Recent Podcast Episodes

After the 2008 housing bust, the government supposedly set up a fail-safe mortgage program aimed at preventing future bubbles. It failed.

While the covid-19 pandemic brought sickness and death, another pandemic raged through Washington: abuse of executive power.

While supporters of the Biden administration fault Putin for shortages, Austrian economists know the answer lies in Washington's monetary and economic mismanagement.

Jeff and Bob take a look at the misnamed "World Economic Forum" and its conference this past week in Davos.

The Europeans are welcome to keep NATO going if they like. But the time has come for the United States to exit.

The combination of covid lockdowns, money pumping, and attempts to force a new green economy are taking their toll. This is not going away any time soon.

While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.

Persistently loose monetary policies always have negative growth and distributional effects that impair political stability. In extreme cases, there are civil wars and armed conflicts between countries.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss progressivism as a form of modern colonialism.

The presence of American companies in foreign nations was once seen as a sign of American superiority and an instrument of American cultural power. Not anymore.

Recorded in Orlando, Florida, on May 14, 2022.

Recorded in Orlando, Florida, on May 14, 2022.

Everything from huge Keynesian "stimulus" policies to the war in Ukraine is dovetailing in a bout of stagflation: the simultaneous growth of inflation and unemployment.

Trying to interpret the actions of Vladimir Putin or politics in Russia using Western narratives is likely to end in failure.

The latest Keynesian money-printing and spending schemes are blowing up. It is time to hear what the Austrians have to say.

Most people—and especially most economists—not only are ignorant of what money actually is, but how and why it became part of our economy in the first place.

Why did Barbados postslavery develop a more robust economy than Jamaica even though the people had similar ethnic backgrounds?

Since the Obama administration nationalized the student loan program, we have seen student debt metastasize. Unfortunately, the Biden administration looks to make things even worse.

Would you give up voting in exchange for no more taxes?

Green energy advocates want us to believe we easily can transition from conventional fuels to renewables. In truth, such a transition not only would devastate world economies, but also is not technologically possible.