Recent Podcast Episodes

Will the Fed be successful with its "Immaculate Disinflation"?

Because government officials do not worry about the consequences of making mistakes, the government should not be permitted to regulate anything as important as vaccines.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss Jay Powell's exercise in Fed-speak this week.

What at first seem like gifts from the state (handouts for some at the expense of others) lead to unfortunate events that cannot be stopped once begun.

Government interference into money creation and production harms the economy in a number of ways, including skewing the organization of division of labor.

Fiat money is the fuel of the modern Leviathan state. If we wish to have freedom, we must have sound money.

It is no secret that freedom, both socially and economically, are disappearing in the USA and Great Britain. The consequences will be most severe if we do not reverse these patterns.

The Fed is insolvent, and that means that it will bail itself out by printing money. For ordinary people, that means inflation and a rising cost of living. 

No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward.

Are stock markets in full recovery mode?

Once upon a time, the USA had sound, reliable money. Then, a small group of "really intelligent" people decided to "improve" it. We know the rest of the story.

Now would be a great time to stop pretending that the financial sector is "free market" or that price inflation and cost-of-living surges are somehow all the fault of "capitalism."

Mark Thornton takes a look at the recent GDP report and the layoff announcement at 3M.

Remember Lady Justice, who wears a blindfold and holds the scales? She is a state creation, too, and when it comes to state wrongdoing, her thumb holds the scales down.

The Federal Reserve is no more "private" than the Environmental Protection Agency, and through its special government status, the Fed inflicts many economic crimes on regular people. 

The economics discipline has devolved into statistics, models, and hard science envy. Is the profession doing any good, or active harm? Per Bylund joins Jeff and Bob to discuss.

The move from feudalism to the relatively free capitalist societies occurred slowly, beginning with the emergence of the city-states in Italy in Medieval Europe.

For all of the political "reforms" being tossed about, the truth is that government is slowly strangling the life out of our society.

The similar challenges facing America and Brazil, including concerns about the state of their democracies, is worthy of exploration, as is the global response to the protest and what that response means for those opposed to the current “neoliberal” international order.

Ryan and Tho talk to Mark Thornton about what to expect from the next recession and how we got ourselves into the current inflationary mess.