Recent Podcast Episodes

In most economies, inventories are valued at market prices, while in China they are valued by the authorities and adjusted later. This is just one of many ways China manipulates GDP data.

Libertarians often wonder why socialism continues to be so popular, even though it has proved to be such a failure as a political ideology and as an economic system.

Our guest is Professor Stephen Senn, a world renowned statistician whose career has spanned the gamut of activities that involves statistical analysis in medicine, from teaching to research to consultancy.

Joe Biden thinks a centrally planned supply chain for healthcare supplies is necessary, because "We can no longer leave this to the private sector." There are many reasons why this is so very wrong.

Not only is taxation theft, but by taking away part of the money you earn, the government is forcing you to work for it.

Even when an economic bust appears, there may still be enough real savings in the economy to quickly put the economy back on track. This is what brings economic recovery, not artificial "stimulus."

First Bob explains his contest involving Adventures in Pacifism–winner gets 100 smackers. Then he explains the incredibly powerful, and surprisingly Austrian, result by which Kenneth Arrow showed it was impossible to coherently aggregate individual preferences into a social ranking.

Dan McCarthy, Editor at Large of The American Conservative, joins Bob to discuss his view that conservatives and libertarians should stop heaping contempt on democracy. McCarthy argues that the elites are the real threat to liberty, not the masses.

Unless the Left's opponents focus on changing voters' ideological drift to the left, candidates who want to actually win elections will have to keep moving left also.

Contra Marx, Mises understood that human desires and needs are not determined merely by biology. 

Jeff Deist returns to the show to comment on allegations of voter fraud; the future of politics in a post-Trump America; the death of the old GOP; the push for a “great reset;” the crippling of the economy via shutdown and bailouts; and more.

Dr. Bylund and Jeff Deist discuss Covid and government responses against the backdrop of ripple effects, Say's law, "market failure," and the inability of bureaucrats to make rational tradeoffs.

Circa casino’s new three-story, 78 million–pixel, high-definition screen in its sportsbook gambling compound may represent a new frontier in mega–building trends similar to those of skyscrapers.

In this outstanding study, Stephen Wertheim shows that both views that dominate American foreign policy are wrong. In doing so, he vindicates for our time the merits of a noninterventionist foreign policy.

The GOP is at its worst when it's run by the old Bush-Romney-Cheney faction that was in power before Trump. Will "Trumpism" endure, or will the party go back to its old warmongering, pro-establishment ways?

Decentralized societies that value local customs, institutions, and governments are obstacles to the expansion of the regime's power. Not surprisingly, central governments do all they can to destroy this.