A proper solution to the taxicab crisis is not to co-opt the movement of gypsy cab drivers by the offer to take them into the system, but rather to destroy the system of restrictive cab licenses, writes Walter Block. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
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It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for predicting and remedying the disaster, writes Mark R. Crovelli. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
The job applications pour in by the buckets, all padded with degrees and made to look as impressive as possible. It’s all just paper. But experience and reputation are gold, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
With so many state governments’ budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public education. Hopefully, the schools themselves will become only a memory of a less-enlightened past, writes Gennady Stolyarov II. This audio Mises Daily is narrated...
A satisfactory explanation of business fluctuations must not be built upon the fact that individual firms make bad investments. Trade-cycle theory must explain the general upswing of business activities and the following general depression, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily...
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585–1642), considered the mass of Frenchmen simply as animals to be prodded or coerced in ways that were optimal for the French state, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
The owner of ghetto housing differs little from any other purveyor of low-cost merchandise, writes Walter Block. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
The beginning of a new credit expansion runs across remainders of preceding malinvestment and malemployment, not yet obliterated in the course of the readjustment process, and seemingly remedies the faults involved. In fact, however, this is merely an interruption, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973...
If monopoly companies for specific products or specific areas of trade were good, reasoned François du Noyer, sieur de Saint-Martin, why not go one better? Why not one big company, one gigantic monopoly for virtually everything? This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
There is as much work to be done as there are unfulfilled desires. Therefore, no matter how much work the rate buster completes, he cannot possibly exhaust or even make an appreciable dent in the amount of work to be done, writes Walter Block. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
People rebel against the insight that the malinvestment and overconsumption of the boom period are the cause of the bust. They refuse to believe that such an artificially induced boom is doomed. They are looking for the philosophers’ stone to make it last, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This...
Barthélemy de Laffemas comes to our attention because of the dozens of execrable pamphlets he wrote on behalf of the mercantile system that he was helping to put into place in France, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
The state makes a mess of everything it touches. Examples from the book include how and why the “hot” water in our homes became lukewarm and what can be done about it, and how traffic laws became a racket for extracting wealth from the population, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker. This audio Mises Daily is...
In the 1940s and early ‘50s, a school of establishment historians existed who made it their business to extol the virtues of the “Great Presidents.” This was a childishly transparent attempt to turn a bit of left-liberal politicking into the verdict of history, writes Ralph Raico. This audio Mises...
The British Currency School did not criticize the multifarious projects to lower or abolish interest by means of a banking reform. They tacitly ratified the naïve presumption of money’s neutrality, and many decades passed before the spell was broken, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio...
The system of mercantilism needed no high-flown “theory” to get launched. It came naturally to the ruling castes of the burgeoning nation-states. Theory came later — to sell to the deluded masses, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
The truth of the matter is that, far from causing starvation and famines, it is the speculator who prevents them. And far from safeguarding the lives of the people, it is the dictator who must bear the prime responsibility for causing the famine in the first place, writes Walter Block. This audio...
There are instances in which the methods of genuine credit expansion are used for an utterly different purpose: to allow the government to take advantage of the facilities of banking as a substitute for issuing fiat money, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by...
In the early 1700s, France turned on the taps of paper-money inflation. At the same time, England turned instead to a more subtle device for accomplishing the same inflationary objective: the creation of a new institution in history — a central bank, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio...
Rothbard was a man of great achievement and immense scholarship, an indefatigable worker, and the most significant anarchist writer then living — indeed the most significant name in the whole noble history of individualist anarchism, writes Ralph Raico. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven...
