Recent Podcast Episodes

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look ahead to 2023.

Keynesians believe that economic growth can occur only with an expanding supply of money. Growth doesn't need more money; it needs more savings.

Twenty-six years ago, the debate was over whether or not the target inflation rate should be raised from zero to 2 percent. Now we're being told it should be 4 or 6 percent.

The Pilgrims tried socialism at Plymouth. After two years, they returned to private enterprise. Likewise, Israel was founded as a socialist state but has back turned toward free markets.

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

Money laundering is illegal in the USA, but like so many other federal crimes, it is difficult to identify and define. That is the perfect recipe for government abuse of innocent people.

You don't want to miss Jeff's unvarnished thoughts on the Left, the Right, the economy, and what is sure to be a turbulent New Year.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.