Recent Podcast Episodes

Bob discusses common talking points that pro-free-trade economists often use when making the case against tariffs.

The gold standard hampers the growth of government power, which helps people more effectively fight bad policy.

Ryan and Zachary Yost look at some of the ways Trump's foreign policy might actually be a step in the right direction. 

In an outrageous act, lame-duck President Joe Biden gives Ukraine permission to fire US-made missiles into Russia.

One does not need to be an advocate of open borders to have concerns when one hears about a federal law enforcement agency engaging in a “crackdown.”

One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more than others. While this seems to be a common-sense principle, it actually has important implications for economic theory.

Kamala Harris claims that she simply wants food prices to be lower. However, her de facto price fixing scheme would create food shortages and raise the real price of food. Of course, when that happens, Harris simply will blame capitalism.

In this review of Scott Horton's book, Enough Already, we see that the wars the US has waged for the past quarter century in the Middle East have been a disaster. Millions of deaths and a massive refugee crisis later, the unmistakable verdict is in.

Long before there was Alan Greenspan to turn the Federal Reserve into Casino Central, there was John Law, France's minister of finance.

There are numerous critics of the Austrian School of economics, but when their disparagements are closely examined, the so-called experts themselves are wrong. Austrians can do a better job of setting the record straight.

David Gordon takes another look at Thomas Nagel's Equality and Partiality. While he finds some of Nagel's arguments appealing, they still are inferior to Murray Rothbard's systematic interpretation of natural rights.

Had Republicans not vastly expanded federal criminal law during the infamous Wall Street prosecutions 40 years ago, lawfare would not have become such a potent political weapon.

Amy LePore joins Bob to talk about FEMA's poor track record in recent disasters but also going back to Hurricane Katrina.

Yes, college professors are 10-to-1 Democrats over Republicans.

The current civil war on the American right is only the latest chapter in a much older story.

Ryan and Tho examine the role that ideology and interest groups will have on Trump's administration and on his political appointees. 

Episodes that made a difference involved an ideological and philosophical battle about policy and the role of government. That’s what the Mises Institute is all about–we’re in the business of idea bombs.

Our troubles don't stem from quotas, set-asides, and the like. They stem from the presumption that the government should be monitoring discrimination in the first place.

The evidence is quite clear. It really doesn't matter who's in the White House long term. Spending will continue to go up, and they'll be using the tax code to manipulate interest rates.

The iron law of prohibition states that the more you attempt to enforce prohibition, the more dangerous and the more potent the drugs actually become.