Recent Podcast Episodes

Roman Keynesianism that ruined the empire and destroyed the Roman economy.

The dollar's petrodollar status has led the Federal Reserve to irresponsibly inflate the currency. The rest of the world has noticed and is looking for alternatives.

The 2004 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to two economists for their claim that "technology shocks" cause boom-bust cycles. They have it wrong.

While both the Left and Right celebrate the government's new drive to subsidize American microchip manufacturing, we should remember that political "investments" always result in crony capitalist disasters.

The jobs data is worse than the latest headlines suggest, and workers are staring at falling real wages, declining savings, and mounting debt. We can thank the Fed. 

It will be nearly impossible to make any real changes in Washington for the next two years. The real battles are now in the states. 

Government programs like Medicare are called insurance, yet they are anything but. There is a difference between public and private plans.

After praising Mises for his work on socialism, Tyler Cowen goes on to claim Human Action is "cranky and dogmatic." "Brilliant and insightful" would have been more truthful.

Modern warfare is a product of the state, which engages in violence at home and abroad. Peace is possible, but only when the state loses power.

The US Supreme Court has heard arguments for and against affirmative action in higher education admissions. Government needs to get out of the racial discrimination business altogether.

While personal autonomy is a major topic of conversation, for Rothbard the most important thing is liberty, and liberty and automony are not always the same.

Daniel McCarthy joins Jeff and Bob to consider the deep unseriousness of American politics and electorate.

As fear that robots and artificial intelligence will take over whole lines of work, it is time to examine the real relationship between capital and the rest of us.

The Soviet regime relentlessly expanded the money supply. To prevent inflation, the regime then created shortages through price controls and economic stagnation. 

As "decarbonize agriculture" becomes the watchword, powerful multinational agriculture firms have embraced the 2030 UN agenda. Their actions will result in widespread hunger.

Tho Bishop and Ryan McMaken break down the results of this year's midterms.

Mainstream economists claim that data alone can explain economic actions. Austrians know that without theory, data explains nothing.

Progressives are quick to blame escalating healthcare costs on free markets, yet it's government rules and policies that are responsible.

Pakistan, like so many other countries, is seeing inflation close to spiraling out of control. As for finding causes, monetary authorities should look in the mirror.

As inflation advances and the economy slowly implodes, we also learn valuable lessons.