Recent Podcast Episodes

A historic metals shakeout, a simple “stacking plan,” and a bigger question: how do you stay independent when the system punishes savers?

If one man may legally own another, then he should likewise have the right to disown this property. To deny this right by law involves simultaneously affirming the right of one human to own another as his property but not the right to stop owning another human.

Joshua Mawhorter joins Ryan and Connor to talk about the dueling Superbowl Halftime Shows, the latest jobs report, and Trump’s deadly and counterproductive deportation operation in Minnesota.

Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits are badly mistaken.

The administration dismissed concerns about the last nuclear treaty between the US and Russia formally expiring last week. But even if this isn’t an exceptionally dangerous moment in itself, the end of New START reflects an incredibly disturbing trend.

The similarities between the EU and the USSR are striking, and they are not just a coincidence. 

Statists love to claim that government services would be better if only they were “fully funded.” However, given their nature, government services always will be seen as “underfunded” no matter how much money politicians throw at them.

Is it illegal to carry a gun to a demonstration against ICE? According to the Trump Administration, it is. 

What happens when historical fiction becomes a more accurate portrayal than the version of history given by mainstream historians?

Bob Murphy talks with Keith Smith, MD, about an alternative to the cartel of big hospitals and insurers.

In the United States, since no state is allowed to ever leave, or to even control its own borders. This will lead to more centralized political power in every way.

A “defense” surge, no audit, and mountains of debt. Welcome to the national security state.

Today, the term "Austrian economics" is used to designate two very different paradigms.

Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and their goals.

The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.

Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics.

Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute and Christopher Calton of the Independent Institute talk about why politicians want higher home prices. Even Trump now admits he wants higher home prices, and it's because older voters want their asset prices to go up forever.

Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.

From time to time, the American people need to be reminded who is the boss. The boss is the US government. The citizenry are the serfs, the servants, the subordinates.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the fallout from the release of the Epstein Files and what it means for how the masses view the elite.