Recent Podcast Episodes

Paul Krugman’s “logical problem” with ABCT derives entirely from his superficial understanding of the theory.

The people who really run California aren't going anywhere. Even if California voters throw out Newsom very little will change in state government.

Calculating "multiplier effects" is perhaps the most common method of cheating with benefit-cost analysis.

Bob reviews Mark Spitznagel's latest book, Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms, on which he was a consultant.

Contra Mr. Biden, this is entirely about freedom and personal choice.

Some slippery slope arguments are a case of bad reasoning, but those presented by Mises and Hayek are not among them.

A patient, an electrophysiologist. and an Associate Professor of Radiology join Accad and Koka to discuss implantable defibrillators.

China faces a wide variety of demographic, geopolitical, and economic limits on the regime's power.

On the heels of Biden's vaccine mandate announcement, Dr. Murray Sabrin joins the show to discuss his new book on escaping the state's medical fascism.

Governments are seeking to mandate vaccine usage in a variety of ways, even while vaccine producers are shielded from full legal accountability should their treatments cause harm. That should raise some red flags.

While bankruptcy has a negative connotation in the business world, “Bankruptcy fulfills the crucially important social function of preserving the available stock of capital."

Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to Bush’s antiterrorism crusade.

Jeff Deist and Allen Mendenhall discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Kingsley Amis in his seminal send-up of campus life, Lucky Jim.

The federal government, along with pharmaceutical, alcohol, and tobacco companies have spent money trying to put the legalization genie back in the prohibition bottle, so any argument or propaganda will suit their purposes.

Many landlords just received a crash course about how irrelevant their property rights are in Washington.

Canadian hospitals operate under fixed budgets dictated by the government. When this tax revenue is depleted before the end of the year, as often happens, new patients are put on a waiting list. This problem isn't getting any better.

In a free, unhampered market, businesspersons in the pursuance of their goals will not require macroeconomic indicators. Entrepreneurs require an entirely different kind of data than what government data provides.

Because people strive to improve their condition, they exchange goods and, in this sense, they create the necessary conditions for the emergence of prices. Prices are simply an unintended consequence of the human quest to improve one's life.

There won't be a taper tantrum if the Fed seriously moves toward tapering. Investors now understand how the game works. Tapering doesn't actually mean the end of monetary inflation, and everyone knows it.