Recent Podcast Episodes

Mark Thornton explains how ideology can break the uniparty, why blocked realignment risks revolution, and why Austrian economics helps young Americans see through the crisis.

Fauci is back in the limelight after the release of his diary before a Senate hearing last week. And that’s good, because the career of Anthony Fauci can teach us a lot about where power actually resides in America and how our system really works.

Much of the discussion around American healthcare ignores the fact that most of the American healthcare system is already a government healthcare system. 

Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into 1776.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the social debate this week focused on Gen Z economic anxiety.

Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of the way.

In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. 

Bob returns to the fractional reserve banking debate to clarify a point the critics keep missing: in the Mises-Hayek-Rothbard framework, it's fractional reserve banking itself that sets the boom-bust cycle in motion, not merely central banks.

Deflate the dollars, or redefine the dollar’s weight—or some blend of the two.

Not a novelty but an inheritance: Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, and hard-money.

An opponent of gold describes the 100 percent standard better than its friends do.

The supply of money, Rothbard answers, essentially does not matter.

Issuing receipts for gold that does not exist is not banking. It is fraud.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory.

The first intervention was not inflation. It was the seizure of the mint.

If dollars are things in themselves, why may not everyone manufacture them?

To argue for a full gold standard is to risk being classed with the dodo bird.

Bretton Woods was a dollar standard wearing the prestige of gold.

Dr. Mark Thornton joins David Lin to discuss the AI investment surge, tariffs, inflation, the Fed’s interest-rate dilemma, and the broader risks facing the economy.