Recent Podcast Episodes

Trump's executive order providing a short deferment on payroll taxes is not really a tax cut. But many voters may perceive it as one.

No doubt, many of Harris's detractors will call her radical or a tool of the far left. The reality is actually far more alarming.

Although it's easier to buy guns in Indiana and Wisconsin than in Chicago, homicide rates are lower in those states than in either Illinois or Chicago.

For the foreseeable future, war between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be on the table, occasionally turning hot, just as it has in the last weeks. This conflict has no peaceful solution possible other than the one offered by Ludwig von Mises.

The "experts" intend to keep locking populations down again and again until there's a vaccine. But what if there's no vaccine coming?

As 20 million Americans fall into unemployment, no crisis is so big that anyone in Washington would think of cutting military spending, including dollars spent on military gear for cops.

The highly regulated, protectionist Japanese economy, and an overall collectivist culture, leaves little room for flexibility in executive pay. This makes Japanese businesses less competitive, and work life more miserable.

The global "elites" of the World Economic Forum seek a "Great Reset" that will usher in a new and far more powerful technocracy defined by central planning and the end of freedom as we know it.

Joshua Gottlieb is an economist who co-authored a recent paper examining the effect of government policy and physician income.

Economic growth results from increasing production, and the money supply is always sufficient to foster exchange. The boom-bust cycle only occurs when production is distorted by a growing money supply.

Adrian Lee Oliver tells Bob his personal story of police brutality along with his critique of today's "anti-racism" campaign.

Debt matters, even if interest rates are low. Increasing debt and spending means lower growth and weaker real wages in the future.

The American revolutionaries created a decentralized, locally controlled polity for a reason. Abolishing federalism to achieve short-term political ends is a reckless way to go.

If there is a new dawn, it is for the Sinicization of Europe—China-style stimulus administered alongside a severely ailing financial system kept whole by widespread financial and monetary repression.

Cryptocoins aren't entirely anonymous, and the state is hard at work gathering as much information as it can on all crypto users.

Contrary to the popular narrative that government police establish law and order, there is good reason to believe that the advent of militarized police in the 1800s led to an escalation of riots and political corruption while offering little law or order.

Shelton’s nomination is best seen as a litmus test for Republican senators. Are they interested in ideological diversity within American institutions, or willing to stand with the academic gatekeepers that have given us the Leviathan we have today?

Hunter Hastings joins Jeff Deist with great insights into the social benefits of profit vs. interest, entrepreneurial risk, progressing and retrogressing economies, and the bunkum known as the "Paradox of Saving." They focus on Chapter 8 of Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State. 

A survey of the research shows that the science of mask wearing is hardly "settled." And this up-in-the-air nature of it all is a reminder of how immoral it is to impose mandates on people, backed with state violence.

According to Keynesians, wealth effects result from money creation, and they have a beneficial impact. The Keynesians are right that wealth effects exist. But they're wrong about who benefits.