Austrian Economics

Wilhelm Röpke Diagnosed Austrian Economics Flaw: It Needed Morals

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Most of you know, have read, and love and admire Professor Tom Woods. He’s affiliated with the Mises Institute, has written about von Mises. Many of you go to LewRockwell.com and you're very familiar with von Mises’ work. You're probably not familiar with Röpke’s. The reason you’re not familiar with Röpke is because, one, Röpke was a Catholic, and, two, he let his Catholicism dictate to him what he thought about economics. Check out […]

August 27, 2015 24

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 1 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1944, that of a well-known libertarian, non-interventionist student of Austrian economic theory and supporter of former Congressman Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell.

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Transcripts

What Is Worse Than Socialism?

Answer: Austrian Economics Without Morals Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Another story that we have here today, and we can apply a little bit of philosophy of Wisdom Wednesday to this, and that is that we now have in earnest a field of either eleven or twelve candidates for president in the Republican field." Check out today’s transcript for the rest…. Begin Mike Church Show Transcript Mike: Another story that […]

May 11, 2015 30

Daily Clip

Wisdom Wednesday: Small Business Is [r]epublican AND Christian

Why Should Small Businesses Be Important To Every American? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Let’s set out from the outset here, these Wisdom Wednesday conversations with David Simpson that we have are meant to be provocative. They are meant to challenge some current, secular orthodoxy that most people hold and to try to get to the root of it: Upon what is this based?" Check out today’s transcript AND Clip […]

February 1, 2015 32

Interviews

Ron Paul – Hey Fed! It’s The Free Market Stupid, Pt I

"In 1971 it happened, and that’s when I started speaking out [about the Fed.] Really nobody listened. There were a lot of seeds planted about sound money, especially by Murray and others, and Mises. They talked about this. There was no audience out there. I would go to campuses, when I first went into Congress, and I would get 20 or 30 people come out and maybe convert one or […]

December 30, 2014 39

Transcripts

Do We Live Under Socialism or Oligarchy?

We Do NOT Live Under Socialism But Are Robbed In An Oligarchy Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Socialist. This is another word that is used far too often and used in an inappropriate context. What we have is an oligarchy. We don’t have a socialism. There’s a difference. An oligarchy is where the system is rigged for the haves at the expense of the have-less. There is a massive transfer […]

October 30, 2014 23

Transcripts

Government Price Controls In Emergencies Never Work

Austrian Economics 101 Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "For those of you that are free marketers out there, I’m not breaking any news here. It shouldn’t go unnoticed, though, that as soon as an event like this happens, the first people that want to jump on the accusation train and start hurling all manner of epithet and calumny against those that would raise the price for something like water, it’s […]

August 12, 2014 20

Daily Clip

Rothbard – Government Debt Is Worse Than Private Debt

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "If you are one of those that is in the employ of, as an example, one of these companies that is part of the military-industrial complex, is building bombs to destroy property in countries you can’t point to on a map while we are not at war with any country, you are partaking of this. What is so hard to understand about this? [mocking] “Mike, […]

April 3, 2014 42

Transcripts

Obamacare Makes Everybody’s Dreams Come True

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you call the HealthCare.gov website, since the Constitution and the federal leviathan now exist to make people’s dreams come true, if I push the right button or if I have the right coupon code, can I get a free dreamcatcher? You know those things that are made by Native Americans, those dreamcatcher gizmos? It’s round, has some feathers and some leather tassels hanging […]

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