Read more

14 Oct 2014

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The True Cost of the Homeownership Obsession

The True Cost of the Homeownership Obsession

The homeownership rate is now back where it was forty years ago. So what did all that federally-subsidized homebuying ov... Read more

16 Jan 2015

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The Savings and Loan Debacle: Twenty-Five Years Later

The Savings and Loan Debacle: Twenty-Five Years Later

Many still blame “deregulation” for the financial disaster that was caused by an intricate web of federal laws and regul... Read more

11 Aug 2014

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Do You Hate the State?

Do You Hate the State?

The abolitionist would blister his thumb pushing a button that would abolish the state immediately, writes Murray N. Rot... Read more

15 Jun 2011

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What Is the Rate of Return on the Louisiana Purchase?

What Is the Rate of Return on the Louisiana Purchase?

The true benefits of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases are less clear than their value to pro-government propaganda, wr... Read more

11 Jul 2014

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The "Natural Interest Rate" Is Always Positive and Cannot Be Negative

The "Natural Interest Rate" Is Always Positive and Cannot Be Negative

We're now in the world of negative interest rates, and Mises’s insights about human action are the key to understanding ... Read more

9 Apr 2015

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How Inflation Helps Keep the Rich Up and the Poor Down

How Inflation Helps Keep the Rich Up and the Poor Down

Inflation puts a brake on social mobility: the rich stay rich (longer) and the poor stay poor (longer) than they would i... Read more

4 Jun 2014

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Markets Are About Much More Than Material Goods

Markets Are About Much More Than Material Goods

The affluence of free markets makes it possible to pursue goals few of us would have the means to pursue otherwise, writ... Read more

6 May 2014

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A Brief History of Progressivism

A Brief History of Progressivism

“Progressives” throughout history repeatedly show a fondness for social engineering and state control, writes Andrew Syr... Read more

5 Aug 2014

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Pioneers in Free-Market Literary Criticism

Pioneers in Free-Market Literary Criticism

Thanks to Henry Hazlitt, Paul Cantor and others, a body of work by free-market literary critics is now beginning to emer... Read more

27 Aug 2014

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Confusing Capitalism with Fractional Reserve Banking

Confusing Capitalism with Fractional Reserve Banking

Low interest rates combined with high-risk fractional reserve banking creates a powder keg on which we’re sitting today,... Read more

12 Aug 2014

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Prohibition vs. Private Solutions at the Electric Daisy Carnival

Prohibition vs. Private Solutions at the Electric Daisy Carnival

The ability to find cities to host their events lies largely on the ability to minimize drug-related problems, writes Jo... Read more

11 Jul 2011

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What Is Money?

What Is Money?

A man would die of hunger who, having decided that money is real wealth, should carry out the idea to the end, writes Fr... Read more

27 May 2011

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Vices Are Not Crimes

Vices Are Not Crimes

Spooner's anarchism was, like his abolitionism, another valuable part of his pietist legacy. For, here again, his pietis... Read more

16 Jul 2012

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The NCAA Racket

The NCAA Racket

The NCAA ensures there is no functioning job market for athletes and no competition to which students might go seeking h... Read more

15 Sep 2014

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William Graham Sumner and the Conquest of the United States by Spain

William Graham Sumner and the Conquest of the United States by Spain

The great sociologist William Graham Sumner explains how the imperialist wars result in the very opposite of their state... Read more

24 May 2011

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World War I in Our Minds: A Historical View

World War I in Our Minds: A Historical View

With 100 years having passed since the start of the First World War, the view of the war among historians and the public... Read more

5 Nov 2014

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The Unseen Costs of the Minimum Wage

The Unseen Costs of the Minimum Wage

Supporters of minimum wage hikes claim they have little or no effect on employment, the law of demand makes it clear the... Read more

15 Sep 2014

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