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July 4, 2020
Mises Institute

By James Bovard

Collecting Old Coins Taught Me to Never Trust the Government

Old coins vaccinated me against trusting politicians long before I grew my first scruffy beard. I began collecting coins when I was eight years old in 1965, the year President Lyndon Johnson began removing all the silver from American coins.

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By Ralph Raico

How Historians Changed the Meaning of "Liberalism"

Liberalism was the most popular and influential ideology during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. So, every new socialist and authoritarian movement defined itself as "liberal" to capitalize on liberalism's popularity and importance.

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By Ryan McMaken

June Jobs Numbers Showed Big Growth. But Recent Weekly Unemployment Claims Data Is Worrisome.

Monthly data continues to look good for a fast jobs recovery. But weekly unemployment claims began to move sideways in late June, and total continuing unemployment still numbers more than 17 million.

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MISES WIRE AND
POWER & MARKET


Who Is the Greatest Living Economist? by Jeff Deist

The Fed Bails Out Big Corporations, Yet Again by Robert Aro

Nozick and the Minimal State by David Gordon

The Problem with Measuring "Consumer Sentiment" by Frank Shostak

The Disastrous Legacy of Woodrow Wilson by William L. Anderson

Empathy for the Poor Is Not Enough by Gerardo Enrique Garibay Camarena

All You Need to Know about Alexis de Tocqueville by Ryan McMaken

Why Governments Hate Currency Competition by Thorsten Polleit

Thomas Sowell: Understanding Markets and Free Choice by Gary Galles

The COVID Crisis Supercharged the War on Cash by Claudio Grass

The Problem with Government "Contact Tracing" by James Ketler

Beware Washington's Latest Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Scheme by Andrew Moran

The Irony of Marxist Class Consciousness by Antony Sammeroff

As the Fed Pumps, the Stock Market Is Increasingly the Only Game in Town by Doug French

What Anticapitalist Christian Economists Get Wrong by William L. Anderson

The Second Round of Lockdowns Won't Be as Easy as the First by Ryan McMaken

AUDIO MISES WIRE


The Second Round of Lockdowns Won't Be as Easy as the First

The Austrian "Credit Money" Craze of 1920

Are Fractional Reserve Bank Deposits Money?

The Forgotten Greatness of Rothbard’s Preface to Theory and History

1918: A Study in How Disease Can Shape Public Policy

The State: The Deadliest Virus

A Review of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth

As the Fed Pumps, the Stock Market Is Increasingly the Only Game in Town

How the Monopoly Power of Police Agencies Encourages Abuse

After the Lockdowns, Government "Fixes" for the Economy Will Make Things Even Worse

Repealing Useless and Abusive Laws Might Do More Good Than "Defunding" the Police

COVID Lockdowns Crippled the Division of Labor, Setting the Stage for Civil Unrest

Scandinavian Model Won’t Work in Chile


THIS WEEK'S PODCASTS


The Human Action Podcast: Man, Economy and State with Jeff Deist

Economics for Entrepreneurs: Peter Klein: Four Considerations for the Delegation of Derived Judgment

The Bob Murphy Show: Keith Knight Interviews Bob on Krugman’s Zombie Book

The Bob Murphy Show: Mateusz Machaj on the Structure of Production in Economic Theory, and the Political Philosophy of the Star Wars Prequels
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