Recent Podcast Episodes

Mark Thornton explains the Fed’s real problem: the power to paper over debt, deficits, war, and market cracks until the bill hits consumers.

There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state.

In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. 

Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore.

California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done.

The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system.

As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities.

Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. 

Mark Thornton explains why Austrian economics matters, and why gold, debt, the Fed, and the dollar all point back to the same problem: government money.

A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution.

Dr. Patrick Newman speaks to Bob about his new book, which reviews how big business built the regulatory state, the Fed, and cartels like the AMA, all justified in the name of the "public interest."

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about the growing populist backlash to Flock cameras and the AI-powered security state.

After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change.

The backlash against automated license plate readers is not really about traffic cameras. It is about a public that no longer assumes the people in charge are acting in good faith.

Mises Institute Senior Fellow Mark Thornton joins Wall Street Bullion to discuss the outlook for gold and silver, the consequences of decades of monetary inflation, and the growing risks created by Federal Reserve policy and government debt. Thornton also explains why younger Americans are increasingly feeling the effects of the fiat-money system—and what a more resilient, bottom-up approach to protecting wealth might look like in the years ahead.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stated plans for five city-owned grocery stores to compete with private stores in NYC. However, as Henry Hazlitt and Frederic Bastiat before him have pointed out, the unseen costs in an initiative like this will outweigh the “seen” benefits.

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.

The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong.

Kevin Duffy reads gold's bull market through an Austrian investor's lens — America's "imperial bubble" and the gold demand driving it from a rising East.

Ryan McMaken shows how seizing control of money was central to building the modern state — a centuries-long project that culminated in World War I destroying the gold standard.