Recent Podcast Episodes

The simplest action of economics—beneficially mutual voluntary exchange—is also its most profound. People serve each other while improving their own lot in life.

Ryan and Tho examine how the US regime is in the midst of its latest panic over public faith in the state's legitimacy.

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023.

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023.

Some are claiming that AI can make socialism workable, but even AI cannot take the place of entrepreneurial economic calculation.

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023.

The activists went from "We want to be left alone to live our lives" to "we want to control your lives too." Now the movement has state power on its side and bullies all opponents. 

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023.

Federal prosecutors and other law enforcement agents are turning blockchain firms into government subsidiaries. The real goal is to criminalize what really are lawful, private exchanges.

Mainstream economists are quick to claim that environmental problems are caused by "market failure" that can be "fixed" by government intervention. However, the intervention itself is the problem.

The recent actions of the Federal Reserve are reminiscent of central bank activities in wartime.

Following the collapse of the USSR, many socialists pinned their hopes upon the development of a "market socialism" that would be economically efficient and create equality. Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen wisely dissented.

Social democrats are so desperate to cast off limits on government that they'll embrace anything that justifies their ambitions. So they invent theories of money that are very, very wrong.  

Even under chattel slavery, inequality was still pervasive. Carpenters, sugar boilers, blacksmiths, cabinetmakers, and rum distillers constituted an elite core of slaves.

Will we get a soft landing or a hard landing in the economy? Or, should we hope for a crash landing? Mark Thornton explains.

Speculators are reviled in the media and by politicians and academics. Yet the speculators are the ones taking risks to ensure the rest of us can have more economic certainty.

In 1944, F.A. Hayek's best-selling book, The Road to Serfdom, warned the West that the "free" nations would lose their freedom as government expanded. He was right.

Progressive economists claim that the Federal Reserve's rate hikes couldn't possibly be responsible for the quelling of consumer price inflation. Jonathan Newman joins Bob to discuss.

Forcing the minimum wage above the real market wage causes more unemployment. Small businesses suffer from these mandates as do the least productive workers. 

Dr. Murray Sabrin shares his story of how he became an Austrian economist and discusses his analysis predicting a recession later in the year. Tho and Dr. Sabrin also talk about this week's anniversary of Nixon closing the gold window.