Recent Podcast Episodes

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is to be ineptly defended.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 30 July 2022.

Jeff Deist and Connor Mortell host an AMA during Mises University 2022 on the topic of "What You Can Do."

As the US political landscape shifts rapidly and college economics departments become increasingly hostile, the way we teach free-market economics will change.

Presented at Mises University 2022.

Tho Bishop on the presidential election of 1876.

Egalitarian liberals think that basic liberties can be violated in the quest for equality and even that "the natural duty to promote justice straightforwardly implies a duty to establish states."

Dress for success on a budget.

Can government steer energy use decisions to improve outcomes?

We live in a world of constant cronyism. Nothing seems to change, no matter the party or the people in power. Was it always like this? Can we learn from it?

Presented at Mises University 2022.

The original monetarists (Milton Friedman), Scott Sumner, and problems with market monetarism.

Bombing private property is bad. So, when someone bombed the pro-eugenics, antihuman Georgia "guidestones," we naturally condemned the bombing. But let's not pretend the monument was a good thing. 

Inequality is a good thing in the free market. 

Presented at the Mises Institute Graduate School Commencement.

Higher education signaling, grade inflation, federal aid and student debt, free speech, and university bureaucracy.

Presented at Mises University 2022.

Critics claim the market economy engages in "planned obsolescence" that encourages throwing good products into landfills. In fact, activities that might seem wasteful are the best use of resources.

Is it all bad news? There is still entrepreneurship. There is still innovation.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2022.