Walter Block is interviewed by Grégoire Canlorbe of Institut Coppet on a variety of topics including modern Catholic social teaching, consumer sovereignty, and more: 

The Power and Market Report: “Has the Oil Bubble Popped?“ 

On PressTV: Mark is interviewed in the segment “Russia takes ‘retaliatory measures’ against US over sanctions.” 

On the Scott Horton Show. 

Last month marked the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Convention at which the New  England states contemplated secession from the Union (See Tom diLorenzo on the topic here).

Back in 2008, in response to the GOP rush to nominate future ISIS supporter John McCain, Lew Rockwell wrote “Triumph of the Red-State Fascists” in which he examined how the (alleged) opposition to big government on the American right always takes a back seat to militarism and the conservative knee-jerk support for heavy-handed government in the pursuit of “order.” Rockwell writes: 

Peter Klein discusses professional and quasi professional, and the role of crony capitalism in sports, on Power Trading Radio, plus what 2015 holds for markets.

There’s nothing bad about drilling for oil. And there’s nothing bad about the fact that the industry has created a lot of jobs. It is problematic however, that the industry is highly leveraged and reliant on easy money policies to keep the exploration and drilling going. Similarly, there was nothing bad about building a lot of housing during the 1990s and 2000s. The problems arose not from the fact that homes were being built, but from the fact that they were built on a mountain of debt based on easy money.