Recent Podcast Episodes

Could the U.S. national debt and rising Treasury yields force the Federal Reserve into a new round of money creation? Dennis Tubbergen examines the growing U.S. debt crisis, federal deficits, rising interest costs, inflation, Treasury bond yields, and the enormous amount of government debt that must be refinanced in the years ahead. Economist Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Dennis to discuss Federal Reserve independence, the relationship between the Fed and U.S. Treasury, debt monetization, interest rates, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), and his forthcoming Anti-MMT book. Dennis then explores what could happen if bond investors lose confidence in U.S. government debt, including the possibility of Federal Reserve yield curve control, renewed inflation, and declining purchasing power. For retirement investors concerned about the national debt, inflation, interest rates, bonds, monetary policy, and protecting wealth, this episode examines what the debt math may mean for your financial future.

Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute joins Darrell to discuss declining trust in government, rising interest in Austrian economics, and why he believes the current monetary system is creating deeper problems for savers and the middle class. Mark examines rising bond yields, the breakdown of the traditional 60/40 portfolio, growing allocations to gold and silver, and the possibility that governments attempt to inflate away their debt burdens.

Contrary to propaganda from unions and the maritime industry, the Jones Act creates hardships and is helping to drag down the US economy. The only proper outcome is to repeal it immediately.

Lew Rockwell revisits Justin Raimondo's great biography of Murray Rothbard. 

For more than a century, the Supreme Court has tried to interpret equality before the law in different and conflicting ways. While the law can divide people, it cannot be the source of bringing them together.

“Libertarian Realism” in foreign policy is based upon the interests of those who actually make policy decisions, as opposed to discussing abstract ideals of a false “national interest.”

European politicians keep pushing for conscription and more recruits. Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost discuss how the French Revolution gave us modern military conscription, and why governments have long wanted forced military service.

Government agents claim they are protecting us from enemies, foreign and domestic. If that is the case, then the best thing these agents can do would be to liquidate the government itself.

There is no "trust fund" or contract. Social security is nothing more than a scheme to take money from current wage earners and hand it over to others. It is functionally a welfare program. 

Socialism's failures are well-known, but true believers abound that insist that this time we can make it work. The question is why anyone still believes in it at all.

Mark Thornton asks whether precious metals are coiling for a breakout as fiat money, Fed policy, global flows, and market manipulation put pressure on gold and silver.

Populists have spent the past decade rebelling against a political system they correctly recognize as rigged. But they keep focusing on its surface-level symptoms while ignoring the institution at its center.

Dr. Mark Thornton joins Julia La Roche to explain why the bond market is the pivotal story right now. The 10- and 30-year Treasury yields are back above 5%, the national debt is over $40 trillion, and deficits are running at about $2 trillion a year.

Dr. Jonathan Newman, author and Mises Institute Research Fellow, joins the Church and State podcast to help us understand capitalism and the free market. Are they one and the same?

If we’ve been at war with Iran for 47 years, Ronald Reagan was a coward and a traitor. To be consistent, mainstream national conservatives using such language about Iran ought to condemn one of their heroes; otherwise, they don’t believe their own rhetoric.

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho toast to Mises's 145th birthday by discussing his life and legacy.

Norway’s new monarch may prove to be an effective leader, but we are reminded that his hereditary privilege is being financially supported by involuntary taxes.

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya joins Benjamin Boyce to discuss Reconstruction, the Fourteenth Amendment, and her argument that civil rights laws have expanded government power at the expense of property rights and freedom of association.

While he was living, Murray Rothbard saw issues of war and peace as being fundamental to a free society. Nothing has changed since he made that declaration.

Paul Buitink of Reinvent Money interviews Mises Institute economist Mark Thornton on AI, debt, and the Middle East.