Recent Podcast Episodes

On this special episode of Power and Market, Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O'Keeffe to talk about the recent Supporters Summit, the legacy of Mises.org, and a few books they are reading.

Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last.

Dr. Joe Salerno argues we shouldn't fear falling prices: productivity-driven deflation raises living standards, while “deflation phobia” props up inflation targeting.

The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors.

The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers.

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"

There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?

Bob explains Lerner’s Symmetry Theorem and shows how tariffs ripple through exchange rates, exports, and trade balances—then tests those predictions against today’s Trump-era tariff shocks.

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.

Mark Thornton explains why $50 silver is a psychological barrier.

Bob breaks down the fears about AI-driven unemployment and shows why economic reasoning still favors human prosperity in a high-tech world.

Gold and silver make sense—until government “helps.”

Ryan and political scientist Joseph Solis-Mullen talk about how taxes, war, and the state are all part of a centuries-old formula for impoverishing the productive class while enriching the government class. 

The yearning for a state-controlled system is not born of compassion for others but rather of infantile selfishness.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at this week's headlines, including the prospects for the Gaza peace deal, blue state propaganda, the Jay Jones text message scandal, and an inevitable new subsidy for Obamacare.

“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.

Bari Weiss’s appointment to head CBS News has brought cries of anguish from the usual suspects on the left and approval from some on the right. But will she really bring the kind of change that will challenge the political establishment? Probably not.

Once upon a time, American firms built with the long term in view, and the government did not try to hinder them. Today, thanks to reckless federal government spending, we are living hand-to-mouth, accumulating massive debts, and soon enough will be broke.

“The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican Acts were monstrous.”