Guns and Butter

As the midterms helped demonstrate, the post-covid inflation crisis and both parties' disinterest in actually solving it has put incumbents at a tremendous disadvantage. And that has become the defining political dynamic of the 2020s.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/inflation-hot-potato2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I through November 30. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

Trump’s apparent willingness to restart his unpopular war with Iran after next week’s elections reveals a fundamental problem with modern mass democracy. And, in doing so, it helps clarify how public opinion actually affects government.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/iran-midterms-and-myth-government-people2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I through November 30. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel may provide Americans a little relief from high energy prices. The same economic logic applies to the thousands of other sanctions Washington continues to enforce.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-right-lift-diesel-sanctions-russia-he-should-go-further2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy through October 31. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

We often remember the thinkers who defended liberty when its prospects looked bleak, and for good reason. But we should also remember the people who supported them and made their work possible without knowing what would follow.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/invisible-heroes-our-tradition2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy through October 31. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

Populists have spent the past decade rebelling against a political system they correctly recognize as rigged. But they keep focusing on its surface-level symptoms while ignoring the institution at its center.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-our-populist-moment-keeps-failing2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy through October 31. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

Trump showed how effective it can be to simply declare success and let supporters believe it. Other politicians are taking notes, even as the problems they all pretend to have addressed continue to grow.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/politics-faking-success2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure through September 30. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

The top AI CEOs aren't acting like they genuinely believe their technology will soon cause human extinction. But they are acting like the successful cartelizers of history, who recognized that state power is the best way to protect market dominance.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-ai-ceos-really-want-be-regulated2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure through September 30. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

The neoliberal establishment has done much to define our highly-interventionist, inflationary, and crony system as true free-market capitalism. They shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that people are turning against it.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-neoliberals-fueled-rise-socialism2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure through September 30. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar through August 31. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith.Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/flock-camera-backlash-very-good-sign2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar through August 31. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebookBe sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB