Recent Podcast Episodes

The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon.

What inspires us about the life of Mises, writes Lew Rockwell, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil.

In attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct: progressivism has brought one disaster after another, all the while empowering the worst of state actors.

For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both.

Ryan McMaken points out that the American "great experiment" failed many decades ago. In fact, the current republic we call "the United States" is clearly a completely different republic than the one founded back in the late eighteenth century. The founding fathers wouldn't recognize it at all.

As I see it now, there are really two economies—two distinct systems of producing and exchanging wealth. Or rather, two systems that purport to do these things.

Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state itself depends upon prior production for every resource it possesses.

The White House leaks that a deal is almost done. Markets surge. Insiders profit. The deal collapses. Repeat. Now the markets barely move. Nobody believes it anymore. A government that cries wolf this many times eventually finds itself alone.

The popular pastime of modern democracies of punishing the diligent and thrifty, while rewarding the lazy, improvident, and unthrifty, is cultivated via the State, fulfilling a demo-egalitarian program based on a demo-totalitarian ideology.

Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for many years, and Mamdani promises to make things even worse.

Remembering Murray Rothbard on our imperialistic wars: "The true principle of isolationism is that the government should be isolated and people who trade, interchange, and engage in voluntary travel, migration, and so forth should be allowed to peacefully do so."

Even the federal government's official data shows that price growth is well above the Federal Reserve's two-percent target. In fact, price inflation is now at multi-year highs, and there is good reason to think this will continue.

Record-low consumer confidence and record-strong corporate earnings aren’t a paradox: they’re the Cantillon effect in real time. Mark Thornton explains who inflation rewards, who it crushes, and what comes next.

Historically, many sovereign states have granted separatist cultural and ideological groups political autonomy as a means of avoiding full secession. The US legal system prevents this.

This week, Bob walks through three thought experiments to show how expectations of future supply changes ripple into present prices and production decisions in ways that purely mechanical monetary frameworks like MV=PQ can't capture.

The American consumer is flashing historic warning signs, yet Wall Street is celebrating record corporate earnings. How are both true at the same time? Dr. Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and Austrian economist, joins Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron to break down the mechanics of the "Two Economies."

Zohran Mamdani’s proposal reflects a growing belief that economic problems can be solved through public ownership and political management. But a grocery store is still a business governed by costs, and economic reality regardless of who owns it.

Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the results of the most expensive Congressional race in American history. What does the defeat of Thomas Massie tell us? What does this mean for libertarian strategy? Should we blackpill? Tune in for this and more.

Buc-ee’s—the roadside travel phenomenon—seems to cater to the extremes in our society. Either customers love shopping at the place or it is yet another symbol of capitalist oppression.