Audio Mises Daily

Keynes loved the pyramids. The attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of the pyramid project is part of a larger cultural effort to prop up the respectability of government in general and the nation-state in particular, writes Paul A. Cantor.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Joel Sams.

What they don't understand: aggregation, relative prices, interest rates, capital structure, money pumping, and regime uncertainty, writes Robert Higgs.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Colin Hussey.

A recorded mini lecture and video display purported to explain this mysterious phenomenon (mysterious to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, anyway). I knew that I was going to hear either a self-critical explanation or, more likely, some hogwash. Hogwash won, hands down, writes Patrick Barron.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Nathaniel Foote.

I use the term "liberal" without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the shackles of the state, writes Ron Paul.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.

We cannot eat money. We cannot wear money. We cannot live in money. Money can't buy you love, writes Shawn Ritenour.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.

The balanced budget passed away definitely in 1911, not to return again until a revolution had swept from the people of Italy their freedom, writes John T. Flynn (1882–1964).

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Nathaniel Foote.

Menger went on to accomplish a radical break with tradition: a thoroughly individualistic view of humanity and of the world, writes Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Paul Strikwerda.

If it is true that prices are signals which enable us to adapt our activities to unknown events and demands, it is evidently nonsense to believe that we can control prices, writes Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992).

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Nathaniel Foote.

I happened to sit down next to a man last week who has been my benefactor for my entire life and the large part of his, and yet we had never met. In fact, though he has been serving me faithfully for three decades, looking after my well-being and trying to improve my standard of living, he didn't even know my name, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Nathaniel Foote.

Often the dispersion of a fortune starts already in the lifetime of the businessman when his buoyancy, energy, and resourcefulness become weakened, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.