Student Loan Debt: The Financial Time Bomb Politicians Want to Ignore
President Biden's nonsolution of partial "debt forgiveness" is in limbo, but the slow financial destruction that massive student loan debt is unleashing continues.
Recent Podcast Episodes
Federal Reserve Tampering with Interest Rates Distorts the Shape of the Yield Curve
In a free market, short-term and long-term rates would move toward convergence. Fed interference with interest rates ensures that won't happen.
Review of Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
Law Professor David Bernstein looks at the system of racial classifications in the USA and explains why they have been harmful.
The Fed’s Current Monetary Stance Will Lead to Stagflation, Not Deflation
After following hyper-Keynesian policies for more than two decades, the Fed is about to create the conditions that Keynesians claimed were impossible: an inflationary recession.
It’s Time to Abandon America’s Fetish for “Unconditional Surrender”
War dissenters are branded "Putinists" by the foreign policy elites who casually flirt with nuclear war. But preferring negotiations to World War III hardly makes one a Putin sympathizer.
Without Easy Money from the Fed, Home Prices Will Keep Falling
Home price growth of the sort we've seen in recent years simply cannot be sustained without a continued commitment to easy money from the central bank, and it shows.
Words as Weapons
Jeff and Bob take a hard look at the linguistic battlefield and the corruption of language as an institution.
To Many, America Still Is a Place of Opportunity (Unless Progressives Destroy That, Too)
People still come to America, but it is because of the foundation created by private enterprise, not because of progressive politics.
Housing Is Getting Less Affordable. Governments Are Making It Worse.
The average new home in America was still well over 50 percent larger in 2021 than in the 1960s. Yet in an age of declining affordability, governments won't let homes get smaller.
Did Alex Jones Get What He Deserved?
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the Alex Jones verdict and the weaponization of defamation law.
Murray Rothbard Was Right: Deposit “Insurance” Is Not Insurance at All
Insurance protects individuals from events that cannot be foreseen. As Murray Rothbard noted, however, deposit insurance exists to "protect" a system that is inherently bankrupt.
Fed Socialist Money Manipulation Cancels Individuals’ Better Judgment
Government inflation makes people’s responses much more delayed, leaving people’s value adding greatly degraded.
“Spend Now, and Deal with the Consequences Later” Is the Worst Policy
Our current deficit policy amounts to "Give me your wallet, and you will deal with the credit card balance later."
An Evening with Dr. Ron Paul
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
The Mises Institute as an Intellectual Home
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.
Europe’s Energy Crisis Was Created by Political Intervention
The European electricity market is probably the most state-regulated in the world. More intervention is not going to solve the problems created by politics.
The Nobel for Government Intervention: Bernanke and Others Rewarded for Flawed Theories
This year's trio of Nobel winners in economics are short on actual economics and long on government intervention.
Gold as Natural Money
Gold historically has not been money by government fiat. Instead, gold has been the natural choice of people for money, something governments cannot undo (despite its best efforts).
