Recent Podcast Episodes

SEZs are loopholes, and capitalism breathes through loopholes. But like all loopholes, they tend to benefit those who can afford to hire the lawyers who can identify said loopholes.

Jeff and Bob discuss Biden's SOTU, the immorality of sanctions, and Fed chair Powell's pregnant comments.

This week, Jeff and Bob discuss oil prices. Why are gas prices spiking in the US, and what are D.C. politicians planning for oil companies?

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the fallout from the first week of the Ukraine-Russian conflict.

Dr. Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop discuss the connection between the imperialism of the Jacksonians and the corruption of America as an "empire of liberty."

Tho Bishop and Norm Singleton discuss the experience of being an Austro-libertarian within the belly of DC.

Dr. Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop look at the record of the Jackson administration.

Bob explains the friendly exchange he had with Dave Smith regarding the new Johns Hopkins study that concluded lockdowns did little to reduce mortality.

Ash Navabi offers his take on the clash between the Freedom Convoy protests and the Trudeau regime.

General Andrew Jackson, fresh off the election of 1828, assumes the office of the presidency, armed with a battle plan to bring down the institutions he blames for the corruption of the republic.

Wokism and US foreign policy should not be viewed as isolated phenomena but rather inextricably linked concepts given the US’s universalist foreign policy modus operandi.

For the covid despots, anyone who objected to government commands was the equivalent of a heretic who must be condemned or banished from every place except the cemetery.

Bob has Steve Patterson back on the show, to concede that Steve’s skepticism of higher mathematics was right all along.

Dr. Peter Klein joins the show and gives us his behind-the-scenes view of the increasingly politicized economics profession. 

Sometimes people—even other economists—are incredulous that the Austrians deny the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons.

Fannie Mae is helping ensure easy money flows to apartments. That means multifamily prices are heading skyward like asset prices overall.

California politicians say "gun owners should cover the costs of gun violence." Apparently, holding actual criminals responsible for their own misdeeds is too much work in California.

The election of 1824 pits the Old Republicans against the entrenched interests of one-party rule in America.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop consider the counterfactual of what would have happened if Donald Trump were still president.