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[Michael the Libertarian 🇺🇸 ☭⃠ @Bl00dOld]

Read more Rothbard, folks!

[David Brady Jr. @realDavidBJr]

Modern America through a Rothbardian lens

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Rothmus Those who are opposed to corporations and favor government do not realize that government is simply the largest, most monopolistic corporation of all and it has a monopoly on violence.

[Austrolibertaria @AustroLibertari]

If you are new to Austrian Econ check out this episode of the @HumanActionPod with @BobMurphyEcon that released last week. He really goes into why Ludwig von Mises is important and gives a digestible framework on the early Austrian school and what they contributed. Link below

[Jp Cortez @JpCortez27]

Advocates of sound money have long said, "if you don't hold it, you don't own it."

Among debt concerns, bond market jitters, and general geopolitical tension, central bankers across the globe are finally seeing the wisdom in the advice.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

I'm very honored - and surprised - to receive the Koether Award for my Entrepreneurship and Evolutionary Economics. 🙏

[Mises Institute @mises]

In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Meaning of Socialism by Michael Luntley. While acknowledging that Luntley has some good insights, overall, he find the work lacking a full understanding of socialism.

https://t.co/7hFNCqBIm2

[Mises Institute @mises]

Congratulations to @PerBylund, the recipient of the 2026 George F. Koether Free-Market Writing Award for his book Entrepreneurship and Evolutionary Economics.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

Alex Pollock on "What the Fed Can and Cannot Do" at the Mises Supporters Summit 2026.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

Stay tuned. Happening soon.

[Mises Institute @mises]

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[Matthew Tanous @MatthewTanous]

“The AIs will always be leftist because they are trained on leftist material” is something I hear commonly, but @grok here seems like it’s been reading @mises and @tuttletwins to learn the truth of the matter.

[DAN J 🛩️ @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@Handre @mises Perhaps more than any other single book, THIS ONE changed my mind in so many ways. Available from https://t.co/BCHmkyopLY in a combined volume that is one of the most powerful books you can own.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

About to get started, the Mises Supporters Summit 2026: "100 Years of Rothbard" https://t.co/Njp9gzgdQT

[Handre @Handre]

Why does everything a government touches turn to shit?

Every tax, regulation, and price control produces an economic consequence its architects either ignore or actively conceal from you.

Murray Rothbard's Power and Market, published in 1970, tears apart the intellectual cover governments use to justify intervention. Rothbard builds the case like this: no form of state interference improves on the voluntary exchange economy. Every intervention distorts prices, misallocates capital, and ultimately harms the very people the policy claimed to protect.

Take price ceilings. New York City imposed rent control in 1943 as a wartime emergency. Eight decades later, landlords still face legal caps on rents, and the city faces a perpetual housing shortage. Capping prices below market rates destroys the incentive to supply. Investors channel capital elsewhere, housing stock deteriorates, and you pay more for less under the table through bribes, key fees, and "finder's fees" to brokers.

Rothbard also categorizes interventions. Autistic intervention forces you to act or refrain without directly involving your property in exchange. Binary intervention forces an exchange between the state and a private party. Triangular intervention forces exchange between two private parties on state-dictated terms. The specificity matters because each category produces distinct distortions, and grouping them all as "regulation" lets politicians dodge accountability for the specific damage each one causes.

Then there is the calculation issue. Governments do not possess the price signals needed to allocate resources correctly. Mises already proved this in 1920, and Rothbard extends the argument: intervention actively destroys the information system that makes optimization possible in the first place.

Free market thinkers after Rothbard have added data, case studies, and formalized models. None have overturned the logic. Governments intervene, prices lie, and you bear the cost.

[Mises Institute @mises]

The traditional explanation of the Panic of 1837 recognizes that excessive bank credit expansion generates inflation, speculation, and economic instability. Yet, most wrongly assume a national bank was the solution to those problems. | Joshua Mawhorter

https://t.co/eT01PzES5g

[Mises Institute @mises]

As the economy becomes increasingly uncertain and confusing, the metals markets are responding. It is time to take a close look at them. | @DrMarkThornton

https://t.co/9pUgC8v9gx

[Mises Institute @mises]

The demise of American coinage is the story of US money in a nutshell. Coins were made of gold and silver. Today, even coins of base metals have face values less than the value of the metal itself. | Dale Batko

https://t.co/GfRzsyUARv

[Mises Institute @mises]

No matter how many times Austrians debunk the Paradox of Thrift, it appears in one form or another, this time in The Atlantic, which claims that retirees are too miserly in spending their savings, thus putting the economy in danger. | William L. Anderson

https://t.co/rEzJEas0ir

[Mises Media @mises_media]

Printing money is a tax that is never voted on and never appears on a bill. @DrMarkThornton on why Mises and Rothbard treated currency debasement as the most destructive form of taxation, and the one that is easiest to hide. #MinorIssues

[Mises Institute @mises]

Frightened citizens in wartime tend to demand even more centralization and state power in the name of protection. However, the centralized state can never deliver what they want. | Maksym Vlasenko

https://t.co/E0skRkNygE