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On this week's episode, Mark recaps Professor Guido Hülsmann's recent lecture on the cultural impact of the paper dollar. Hülsmann explains how an ever-inflationary monetary system and depreciating currency are leading to moral decay and divisiveness in America. Be sure to follow Minor Issues at Mises.org/MinorIssues. Additional Resources "The Cultural Impact of the Dollar" by Guido Hülsmann: Mises.org/Minor_42A "Abundance, Generosity, and the State: An...

The threat of hyperinflation has haunted fiat money economies throughout history. Although past empires crumbled under the weight of unrestrained money printing, modern bankers at the Federal Reserve assure us that today’s financial system is immune to such a fate. Austrian business cycle theory, however, reveals that current economic stimulation may be propelling us toward a crisis of catastrophic proportions: a crack-up boom that marks the dramatic end of this...

Ibram X. Kendi, the controversial author of How to Be an Antiracist, has been revealed as not only a hustler of horrid ideas but also a poor businessman. Kendi was appointed the head and founder of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research in 2020 following the aptly named “summer of love,” which saw riots in most major cities over calls for “racial justice.” Now, Boston University is committing mass layoffs of employees, as the Center has lost the $43...

As news of the Hamas attack on southern Israel began to trickle in on October 7, many who follow the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict knew the bad news was just beginning. It was immediately obvious that the ferocity of the Hamas attack, and the high proportion of women and children among the victims, would provide the Israeli state with political justification to launch devastating and revanchist attacks against civilians within the Gaza strip in retaliation. ...

“The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another.” So Ludwig von Mises begins a short chapter in Human Action called “The Economics of War.” While brief, the eleven pages (pages 817–28 in the scholar’s edition) are densely packed with Mises’s take on the history of warfare, what leads to total war, how wars are won, the costs of war, and the...

While Hillary Clinton’s call to have Trump supporters “deprogrammed” has been met with snickers, her attitude is in line with most of this country’s governing elites. Original Article: The Regime Plans More for Us Than Just Hillary Clinton’s "Deprogramming" Demands [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

Recently Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debated the merits of anarchism at the Soho Forum. Bob critiques Brook's opening statement. The Soho Forum Debate: Mises.org/HAP419a Bob's Book on Market Anarchy, Chaos Theory: Mises.org/HAP419b Rothbard's Book on Natural Rights and the State, For a New Liberty: Mises.org/HAP419c Hans-Herman Hoppe's Book on Private Defense, The Private Production of Defense: Mises.org/HAP419d Responding to Yaron Brook's...

Here are the results of the 2023 Swiss federal elections 🗳️ 🏆The major winner on Sunday was the right-wing Swiss People’s Party with 28.6% of the vote (+3 percentage points since 2019). ♻️The Green Party lost almost four percentage points, falling to 9.4%. 👩The proportion of women in the House of Representatives has fallen from 42% to 38.5%. Tell us your thoughts about the results here 👉...

Political scientist Lukas Golder offered his thoughts on the Swiss election results and what they could mean for Switzerland's relations abroad. Why weren't the Greens able to maintain their strides from 2019? What could the gains by the right-wing Swiss People's Party mean for relations with the EU? What do the election results mean for the make-up of the government? SWI swissinfo.ch journalist Julie Hunt spoke with Lukas Golder, political scientist at the gfs.bern research institute,...

In 2017, the Swiss village Albinen voted to offer a CHF25,000 ($28,000) inducement for adults and CHF10,000 for children to make their home in the village in the southwest canton of Valais.⁠ ⁠ The scheme was designed to counter a steady outflow of its population - which had shrunk to just 200 - to larger towns.⁠ ⁠ But the inducement scheme has partially backfired as the village has been swamped with 100 overseas applicants per day. ⁠ ⁠ Would you move there? ⁠ ⁠ Click here to find out more...