Recent Podcast Episodes

High CPI inflation, popular explanations and their problems, and M1 vs. M2.

A brief biography of Rothbard and his important works, and a survey of some of his contributions to economics.

It's going to take more than a 0 percent policy interest rate and a newly invented name for QE to really address years of monetary inflation. 

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.

Politicians, academics, and the media often call for a new Manhattan Project to deal with economic issues. But there is a huge difference between technological problems and economic ones.

There are two very effective ways to destroy an economy: hyperinflation and central planning.

Rather than contributing to a "soft landing," raising interest rates will continue to destroy wealth.

Lucas Engelhardt summarizes the basics of MMT.

Do these characteristics give rise to monopoly power?

Presented at Mises University 2022.

Socialism does not build, it destroys.

Few people understand how destructive regulations are.

Free trade promotes economic progress.

While governments have been assaulting private property rights for many years, they now are ramping up the pressure. Nothing less than our civilization is at stake.

Good theory leads to better statistics and better predictions.

In order to argue, you must own yourself.

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises destroyed the intellectual foundations of the case for socialist central planning.

There is no clear basis in economics, ethics, efficiency, or fairness for Minimum Wage Laws.