Radio Rothbard

There's no reason to assume 2021 will bring a reversal of 2020's trends. Many of the fights that began in 2020 are likely to intensify in the new year. 

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Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop debate whether Ebenezer Scrooge's words and actions teach us important economic truths, or if he's just an ignorant crank.

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"The Case for Ebenezer" by Butler Shaffer: Mises.org/RR_45_01

"Scrooge Defended" by Michael Levin: Mises.org/RR_45_02

"Defending the Miser" by Walter Block: Mises.org/RR_45_03

"Was Scrooge the Victim in A Christmas Carol?" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_45_04

"Correcting Scrooge's Economics" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_45_05

"Ebenezer Scrooge's Tiresome Crusade Against 'Consumerism'" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_45_06

"This Christmas, Let's Celebrate a Different Scrooge: Scrooge McDuck" by Kristoffer Mousten Hansen: Mises.org/RR_45_07

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Expect more of the same in 2021. The Fed has no real plan. It is just lurching from one crisis to the next, hoping more easy money will buy some time. It's been doing this since 2008, and there's little chance it will stop now.

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We begin to understand the electoral college when we admit the United States is really supposed to be a collection of member states, and not a single unified nation. Abolishing the EC is likely to worsen national conflict and disunity.

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The GOP is at its worst when it's run by the old Bush-Romney-Cheney faction that was in power before Trump. Will "Trumpism" endure, or will the party go back to its old warmongering, pro-establishment ways?

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Murray Rothbard was enthusiastic about fighting for laissez-faire and freedom through both scholarship and political activism. He wasn't afraid to push freedom and free markets with everyone he could, including academics, politicians, the media, and the public.

"3 Reasons the Left Keeps Winning" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_41_1

"Why GOP Loyalists and Candidates Keep Moving Left" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_41_2

"Both Theory and Praxis: Rothbard's Plan for Laissez-Faire Activism" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_41_3

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The votes still aren't counted, but when it's all over, we'll still be in a country at war with itself over which half of the country gets to boss around the other half. Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the failure of the pollsters, the imaginary Blue Wave, and the end of naive democracy.

"The Election Was a Tie. Now What?" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_40_3

"Close Elections Force Us to Ask Unpleasant Questions about Democracy" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_40_2

"Why Threats of Election Violence May Be Here to Stay" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_40_1

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Why did Murray Rothbard embrace populism and why did he think it could work to limit the power of the state? In short, Rothbard believed that a small elite had seized the power of the state to fleece and oppress the majority. Rothbard was in part basing his ideas on the historical narrative of the Democratic populists of the nineteenth century who formed the party of sound money, low taxes, and decentralized power. This laissez-faire party also managed to win a lot of elections.

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