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As President Trump racks up defeat after defeat before the federal courts, the legacy media claims that federal judges are protecting us from government overreach. In reality, government overreach as we know it has been made possible by the federal judiciary.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/federal-judiciarys-war-trump-not-about-protecting-us-government-overreach

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In this episode, Mark Thornton shares his recent Revisionist History of War Conference talk on a lesser-known factor in the American Civil War: the Confederate “impressment” policy and its impact at Vicksburg. While Gettysburg is more famous, Vicksburg was just as pivotal, and the South’s policy of seizing goods at artificially low prices actually helped Grant win.

Mark challenges the idea that the Confederacy lost simply because it was outgunned, and he explores what this teaches about how smaller groups fighting for freedom and independence can take on much larger forces.

Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War by Mark Thornton and Robert Ekelund: https://mises.org/MI_122A

"The Confederate Blockade of the South" (Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1) by Mark Thornton and Robert Ekelund: https://mises.org/MI_122B

"The Economics of the Civil War" (eight-lecture series) by Mark Thornton: https://mises.org/MI_122C

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The political legacy of Elon Musk, the moral costs of Keynesianism, and the absurdity of Harvard and NPR as public goods.

Welcome back to the Power & Market Podcast, a weekly news recap from the Mises Institute’s editorial team.

In this episode of the Human Action Podcast, Bob analyzes the key arguments from the recent immigration debate at the Soho Forum between Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh. He clarifies the critical issue of how libertarians should approach immigration when the government controls significant property and resources, explores the implications for public property rights, and examines empirical claims made during the debate.

• Alex Nowrasteh's Cato Article on Immigrants' Welfare and Entitlement Benefits Consumption: Mises.org/HAP502a
• Alex's Cato Article, "Do Immigrants Affect Economic Institutions?": Mises.org/HAP502b
• Alex's Cato Article, "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States": Mises.org/HAP502c
• The Soho Debate Between Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh: Mises.org/HAP502d
• The Human Action Podcast, "Simon Guenzl vs. Dave Smith on Open Borders": Mises.org/HAP502e

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Polish professor of political theory Łukasz Dominiak joins us to talk about how Poland embraced a market economy after the Cold War ended.  We discuss some of the factors behind Poland's rise from poverty. 

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This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted a nineteenth-century-style war of extermination against what they consider to be another “lesser race.”

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-israeli-nineteenth-century-ways-war

The free market replaces the struggle for survival found in the animal world with social cooperation in which everybody benefits. Capitalism is a system of peace, not war.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ludwig-von-mises-peace-and-social-cooperation

Rumor has it that the Federal Reserve was able to resist the president‘s demands to enable funding of the Korean War. However, a look at the record demonstrates conclusively that the Fed bowed to Harry Truman‘s wishes to do what it has done for a century: finance America‘s wars.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/did-fed-achieve-independence-during-korean-war

President Trump's so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is more of the same: big and bloated. It adds billions to the federal deficit and does nothing to deal with the government‘s ruinous debt. Naturally, the Republicans support it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/one-bloated-brobdingnagian-bill

David Brady, Jr. reviews The Magic Coin by Dr. Jonathan Newman, a children‘s book that explains money in a way that even modern adults can understand.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/magic-coin-and-renewing-interest-monetary-policy