2025 Supporters Summit

The Danger of Deflation (Phobia)

Joseph T. Salerno — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:30:00 -0500

Dr. Joe Salerno shows how market‑led falling prices spread growth gains even when nominal wages don’t change. The takeaway: don’t fear natural deflation—fear policies that target permanent inflation.

Sponsored by Murray and Florence Sabrin.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Freedom in Money: Hayek’s Competing Currencies, the Fed, Gold, and Crypto

Alex J. Pollock — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0500

Alex Pollock explains how monopoly money empowers the state to finance deficits and wars, and why legal tender laws should give way to free choice in money. He explores why genuine competitors—likely led by gold—would discipline issuers, noting central banks’ renewed appetite for bullion as an emergent currency competition.

Private Property: The Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty

James Bovard — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0500

James Bovard surveys attacks on property rights—from “open-fields” searches and no-knock raids to eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture—showing how each erodes privacy and freedom.

Freedom as a Tonic for Social Conflict

Shawn Ritenour — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:20:00 -0600

Dr. Shawn Ritenour draws on Mises to show that specialization and trade align long-run interests and raise living standards when prices are guided by sound money. He also argues that state interventions—especially Fed bailouts and credit expansion—pit citizen against citizen and fuel inequality, underscoring the need for real economic education of the kind fostered by the Mises Institute.

Land of the Free? Government Mismanagement of America’s Open Spaces

Timothy D. Terrell — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:20:00 -0600

Dr. Timothy Terrell explains how the federal government’s vast land holdings breed crowding, decay, and wildfire risk—and why returning land to private owners, guided by prices and responsibility, yields healthier parks and forests.

Sponsored by Brian and Shanna Tvenstrup.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

How to Counter Arguments That Taxation Is Legitimate

David Gordon — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:20:00 -0600

Dr. David Gordon explains why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel & Murphy’s “myth of ownership”—collapse, and why natural rights still say taxation is theft.

Sponsored by Jane Shaffer, in Memory of Butler Shaffer.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

How to End the Fed

Jonathan Newman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:10:00 -0600

Dr. Jonathan Newman explains why we don’t need a central bank, and lays out a concrete, Rothbard-inspired plan for actually ending the Fed.

Crusoe: the Man, the Myth, the Legend

Jeffrey M. Herbener — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 04:32:27 -0600

Dr. Jeffrey Herbener explains why “Crusoe economics” isn’t a caricature but the indispensable starting point for economics and liberty—built from action, property, and exchange.

The Tyranny of Phony Civil Rights

Wanjiru Njoya — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 04:32:28 -0600

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya explains how “phony civil rights” expand state power at the expense of self-ownership and property, and offers a conservative-libertarian case for liberty rooted in reality.

US Trade Deficits: Blame Nixon, Not China

Robert P. Murphy — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:12:31 -0600

Dr. Robert Murphy explains why America’s chronic trade deficits trace to Nixon’s 1971 gold exit—not China—and how a popular reading of Triffin’s “dilemma” confuses the issue.

Sponsored by Dan Johnson and Randee Laskewitz.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Liberating the American University

Peter G. Klein — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:30:28 -0600

Dr. Peter Klein explains why truly “liberating the American university” means cutting all state ownership, funding, and regulation—not just tweaking DEI programs or research grants—and letting genuinely private institutions compete to provide higher education.

How Destructive Are Regulations?

Per Bylund — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:30:28 -0600

Dr. Per Bylund explains how prosperity really comes from imaginative, risk-taking entrepreneurs rather than redistribution, and how regulations quietly kill off an unseen world of potential innovations and wealth that never gets a chance to exist.