It's ... Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.
On today's episode: Nigeria gets a GDP surprise, Magic the Gathering mutes tariff impact for Hasbro, and Bitcoin reaches record highs following the passage of the GENIUS Act.
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Audio Mises Wire - MMTers Love When Governments Burn Money
Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the history and the causes wrong.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmters-love-when-governments-burn-money
Consider This from NPR - Six months in, how Trump has changed the Education Department.
Federal education policy has seen a lot of changes since President Trump's inauguration. For example, the Department of Education itself, which Trump has vowed to close.
But that hasn't stopped the Trump administration from also wielding the Department's power. Most recently, by withholding billions of dollars for K-12 schools.
The Trump administration has drastically changed the federal government's role in education. What does that mean for American classrooms?
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But that hasn't stopped the Trump administration from also wielding the Department's power. Most recently, by withholding billions of dollars for K-12 schools.
The Trump administration has drastically changed the federal government's role in education. What does that mean for American classrooms?
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Audio Mises Wire - An Open Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent
Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/open-letter-treasury-secretary-bessent
Audio Mises Wire - Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson
The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposes the lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/private-property-and-customer-safety-starbucks-learns-hard-lesson
The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Conspiracies Left and Right
As the Trump administration presses a case against the Obamans for pursuing Trump maliciously in 2016 and 2017, liberals and populists are pressing for more and more information on the confusing matter of Jeffrey Epstein. Is there an "omniconspiracy" of the American elites? And we take a look at the remarkable deal struck between the administration and Columbia University. Give a listen.
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Bad Faith - Episode 494 – What Happened to AOC? (w/ Corbin Trent)
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Co-founder of Justice Democrats and former communications director for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Corbin Trent talks AOC’s excuses for voting against Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment to pull weapons funding to Israel, whether AOC’s failures are evidence that it’s impossible to work within the Democratic Party, the Democrats’ hesitation to exploit Epstein, and how establishment Dems work to defeat not only progressive electeds but bedrock progressive policies like expanding abortion access.
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A press freedom special with Georgian journalist Tamar Kintsurashvili, on the worsening situation for media workers in the country gripped by protests. Also: Natalia Belikova, international lawyer at Press Club Belarus, on how Belarusian exile journalists are fairing. Then, Olga Rudenko, editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, talks about the situation for journalists during the war in Ukraine.
Cato Podcast - The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful
Adam Michel, Michael Cannon, and Dominik Lett break down the One Big Beautiful Bill. Is it $3.4 trillion, or actually $6 trillion? Is Medicaid getting a cut or a trim? With spending cuts pushed to later years and tax benefits front-loaded, the scholars dissect the political calculations and baseline accounting that shaped this massive piece of legislation.
Show Notes:
Michael F. Cannon, Krit Chanwong, and Dominik Lett, "Congress Must Cut and Reform Medicaid" cato.org, April 28, 2025
Domink Lett, "The Senate’s Big Beautiful Blunder Could Increase the Debt by $6 Trillion" cato.org, July 2, 2025
Adam Michel, "A Fiscal Hawk’s Defense of the GOP’s Deficit-Busting Budget Bill" cato.org, July 10, 2025
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Audio Mises Wire - Do WNBA Players Really Want to Be Paid What They Are Owed?
At the recent WNBA All-Star game, players wore T-shirts with the message, “Pay us what you owe us.” If one uses the discounted marginal revenue product as a guide, the answer to their demand would be “zero.”
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-wnba-players-really-want-be-paid-what-they-are-owed