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While Republicans have promised robust economic growth to accompany their tax cuts, reality has been different. That is because Republicans increased government spending at the same time, dragging down the economy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/gop-fiscal-follies

With some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions and arguments, we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument for the state, namely, that the state solves none of the problems he presents.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-self-defeating-theory

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that Rothbard's political philosophy is not a sideshow to his economics but its essential second pillar, and that this integrated system is precisely what is needed to challenge the egalitarian premise at its root. Correcting Piketty's spreadsheets isn't enough; the moral case for liberty has to be made explicitly and on philosophical grounds.

Recorded in Auburn, Alabama, on May 14, 2026.

Bob argues that many Austro-libertarians (himself included, initially) have been too quick to dismiss the Trump administration's foreign and economic policy as mere incompetence or corruption, without grasping the strategic logic behind it. His thesis: the U.S. national security establishment sees China's rise as an existential threat and believes the window to act is closing fast, making the current flurry of aggressive moves less like random chaos and more like a desperate Hail Mary pass.

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• The Charts and Graphs Mentioned in this Episode: Mises.org/HAP549a
• The Bob Murphy Show, "LEAKED: Trump's Secret Strategy Briefing": Mises.org/HAP549b
• Core Insights, "China Quietly Built a 10,400km Railway to Iran — The US is Terrified": Mises.org/HAP549c
• The Tom Woods Show, "The Venezuela Propaganda, with David Stockman": Mises.org/HAP549d

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On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down a variety of headlines from the week, including bad inflation data, Trump's trip to China, Kevin Warsh's Senate confirmation, and the political theatre of Spencer Pratt and Zohran Mamdani.

In the year since Donald Trump’s “liberation day” in April 2024 fewer Americans are now working, and inflation-adjusted hourly earnings are still below where they were in 2021.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/job-market-has-only-gotten-worse-trumps-liberation-day

In 1871, the “discovery” of marginal economic analysis soon took a wrong turn, moving towards quantification, data, and mathematics. It is time to “rediscover” the margin, this time the margin as explained by Carl Menger.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/todays-ais-show-marginal-revolutions-unfinished-business

As the economy faulters, socialists are getting elected, promising free goods and services and an end to the chaos. Even when they make things worse, however, they will still gain political power.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/socialists-are-reaping-bountiful-political-harvest-while-they-create-havoc

Governments take valuable things like paper and minerals, stamp something on them, and call them money, in the process rendering these things almost worthless. Something is wrong with this picture.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/cost-money-coinage-fiat-power-and-quiet-corruption-value

Both progressives and conservatives show a complete unwillingness or inability to distinguish between those who got rich by genuinely creating value by serving others and those who are getting rich by expropriating wealth through force.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/progressives-and-conservatives-are-wrong-about-taxing-rich

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