Recent Podcast Episodes

While we should not fear mass unemployment from AI, it is true that some jobs will be displaced, including many BS jobs.

Nathan Cofnas exposed a major fraud in elite British academics. For that, prosecutors want to put him in prison because the academic left prefers fantasy to the truth.

Q: What's the difference between socialism and communism? A: In practice, they're pretty much the same thing. Ryan McMaken and Ruel Domi talk about the debate over what terms like socialism, communism, Marxism, and democratic socialism mean.

What makes a nation? Is it simply a collection of ideals or does it depend upon one’s lineage, and “blood and soil”? In reality, nations are complex creations where both ideals and ties to the land are important.

Although they never actually accomplished it, one of the worst things the Keynesians did was convince some people that they had refuted Say's law of markets.

Many have misstated Say’s Law for years. J. M. Keynes incorrectly attributed a concept to Say that he did not hold: “supply creates its own demand.” Even the great Thomas Sowell restated this error.

As government debt, energy shortages, political unrest, and war risks converge, Mark Thornton argues that Western statism is approaching a reckoning.

Trump’s apparent willingness to restart his unpopular war with Iran after next week’s elections reveals a fundamental problem with modern mass democracy. And, in doing so, it helps clarify how public opinion actually affects government.

Twenty-five years ago, in the immediate wake of 9/11, Ron Paul did not propose doing nothing. Instead, he proposed targeting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda rather than launching a global War on Terror.

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.