Recent Podcast Episodes

Egalitarian liberals think that basic liberties can be violated in the quest for equality and even that "the natural duty to promote justice straightforwardly implies a duty to establish states."

Critics claim the market economy engages in "planned obsolescence" that encourages throwing good products into landfills. In fact, activities that might seem wasteful are the best use of resources.

Can government steer energy use decisions to improve outcomes?

We live in a world of constant cronyism. Nothing seems to change, no matter the party or the people in power. Was it always like this? Can we learn from it?

Presented at Mises University 2022.

The original monetarists (Milton Friedman), Scott Sumner, and problems with market monetarism.

Bombing private property is bad. So, when someone bombed the pro-eugenics, antihuman Georgia "guidestones," we naturally condemned the bombing. But let's not pretend the monument was a good thing. 

Inequality is a good thing in the free market. 

Presented at the Mises Institute Graduate School Commencement.

Higher education signaling, grade inflation, federal aid and student debt, free speech, and university bureaucracy.

Presented at Mises University 2022.

Is it all bad news? There is still entrepreneurship. There is still innovation.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2022.

Politicians, academics, and the media often call for a new Manhattan Project to deal with economic issues. But there is a huge difference between technological problems and economic ones.

There are two very effective ways to destroy an economy: hyperinflation and central planning.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2022.

High CPI inflation, popular explanations and their problems, and M1 vs. M2.

A brief biography of Rothbard and his important works, and a survey of some of his contributions to economics.

It's going to take more than a 0 percent policy interest rate and a newly invented name for QE to really address years of monetary inflation.