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Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2026.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2026.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of

Norway sits on large oil deposits, yet has managed to avoid the “resource curse” that has bedeviled so many nations that have abundant natural resources, but severely mismanage their economies.

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While the democratic socialists are claiming to just want a society like they have in Denmark, their real aims are the seizure of all or most private property and especially private capital.

The Fed was sold as a check on Wall Street's power. Wall Street's share of the nation's bank reserves went up after it passed, not down. Patrick Newman on the Federal Reserve as cronyism.

Sociologists blame job instability. Legal scholars blame deregulation. Jeffrey Degner noticed all the clues point back to the same address: the Federal Reserve.

We assume people are self-interested in the market and selfless in government. Tate Fegley on why dropping that double standard explains almost everything about how the state actually behaves.

Everyone wants the one key to economic growth—capital, or technology, or trade. Shawn Ritenour argues there is no single key, and that's exactly what the models keep missing.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2026.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of

A Nobel laureate says some markets are too repugnant to allow and need clever redesign instead. Sandy Klein has a simpler answer: repugnance is just a preference, and the price system already knows what to do with it.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2026.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of

Crony capitalism—where politics help decide success and failure in the markets—is a huge problem in our society. The solution is laissez-faire capitalism in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard.

A trade deficit sounds like losing—buying more than you sell. Lucas Engelhardt on why that 200-year-old intuition is exactly backwards, and what a deficit actually means.