Gold and silver are international commodities, and, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
Audio Mises Daily
Audio recordings of Mises Daily articles.
This world-renowned merchant seeks no fame for his business achievements. Yet there is no story more full of encouragement and inspiration for youth, writes Orison Swett Marden. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for help from nobody, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
Higher food prices set off the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the mass protests in countries like Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, and Iran. People in these countries buy more unprocessed foods and spend a much higher percentage of their income on food, so they have been severely impoverished...
Voters are faced with bundled choices, they vote infrequently, no individual’s vote will affect the election, voters have little incentive to be highly informed about the candidates’ policy positions, and the winning candidate is not obliged to deliver on his promises. Candidates who understand...
Announcing that 50 million Americans are uninsured means nothing. It could be our government’s involvement that has led to the current situation, writes Charlie Virgo. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
The use of mathematics necessarily leads the economist to distort reality by making the theory convenient for mathematical symbolism and manipulation. Mathematics takes over, and the reality of human action loses out, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff...
The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object — one thing to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application, writes Orison Swett Marden. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Brad O’Connell.
God knows I had enough to do without sitting and listening to the city people tell me what an idyllic life I had and how they envied me. But I didn’t notice any of them grabbing a hayfork and pitching in, writes An Ex-Farmer. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Brad O’Connell.
It is theoretically conceivable but scarcely likely that the ruling class will rush to embrace a philosophy and a political economy that will end their power and put them, in effect, out of business, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
It is vital — indeed, it is literally a life-and-death matter — that Americans be able to look as coolly and clear-sightedly, as free from myth, at their government’s record in foreign affairs as they increasingly are able to do in domestic politics, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio...
It was the physiocrats who broke with centuries of sound economic reasoning and contributed to what would become, in the hands of Smith and Ricardo, a reactionary and obscurantist destruction of the correct analysis of value, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated...
Human beings do not possess a mystical property of “probability” inside them; rather, they always act on their subjective beliefs and values. Probability in the human world is thus merely a measure of man’s uncertainty about the subjective beliefs and values that influence the actions of other men...
It is man’s nature to strive ceaselessly after the substitution of more satisfactory conditions for less satisfactory. This motive stimulates his mental energies and prompts him to act. Life in a perfect frame would reduce man to a purely vegetative existence, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973)...
Crystal meth is a horrible drug, but it is also a cheap date, the poor man’s cocaine. During cocaine’s heyday, meth was nearly extinct on the illegal market. Then came the war on cocaine, writes Mark Thornton. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the author.
When the state spends more money than it receives in taxes — a fact indelibly written into the bond — it is deliberately committing an act of bankruptcy. Is dishonesty transmuted into its opposite when committed by a legal entity, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966). This audio Mises Daily is narrated...
The famous physiocratic tenet that only land is productive must be considered bizarre and absurd. It is certainly a tremendous loss of insight compared to Cantillon, who identified land and labor as original productive factors, and entrepreneurs as the motors of the market economy, writes Murray N...
A superficial observer of present-day ideologies could easily fail to recognize the prevailing bigotry of the molders of public opinion and the machinations that render inaudible the voice of dissenters, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Ted Whelan.
In every country the socialists have become office seekers, aiming to get hold of the reins of government by parliamentary methods, and for no other purpose than to enjoy the prerogatives and perquisites of office, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Ted Whelan.
The 17th-century Dutch Protestant Hugo Grotius, deeply influenced by the late Spanish Scholastics, developed a theory of natural laws that he boldly declared was truly independent of the question of whether God had created them, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is...
