Recent Podcast Episodes

American politicians claim that excessive military spending makes Americans "safe." The record shows otherwise.

As the economy begins to slow, the results of the Fed's money pumping are showing up in mergers and acquisitions.

While politicians claiming to be "fiscally responsible" call for balanced budgets, the real drag on the economy is government spending itself.

Thirty-nine people were killed in school shootings in 2018 (one of the worst years). In the same period, 900 children drowned, and 1,800 were murdered via child abuse. 

Police stood around outside the Uvalde, Texas, school while a gunman shot children inside. Meanwhile, gun control advocates tell us we should just trust the cops to keep us safe. 

By making covid a political virus, progressive politicians, cheered on by their media, applied political "solutions" that failed to protect the most vulnerable people.

Jeff and Bob discuss a recent interview with IMF economist Manmohan Singh in the context of central banks co-opting digital technology for bad ends.

Ireland has been "experimenting" with MMT and price controls. The results are predictable.

Krugman’s recent NYT column on Russia features commentary on trade surpluses that is at best very misleading.

Jeff Deist and Ryan McMaken talk police, guns, gun control, and the 2nd Amendment.

The African Continent Free Trade Area has the potential to serve Africans and bring about better living standards. However, it is threatened by government attempts to "manage" trade.

The proabortion centralist line of "accept our definition of human rights, or else" is what we'd expect from the imperialists of old who claimed the "savages" in the colonies couldn't be trusted with self-government. 

There are two competing visions for the Right. 

Recorded in Orlando, Florida, on May 14, 2022.

After the 2008 housing bust, the government supposedly set up a fail-safe mortgage program aimed at preventing future bubbles. It failed.

While the covid-19 pandemic brought sickness and death, another pandemic raged through Washington: abuse of executive power.

While supporters of the Biden administration fault Putin for shortages, Austrian economists know the answer lies in Washington's monetary and economic mismanagement.

Jeff and Bob take a look at the misnamed "World Economic Forum" and its conference this past week in Davos.

The Europeans are welcome to keep NATO going if they like. But the time has come for the United States to exit.

The combination of covid lockdowns, money pumping, and attempts to force a new green economy are taking their toll. This is not going away any time soon.