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In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebrating-birth-american-free-enterprise

As the economy worsens, expect to see more articles from legacy media about how saving money is actually bad for the economy. It's an old Keynesian myth.

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Dr. Robert Murphy explains why America’s chronic trade deficits trace to Nixon’s 1971 gold exit—not China—and how a popular reading of Triffin’s “dilemma” confuses the issue.

Sponsored by Dan Johnson and Randee Laskewitz.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya explains how “phony civil rights” expand state power at the expense of self-ownership and property, and offers a conservative-libertarian case for liberty rooted in reality.

Sponsored by Don Wills.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 18, 2025.

Dr. Jeffrey Herbener explains why “Crusoe economics” isn’t a caricature but the indispensable starting point for economics and liberty—built from action, property, and exchange.

Sponsored by Steven Berger.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 18, 2025.

Bob revisits capital and interest theory to show why the textbook result “interest = MPK” only holds in a one-good world, and why in actual markets the interest rate emerges from time, prices, and capital valuation—not raw productivity.

• Bob and Alberto Bisin Discuss the Use of Mathematics in Economics: Mises.org/HAP527a
• Bob's Dissertation, "Unanticipated Intertemporal Change in Theories of Interest": Mises.org/HAP527b

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Mark Thornton traces seven headline “problems” back to one engine: monetary inflation. Drawing on Austrian insights, Mark explains how new money distorts prices and wages; why cheap credit spawns debt booms, asset bubbles, and zombie firms; how deficit finance and central banking turn war into a budget line; and why rising prices erode family formation, savings, and civic trust. He connects the dots to today’s policy mix and sketches a bottom-up remedy: hard budget constraints, sound money, and decentralization that restores real price signals. Mark makes the case that inflation isn’t just “too many dollars”: it’s the hidden subsidy powering them all.

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Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/minarchism-worst-kind-state-idolatry

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the latest jobs number data, what it means for the affordability crisis, the legacy of Dick Cheney, and Thanksgiving favorites."

Appearing on the John Curley Show, Ryan McMaken examines how policy—not culture-war slogans—undermines the American family. He points to marriage penalties in the tax and welfare code, inflation that erodes real wages, zoning and permitting that price families out of housing, and schooling/childcare mandates that shift authority from parents to bureaucracies. Rather than more top-down “family policy,” Ryan argues for decentralization: end the marriage penalties, curb monetary inflation, remove barriers to homebuilding and home-based work, and return decisions over education and child-rearing to parents and local communities. The result is a practical case for strengthening families by shrinking Leviathan’s reach.

The original interview is available on YouTube.