Recent Podcast Episodes

Gold is up, bitcoin is cooling, the yield curve turning. 2026 could un-invert the story.

Instead of market competition, inflation forces young and old into rivalrous competition for housing.

Ryan and Josh Mawhorter talk about how Thomas Hobbes, even nearly 400 years later, remains a popular spokesman for almost limitless state power. In fact, by Hobbes's logic, the world should by ruled by a single global dictatorship. 

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor reflect on what they view as the biggest stories and themes of the year.

Connor O’Keeffe joins Rob Kientz on The Freedom Report for a wide-ranging conversation on Austrian economics, government power, and why today’s affordability crisis is no accident.

If employment reports continue to show growing economic stagnation, calls for more monetary inflation and government spending will only grow.

The US economy is hooked on easy money and artificially low interest rates. Huge credit expansions are not “stimulating” the economy; they are destroying it.

Only a couple years ago, climate change was a major political issue. Now it’s strangely absent from public discourse. Why did this happen?

Mark Thornton appears on the Scott Horton Show to discuss the state of the economy.

In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood that in a free society, inequality is inevitable, and it is something we must accept.

President Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Cheryl Daley on The Homeschool How To Podcast.

The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First Amendment had almost nothing to do with it.

Bob uses clips from his recent interview with Eric Weinstein to explain why Weinstein thinks gauge theory can fix how economists measure the cost of living, and why Austrians shouldn’t dismiss him as a crank.

While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with risk management.

For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done is protect farmland.

Policy-made rates reshape everything: mortgages, bonds, stocks, and commodities.

Data shows that the marriage rate and the homeownership rate have been closely connected for decades. Historically, more marriage means more home buying, but government intervention has made buying a home much harder. 

Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same kinds of assets earlier generations procured. The result is inter-generational conflict.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down the latest FOMC meeting, the real takeaways from Powell’s Fed talk, and the continuing realities of Obamacare.