Recent Podcast Episodes

The FBI operates as an agency whose players know they are untouchable in the current regime. Vacating FISA rulings is one way to fight back.

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.

Language is at the front lines of the battle over institutions.

Mainstream economists claim that Austrian economics is "discredited" because Austrians use deductive reasoning instead of employing complicated calculus and statistics. The irony is that Austrian analysis is better at explaining real-world economic phenomena.

While President Biden claims that forgiving student loans helps reduce college costs, it is the loan program itself that is responsible for much of the explosive growth of higher education spending.

Turkey's economy is reeling under inflation rates likely reaching 170 percent. Not surprisingly, the worst of it is felt by regular people just trying to make a living.

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7, 2022.

What happens when banks lend money? It depends on the lending process itself. If lending comes about because of an expansion of credit, then it creates problems.

Bob and Jeff discuss the nauseating elevation of former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to Nobel Prize winner.

A winning political strategy, especially among Democrats, is to accuse their political opponents of racism, or at least "closet" racism. Yet simple economic analysis shows such accusations are illogical.

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.

What truly unites Americans—beyond sharing a common oppressive regime?

The standard line is that the Federal Reserve System has two mandates, keep unemployment low and create price stability. Mark Thornton notes that the real agenda is found elsewhere.

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7, 2022.

The Bible the ancient Israelites were warned about the dangers of having a government that would tax them heavily and oppress them. They didn't listen.

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 6th, 2022.

Some claim that slavery was the main reason for the success of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, but the answer lies elsewhere.

The US dollar is not the world's "reserve" currency because of responsibility on behalf of the monetary authorities. Instead, the dollar's "strength" wages from the USA's self-appointed role as the world's protector.

Virtue-signaling politicians in New Jersey have banned single-use plastic bags, claiming to "help the environment." They need to read Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson instead.

Progressives are fond of telling us that we are under a "social contract" with the government, in effect justifying whatever abuses authorities inflict. Putting up with massive inflation is the latest iteration of this so-called contract.