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Until the day comes that a majority of the population wants to abolish all states, it makes sense in the meantime to look to ways that will reduce the power of states, localize that power, and take at least some of it out of the hands of some of the most powerful ruling state elites. This episode of Radio Rothbard features Ryan McMaken's talk presented at the Mises Institute 40th Anniversary Supporters Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 7, 2022.

"On Secession and Small States" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_102_A

"What We Mean by Decentralization" by Lew Rockwell: Mises.org/RR_102_B

"The European Miracle" by Ralph Raico: Mises.org/RR_102_C

"Nations by Consent" by Murray N. Rothbard: Mises.org/RR_102_D

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Ryan and Tho talk with Mises.org author and German native Rosanna Weber about the energy crisis in Germany. German policymakers have greatly worsened the ongoing energy crisis in Germany by abandoning nuclear energy and taking a hard line on Russian natural gas. Now with the damage done to the Nord Stream pipeline, German consumers face even fewer options as winter approaches. 

Rosanna Weber is a graduate student in Economic History at the London School of Economics and a freelance journalist.

"Germany's Nuclear Choice: Russian Energy Crisis Forces a Reckoning" by Rosanna Weber: Mises.org/RR_101_A

"Eat or Heat: Europeans Already Are Facing Previously Unthinkable Dilemmas" by Claudio Grass: Mises.org/RR_101_B

"Europe Ditched Russian Energy. Now People Are Sitting in Line For Days to Buy Coal. Is Biden to Blame?" by Alice Salles: Mises.org/RR_101_C

"Germany's (and Europe's) Self-Inflicted Upcoming Energy Crunch" by Weimin Chen: Mises.org/RR_101_D

"The 'Stunning Success' of the Green Revolution Is Yet Another Progressive Myth" by Kristoffer Mousten Hansen: Mises.org/RR_101_E

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Tate Fegley joins Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop to discuss his recent Mises Wire article, "Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson". As businesses increasingly interject broader "social values" into their business plans, customers are increasingly forced to make difficult decisions about how to navigate their economic behavior with ideological values. What role does the ideology of the state play in the decisions behind how businesses behave? Is a battle for power an inevitable consequence of a civil rights regime? How would these things be handled if we took property rights seriously?

This and more on this episode of Radio Rothbard.

"Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson" by Tate Fegley: Mises.org/RR_100_A

"The Equality Act's Attack on Religion Is Really about Private Property Rights" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_100_B

"The Transgender Debate Should Be about Women’s Freedom and Private Property Rights" by Jess Gill: Mises.org/RR_100_C

"To Understand Economics, First Understand Private Property" by Chris Calton: Mises.org/RR_100_D

"Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game" by Michael Rectenwald: Mises.org/RR_100_E

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On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Joseph Solis-Mullen take a look at brewing debt crises in emerging markets and how the dollar still looks good when compared to other global currencies.

"How the Fed Helped Create Another Calamity: The Ongoing Emerging Market Debt Crisis" by Joseph Solis-Mullen: Mises.org/RR_99_A

"August's Price Inflation Soared, and That Means Earnings Fell Yet Again" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_99_B

"Greenspan Would Be Proud: A Lesson in Fed Speak" by Joseph Solis-Mullen: Mises.org/RR_99_C

"It Just Might Be Time to Listen to the Austrians" by Joseph Solis-Mullen: Mises.org/RR_99_D

"Throwing the Fed's Machinery in Reverse: Fed Interest Rate Policies Continue to Damage the Economy" by Frank Shostak: Mises.org/RR_99_E

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On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the rhetoric surrounding the Federal Reserve. A growing chorus of pundits is attacking Jerome Powell for risking a recession, but this misses what has brought the economy to this point. Is it possible to get American attention spans to capture the true cause of our economic instability? Can monetary policy ride the wave of the current culture war? Ryan and Tho address this and more in this week's show.

"Inflation: State-Sponsored Terrorism" by Jeff Deist: Mises.org/RR_98_A

"Blame the Fed for Both the Inflationary Boom and the Inevitable Bust" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_98_B

"Inflation Kills" (Human Action Podcast) with Jeff Deist and Robert P. Murphy: Mises.org/RR_98_C

"We Cannot Interpret Economic Data Unless We Know Economic Theory" by Frank Shostak: Mises.org/RR_98_D

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On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Brandan Buck, a historian on the anti-war right and a recent participant at the Rothbard Graduate Seminar. The conversation looks at the parallels between modern American politics and the political climate that gave rise to America's foreign policy in the second half of the 20th Century. How did the American right get dragged into the project of liberal imperialism? Is China the new Evil Empire? How important are figures like Tucker Carlson in questioning the war narrative? These questions and more are answered in this episode.

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"No ‘Putin apologia’ and certainly not new: the Old American Right on war" by Brandan Buck: Mises.org/RR_97_A

​"Bear Any Burden: Military Sacrifice and Rise of American Populism" by Brandan Buck: Mises.org/RR_97_B

"A History of Distrust: How the Right Lost Faith in Institutions" by Brandan Buck: Mises.org/RR_97_C

"Fly Over Country, the Gunbelt, and the Nationalization of America Internationalism" by Brandan Buck: Mises.org/RR_97_D

The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard: Mises.org/RR_97_E

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In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the popularizing of the term "regime" being used against the Federal government. As a recent Bulwark article notes, this change in framing can be seen in conservative politicians like Ron DeSantis to publications like The Federalist. Ryan and Tho welcome the American right sounding more and more like Lew Rockwell, and touch on the contributions of paleoconservatives like Sam Francis.

"World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals" by Murray N. Rothbard: Mises.org/RR_96_A

​"The Problem With Right-Wing Regime Talk" by Joshua Tait: Mises.org/RR_96_B

"The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters" by Sam Adler-Bell (New York Times): Mises.org/RR_96_C

"Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets" by James Pogue (Vanity Fair): Mises.org/RR_96_D

"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" by Richard Hofstadter (Harper’s Magazine): Mises.org/RR_96_E

"Secede From the Regime" with Ryan McMaken and Lew Rockwell: Mises.org/RR_96_F

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