Recent Podcast Episodes

Long before there was the infamous German inflation of 1923, the Reichsbank created the scenario of monetary debasement.

Investors should not care whether the Fed pivots or not if they analyze investment opportunities based on fundamentals and not on monetary laughing gas.

Ryan and Tho look back at 2022 and touch on some of the worst and underappreciated trends of the year.

In the name of "protecting workers," progressive legislators put people out of work. For their own good, of course.

John Maynard Keynes derided gold-based money as a "barbarous relic," yet it was gold that enabled a long regime of honest money -- and the advance of civilization.

Critics of capitalism claim that it is responsible for creating inequality in society. Yet the precapitalist societies enforced inequality in a rigid social structure.

For nearly two decades, business, academic, and political elites have spread the fiction that central banks can engineer prosperity by printing more money. Markets now are discrediting that fairy tale.

Energy production in the USA and elsewhere is in trouble because of government control. We need more energy and less regulation.

Should there be vaccine mandates to deal with covid? Progressive authorities say one thing, but the data say another.

The more we understand critical race theory, the more we understand that it is not compatible with a free society.

One hardly can imagine a better tool of social control than a digital currency. Not surprisingly, US monetary authorities are moving in that direction.

Like the police in similar communities, the Moscow, Idaho police have long focused on petty drug offenses while more serious violent crime and property crime receives far less attention.

It has been a hundred years since Mises published Socialism. It is more relevant than ever.

Progressives seem to believe that we improve healthcare outcomes by spending more. This is a recipe for failure.

There appears to be a six-million-man gap between the number of men in the prime age group—age 25–54—and the number of those men actually in the workforce.

Does 2022 America still have legitimate intellectuals? Professor Paul Gottfried joins Jeff and Bob to consider the state of real and pseudo-intellectualism.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Derek Dobalian to discuss the role Christianity has historically played in creating a bulwark against totalitarian regimes.

America's military technocrats (a.k.a. "generals") specialize in losing wars and also losing your money. Naturally, Congress wants to give them even more taxpayer cash.

Thomas Paine, whose fiery essay "Common Sense" made a case for the American Revolution, is a much-neglected American founder.

High time preferences also mean high times in a party atmosphere. When Jamaica embraced socialism many decades ago, it wasn't supposed to come to this.