Recent Podcast Episodes

Government programs like Medicare are called insurance, yet they are anything but. There is a difference between public and private plans.

Modern warfare is a product of the state, which engages in violence at home and abroad. Peace is possible, but only when the state loses power.

After praising Mises for his work on socialism, Tyler Cowen goes on to claim Human Action is "cranky and dogmatic." "Brilliant and insightful" would have been more truthful.

While personal autonomy is a major topic of conversation, for Rothbard the most important thing is liberty, and liberty and automony are not always the same.

Daniel McCarthy joins Jeff and Bob to consider the deep unseriousness of American politics and electorate.

The US Supreme Court has heard arguments for and against affirmative action in higher education admissions. Government needs to get out of the racial discrimination business altogether.

The Soviet regime relentlessly expanded the money supply. To prevent inflation, the regime then created shortages through price controls and economic stagnation. 

As fear that robots and artificial intelligence will take over whole lines of work, it is time to examine the real relationship between capital and the rest of us.

Mainstream economists claim that data alone can explain economic actions. Austrians know that without theory, data explains nothing.

As "decarbonize agriculture" becomes the watchword, powerful multinational agriculture firms have embraced the 2030 UN agenda. Their actions will result in widespread hunger.

Tho Bishop and Ryan McMaken break down the results of this year's midterms.

Pakistan, like so many other countries, is seeing inflation close to spiraling out of control. As for finding causes, monetary authorities should look in the mirror.

Progressives are quick to blame escalating healthcare costs on free markets, yet it's government rules and policies that are responsible.

As inflation advances and the economy slowly implodes, we also learn valuable lessons.

Among Mises's contributions was his doctrine of consumer sovereignty in a free market.

The Ponzi game known as selling US government debt is nearing its end. The seller is running out of suckers.

At a time when inflation once again ravages the dollar, we recall Murray Rothbard's wisdom in his article "The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar."

While Elon Musk says he will bring free speech back to Twitter, the forces of statism will not be still. The jury is out on how successful Musk's experiment will be.

Government economists "seasonally adjust" data in order to better respond with policy recommendations to deal with business cycles. The problem is that government causes the cycles.

Jeff joins Chris Casey of WindRock Wealth Management for a deep analysis of next week's punishing midterm elections.