Recent Podcast Episodes

Dr. Robert Murphy explains why America’s chronic trade deficits trace to Nixon’s 1971 gold exit—not China—and how a popular reading of Triffin’s “dilemma” confuses the issue.

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya explains how “phony civil rights” expand state power at the expense of self-ownership and property, and offers a conservative-libertarian case for liberty rooted in reality.

Dr. Jeffrey Herbener explains why “Crusoe economics” isn’t a caricature but the indispensable starting point for economics and liberty—built from action, property, and exchange.

Bob revisits capital and interest theory to show why the textbook result “interest = MPK” only holds in a one-good world, and why in actual markets the interest rate emerges from time, prices, and capital valuation—not raw productivity.

Seven “economic sins” share one root: monetary inflation—fueling higher prices, inequality, debt, war, and even moral decay.

Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the latest jobs number data, what it means for the affordability crisis, the legacy of Dick Cheney, and Thanksgiving favorites."

On the John Curley Show, Ryan McMaken presents a practical case for strengthening families by shrinking Leviathan’s reach.

The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place.

Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more. 

Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what they are and how to fix them.

We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible.

Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.

Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s early libertarians.

Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they don’t settle the scientific status of the field.

Four interviews in one cut: gold’s whiplash, ballooning debt, and what it all means for your wallet.

The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist. 

The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why.

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about Trump's FDR-like proposal of a 50-year mortgage and the unfortunate reality that it seems to be one of the only actual policy ideas Republicans have left to "address" affordability.

November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.