Recent Podcast Episodes

Modern socialists claim that Hitler's Nazi regime was the antithesis of socialism. Hitler would have disagreed, as he saw himself and his movement as being primarily socialist.

Lest anyone underestimate the brutality of state control, the way governments have handled the covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the authorities have not yet hit bottom.

Most economists see GDP as a snapshot of the performance of the economy. However, it is better understood as a misleading statistic which fails to accurately describe what really is happening economically.

The great credit expansion Alan Greenspan began thirty years ago has finally run its course. The Fed no longer can expand credit to fight the oncoming recession.

Mortgage companies and realtors are today's canaries. They're in deep trouble, and so are the rest of us. 

Language is an institution in society. We need to protect it from vandals in the state-linguistic complex.

Presented at Mises University 2022.

Tho Bishop on the presidential election of 1876.

Egalitarian liberals think that basic liberties can be violated in the quest for equality and even that "the natural duty to promote justice straightforwardly implies a duty to establish states."

Dress for success on a budget.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is to be ineptly defended.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 30 July 2022.

Jeff Deist and Connor Mortell host an AMA during Mises University 2022 on the topic of "What You Can Do."

As the US political landscape shifts rapidly and college economics departments become increasingly hostile, the way we teach free-market economics will change.

The original monetarists (Milton Friedman), Scott Sumner, and problems with market monetarism.

Bombing private property is bad. So, when someone bombed the pro-eugenics, antihuman Georgia "guidestones," we naturally condemned the bombing. But let's not pretend the monument was a good thing. 

Inequality is a good thing in the free market. 

Presented at the Mises Institute Graduate School Commencement.

Higher education signaling, grade inflation, federal aid and student debt, free speech, and university bureaucracy.

Presented at Mises University 2022.