Recent Podcast Episodes

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look past the political circus of midterm candidate campaigns to the state ballot initiatives on the ballot around the country.

The federal government has poured billions of dollars into the mental health industry, and the result seems to be even more diagnosed mental illnesses with no relief in sight.

Cuba’s economy is collapsing in large part because the US government is engaged in illegal and immoral economic warfare against it.

As government grows and people on most sides of the political debates demand government punish their political enemies, we are seeing an increase in political violence. Government cannot prevent this violence; government is the violence.

From a Misesian and Rothbardian perspective, can the absence of a unified and centralized state, under certain conditions, create greater space for political pluralism, institutional competition, and constraints on state power? Kurdistan might provide some answers.

Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former slaves and helped to set off violence and strife.

The free market isn’t an entity that exists in a vacuum, but a social condition that exists under a specific cultural strand that respects individuality and proportionality in regards to competition—willingness to accept loss when outcompeted. 

Mark Thornton argues that government efforts to hold down oil prices may be prolonging shortages and setting the stage for an even worse energy crisis.

Dr. Jonathan Newman discusses the evolution of socialism and the roots of modern socialist movements with KPNW Radio host Bill Lundun.

This week, Bob does a deep dive on the accounting argument at the heart of MMT, as a teaser for his chapter in the Mises Institute’s forthcoming book, Anti-MMT: The Errors of Modern Monetary Theory. 
 

The people making foreign policy are not disinterested servants of some objectively identifiable “national interest.” They are people and interest groups that respond to incentives and self-interest like everyone else.

Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel may provide Americans a little relief from high energy prices. The same economic logic applies to the thousands of other sanctions Washington continues to enforce.

Mark Thornton joins Sound Money Matters to discuss how runaway government debt and inflation undermine working families—and how gold and silver could help restore monetary discipline. He also examines the risks behind the AI boom and practical steps toward currency competition, including removing tax barriers to using precious metals.

Mark Thornton joins Wall Street Bullion to discuss what gold and silver reveal about declining confidence in the dollar, how government debt is squeezing the private economy, and why the AI boom could be vulnerable to a bust. He also examines the risks of central bank digital currencies and the case for sound money.

From new wars to vaccine mandates, we're told to trust the government because the government supposedly has special knowledge inaccessible to mere ordinary citizens. This is just a form of government propaganda.

As debt, inflation, and war erode trust in Washington, Mark Thornton argues that real reform must come from the bottom up—not from the political establishment.

On this episode of Power and Market, Patrick Newman joins Ryan and Tho for a discussion on Social Security, generational economic tensions, and the latest inflation numbers (spoiler: they're bad.)

New price inflation data from the federal government shows that rising prices are outpacing wage growth yet again. Overall inflation is broader and bigger than forecasters have expected, and it's not just being caused by the War in Iran.

Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu writes that western colonialism of African countries has permanently fixed their institutional direction. This ignores what we know about the history of these nations.

Dr. Mark Thornton shares his outlook for gold and silver, laying out the factors that have been weighing on prices and commenting on what may kick off their next leg higher — in his view, the return of speculators could provide a boost.