Recent Podcast Episodes

Jeff and Bob discuss whether the FTX scandal will be used to justify new "crypto" regulations or even the creation of a central bank digital currency.

In presenting her economic plan, Liz Truss failed spectacularly on one thing: cutting spending. Otherwise, a "tax cut" is not a tax cut at all.

All too often, people equate their nationality with a particular state. Yet, as Mises noted, nationality does not depend at all upon a formal entity tied to a government.

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

Marxist regimes used to slap the word "antirevolutionary" on everything the regimes disliked. Today's regimes use the words "undemocratic" and "antidemocratic" in the same way. 

Firebrands like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz demand a GOP-controlled Congress hold DC villains accountable. If the GOP refuses to treat Anthony Fauci like the Democrats have treated Steve Bannon, the party remains controlled opposition.

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.

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

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

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.