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Why Smart People Are Rightly Confused About Tariffs | Mark Thornton
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Featured videos from the Mises Institute. The Mises Institute promotes Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the liberal intellectual tradition of Ludwig von Mises through research, publishing, and education.
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- Why Smart People Are Rightly Confused About Tariffs | Mark Thornton · 43 minReplacing the income tax, protecting American workers, serving as a negotiating tool, reducing the national deficit, reducing national debt, and more. We’re told that tariffs are…
- Dr. Keith Smith: What Critics Miss About For-Profit Healthcare · 51 minFor just $25, you can receive our December Bundle, including three essential reads: Tom DiLorenzo's Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents, Per Bylund's How to Think…
- Is Russia a “Realist” Power? · 48 minOn this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Zachary Yost to discuss a new book, *The Source of Russian Aggression* by Sumantra Maitra. The three…
- The Establishment’s “Principles” Are Fake · 5 minThe Biden administration, and the political establishment more broadly, is scrambling to ram through policies that a majority of voters just voted against. Their actions expose…
- Legalizing Drugs: How to Make America Great Again | Mark Thornton · 8 minIs the black-market economy immune to inflation? It would seem that the price of illegal pot has been declining or steady for several years while legal pot is higher in price and…
- 2025’s Federal Deficit May Be the Biggest Ever | Ryan McMaken · 9 minIf you thought federal deficits and spending would go back to normal after the covid panic, you were wrong. If anything, deficits are now on track to be bigger than the covid…
- What's More "Wicked" than the Crime of '73? · 44 minFor just $25, you can receive our December Bundle, including three essential reads: Tom DiLorenzo's Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents, Per Bylund's How to Think…
- Why Politicians Love Tariffs · 37 minMises Institute President Tom DiLorenzo joins Ryan McMaken to look at the many ways that the taxes, known as “tariffs,” destroy wealth and empower the state. Donate $25 or more…
- Progressivism and the Murder of a Health Insurance CEO · 9 minProgressives are openly cheering the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. However, it was progressive legislation that created this healthcare crisis in the first place. Read…
- Fiscal Folly | Mark Thornton · 8 minMark Thornton discusses why increased government spending not only explains ongoing wayward increases in the GDP, employment, and stock price numbers, but also why so many people…
- Trump Faces a Mess of an Economy · 50 minInterest rates, inflation, home prices, and federal spending all pose big challenges to a Trump administration that is ill-prepared to deal with the deep-seated problems in the…
- The FBI Has Been Political from the Start · 5 minThe Washington political establishment is alarmed that President-elect Trump wants to appoint Kash Patel as FBI director, claiming that Trump’s choice will “politicize” the FBI…
- Responding to Bryan Caplan's Continued Critique of the Austrians · 46 minIn 1997, Bryan Caplan wrote an essay explaining why he was no longer a self-described Austrian. Recently, a reader asked him to comment on that essay. Bob reacts to Bryan's…
- What Has Government Done to Our World? | Mark Thornton · 12 minIn *What Has Government Done to Our Money?* Murray Rothbard changes your whole view of the world—not just money. He opens our eyes and clarifies the mysteries of money, banking…
- Why Communists Don't Like Thanksgiving · 22 minIn this episode, Ryan McMaken takes a look at how the domestic and commercial rituals of the Thanksgiving holiday are things that communists really don't like. Register for…
- Don’t Sell DOGE Short—Yet · 7 minIt is unlikely many of the Department of Government Efficiency's recommendations will ever be implemented. The value of the DOGE lies in how it exposes government waste. Read the…
- Clarifying Economists' Arguments About International Trade · 49 minBob discusses common talking points that pro-free-trade economists often use when making the case against tariffs. The purpose is to facilitate discussion so both sides have a…
- Gold Is the Answer to Prohibition | Mark Thornton · 38 minThe gold standard hampers the growth of government power, which helps people more effectively fight bad policy—like the disastrous War on Drugs. Order a free paperback copy of…
- Will Foreign Policy Really Be Different Under Trump? · 1 h 8 minRyan McMaken and Zachary Yost look at some of the ways Trump’s foreign policy might actually be a step in the right direction. Register for Educating for Liberty: Mises Circle in…
- President Biden Gives the Green Light to an Act of War against Russia · 5 minIn an outrageous act, lame-duck President Joe Biden gives Ukraine permission to fire US-made missiles into Russia itself. Given Russian President Putin's declaration that this…
