Recent Podcast Episodes

Mark Thornton appears on Metals and Miners with Gary Bohm and shares Austrian perspectives on 2026's outlook, deflation benefits, and why government intervention fails.

Camillo Tarello was one of the fathers of modern agriculture. Fighting the headwinds of state disapproval for his innovative farming methods, he made many agricultural discoveries, benefiting not only his fellow Italians, but future farmers around the world.

Historically, it has been very poor manners in Washington to admit that keeping home prices high is a deliberate policy. High prices are not the "unintended consequence" of good intentions. 

Shortly after hearing about the birth of Jesus, Herod the king tried to have the child murdered. Indeed, Herod's oppressive rule and the predations of the Roman state play a huge role in the Christmas story.

All children eventually learn that the presents under the Christmas tree come from family and friends, who must pay for them with their own money, and not from Santa Claus.

Scrooge was never mistreated by his nephew, by Cratchit, or by those seeking charitable donations. Scrooge was always free to refuse them all.

Father Frost (the Soviet Santa Claus) asks: "To whom do we owe all the good things in our socialist society?,” to which, it is said, the children chorus the reply, "Stalin."

With employment fundamentals so weak, the real way to increase home sales is to cut prices further. That, of course, is not what sellers want to hear. 

Gold is up, bitcoin is cooling, the yield curve turning. 2026 could un-invert the story.

Instead of market competition, inflation forces young and old into rivalrous competition for housing.

Ryan and Josh Mawhorter talk about how Thomas Hobbes, even nearly 400 years later, remains a popular spokesman for almost limitless state power. In fact, by Hobbes's logic, the world should by ruled by a single global dictatorship. 

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor reflect on what they view as the biggest stories and themes of the year.

Connor O’Keeffe joins Rob Kientz on The Freedom Report for a wide-ranging conversation on Austrian economics, government power, and why today’s affordability crisis is no accident.

If employment reports continue to show growing economic stagnation, calls for more monetary inflation and government spending will only grow.

The US economy is hooked on easy money and artificially low interest rates. Huge credit expansions are not “stimulating” the economy; they are destroying it.

Only a couple years ago, climate change was a major political issue. Now it’s strangely absent from public discourse. Why did this happen?

Mark Thornton appears on the Scott Horton Show to discuss the state of the economy.

In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood that in a free society, inequality is inevitable, and it is something we must accept.

President Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Cheryl Daley on The Homeschool How To Podcast.