Recent Podcast Episodes

Modern socialism is as disastrous as the older state-planning model.

David Brady, Jr. discusses his recent article at mises.org, in which he argues that the newly launched "FedNOW" system isn't a CBDC.

Experienced entrepreneurs are Austrians.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2023.

Can government steer energy use decisions to improve outcomes?

Inequality is a good thing in the free market. 

Featuring Per Bylund, Lucas Engelhardt, Karl-Friedrich Israel, Tate Fegley, Shawn Ritenour, and Timothy Terrell.

Ineffective teaching, the enrollment cliff, stifled academic discourse, and government driving up tuition.

Recorded at the Mises Institute on 28 July 2023.

Recorded at the Mises Institute on 28 July 2023.

Public health during the pandemic was anti-science and anti-health.

Dr. Terrell discusses the impacts of price controls, occupational licensure, the FDA, and more.

Game theory done the wrong way eliminates individual choice.

Some problems with inflation measures, inequality and social mobility, and further implications.

Recorded at the Mises Institute on 27 July 2023.

More than two thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese Tao presented ideas that are reflected in F.A. Hayek's concept of spontaneous order.

Bureaucrats operate with de facto electoral unaccountability.

“Our civilization is inseparably linked with our methods of economic calculation."

Tho discusses the importance of the work of Mises University, some highlights of the week, and ends with a look at Ryan McMaken's article on the Hollywood strikes.

Moving policing outside of the realm of economic calculation contributes to many of the problems we see.