Recent Podcast Episodes

In the 1950s, McCarthyism targeted people who were accused of supporting Russia. Today's McCarthyism targets people accused of supporting … Russia. Some things never change.

June was the fifteenth month in a row during which price inflation outpaced earnings growth. June's gap is also among the biggest we've seen in decades.

Tho Bishop is joined by Mises Research Fellow Marcel Gautreau for a wide-ranging conversation about challenges to the American-dominated neoliberal order.

The Keynesians running our economic life may be reassured that the Fed cannot fail in a technical sense, but the public should be appalled.

Connor Boyack joins the show to make the Rothbardian case for de-bamboozling history.

The ruling class is claiming that free markets are nothing more than a "trickle-down" scheme. But a free market system really does serve society best.

Once wealthy Argentina has suffered under one interventionist regime after another for nearly a century. What are the prospects for changing things for the better?

The West Indies played a vital role in growing the British economy in the eighteenth century.

The New York Times claims that the "administrative state"—that is, governance by unelected bureaucrats—protects our country and enhances democracy.

In an attempt to stymie the spread of covid-19, the Chinese government has imposed reckless and harmful lockdown policies in several cities. This will not end well.

Indian tribe sovereignty has long been a much neglected, yet important, tool in decentralizing and limiting government power in the US. 

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pundits on the Left have demanded even more centralization of government. But federalism is the best way forward.

More than sixty years after being "liberated" by Fidel Castro and communism, Cuba has become a large slave state where people enjoy little freedom.

People often speak of the Constitution with reverence, as though it were infallible. However, the Constitution was a centralizing document that cast aside the decentralization of the Articles of Confederation.

"Repealing the twentieth century" sounds like madness to many. Yet the progressivism that came from that century will be the death knell of civilization if not stopped.

Keynesian economics is a scourge to any nation that tries it, and African countries are no exception.

Paul Krugman denies that the Fed artificially suppressed interest rates. As usual, Krugman neither understands interest rates nor the effects of inflationary policies.

While the economic sanctions against Russia are helping to impoverish people in that country, they are doing a lot of damage elsewhere too.

 How would issues like debt, entitlements, and defense be addressed if the US split into two or more new political entities? Ryan McMaken joins Jeff to discuss.

Groups targeted by class warriors in America will achieve more if they follow the Igbos’ path and ignore the politics of grievance.