Recent Podcast Episodes

Forget the notion that the Fed "fights inflation." In fact, the Fed exists to promote inflation.

Totalitarian societies do not become that way overnight. There are recognizable signs and stages which show how a society slides into that abyss.

Do technology and machine learning portend an end to scarcity and a solution to monetary policy? Jeff and Bob discuss. 

The Fair Tax is a supposed alternative to the income tax. But the name does not matter, since a tax is still a tax.

The theory of real business cycles won a Nobel Prize, but it ultimately confuses cause with effect.

Inflation is at a forty-year high, fuel prices are wreaking havoc, and there's no end in sight. Time for Biden to tell us how good we have it.

Skyrocketing asset prices are great for hedge fund managers and Wall Street types, but they increasingly drive ordinary people into unsustainably large amounts of debt.

Tho Bishop introduces a new Mises Institute podcast with Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost.

The Davos crowd sold globalization as a way to bring nations together. Unfortunately, by insisting on political conformity, the globalists have set the world on fire.

Since the state is incorrigible and incapable of being reformed, perhaps the best way to deal with government predations is to boycott the elections.

In seeking membership in NATO, Finland and Sweden seem to believe they will have more military security. But they also are giving up their precious independence.

Although Biden presented the formula shortage as caused by "forces" outside the USA, the shortage is homegrown. Bastiat could have explained why.

Airfares may surge 40 percent or more in 2022. This could be the biggest price increase in many decades. 

The proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty is nothing less than an exercise in medical totalitarianism. Welcome to the rule of the medical bureaucrat.

Vladimir Putin (not unlike President George W. Bush) has led his country into a destructive war, yet the Russian political leadership enjoys wide public support.

The proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty is nothing less than an exercise in medical totalitarianism. Welcome to the rule of the medical bureaucrat.

Bob Murphy and Ross McKitrick discuss the government policies, Fed actions, and banking movements that lead up to the 2008 crisis, and why the current economic situation is different. 

Mass shootings are bad enough, but progressives have turned them into political events. They then claim that further politicizing these tragedies will reduce their number.

Knee-jerk support for the police helps gun control advocates by undermining the most fundamental reason for gun ownership: the government's armed enforcers won't keep us safe and are likely to abuse their power.

Leftist regularly accuse capitalism of depending upon racism for its existence, but history tells a much different story.