Recent Podcast Episodes

Although the experts assured us Sweden would experience a disaster and a bloodbath without covid lockdowns, the Nordic nation has fared better than Europe on excess deaths.

Cultural disparities between national, linguistic, or cultural groups can prevent the spread of trade and hamper the adoption of useful economic strategies.

Bob provides a running refutation of Stephanie Kelton's recent TED talk on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

Our guest is Euzebiusz (Zeb) Jamrozik, MD, PhD. His academic work on infectious disease ethics is focused on vaccines, vector-borne disease, and drug resistance.

While the US was able to give the Soviets a bloody nose by pouring billions into the mujahideen, it’s undeniable the US created a Frankenstein's monster that ended up turning on its creator.

The current surge in inflation is not due to a shortage of supply as central banks want us to believe. It is primarily due to soaring consumer demand fueled by monetary creation.

In a special live seminar, Jeff Deist and Bob Murphy discuss Mises's views on interventionism and their continued relevance today, particularly after the last year and a half of economic intervention resulting from covid tyranny.

It is important to get some much-needed context when examining a disease which is being used to justify unprecedented increases in state power and violations of human rights.

The state is making people dependent on it, both as means for control and as an outcome of many policies intended to provide relief.

Was Rothbard's harsh criticism of Adam Smith justified, or was Smith actually an early and valiant proponent of laissez-faire? Hunter Hastings and Jonathan Newman join Jeff Deist to discuss. 

Raising the debt limit will only delay the inevitable while courting fiscal and monetary chaos: higher interest rates, cuts to social programs, a declining dollar, and price inflation.

Let's stop pretending default is unprecedented. The US defaulted on debts in 1934 and again in 1979. Today it engages in de facto default through financial repression and monetary inflation.

Bob covers some of the key points in his new pamphlet on restoring the Republic of Texas.

In the face of an “invisible enemy,” many Western nations have implemented emergency measures that were once considered dystopian and wholly incompatible with liberal democracy.

As inflation becomes more obvious, governments will be blaming businesses for causing the inflation that policymakers have fueled. This is a step on the way to price controls.

Justin Trudeau won with a weak "victory" in Canadian elections last week, but he nonetheless claimed a "mandate" for vaccine passports and huge increases in federal spending.

As US military interventions continue across several continents, we should remember that much of US foreign policy is little more than cleaning up messes the US created.

The new "2 percent average" standard from last year helped the inflationists, but there are now calls for scrapping the "too low" 2 percent inflation limit altogether.

Was Adam Smith the founder of modern economics? Dr. Patrick Newman joins the show for a look at Rothbard's treatment of economics before Smith and his take no prisoners revisionist approach.

The FBI’s power and federal legitimacy are far more tenuous than Washington recognizes. Beyond the nation’s big cities, federal authority hinges largely on the consent of local citizens.