Recent Podcast Episodes

It will be interesting to see how Trump critics handle Mr. Cain. He has the one quality Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats have chosen to focus on when it comes to a Federal Reserve nominee: he isn’t a white guy.

Chris Calton details the intense fighting at The Battle of Shiloh, where thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers fought in a narrow portion of the battlefield nicknamed "The Hornet's Nest."

While Ocasio-Cortez has a degree in economics, she apparently never learned the lessons stressed by Hernando de Soto in his The Mystery of Capital.

Pundits are hoping that instead of a crisis, we just get a "global economic slowdown." Given the damage done by central banks, a sustained slowdown would be a best-case scenario.

Vytas Žukauskas tells the story of Lithuania after the Soviet Union.

Before wealth can be redistributed by the state, it must first be produced. But welfare-state policies end up destroying the very wealth which is necessary for redistribution.

Bryan Carmody, MD, discusses the machinations that constitute licensing examination in the United States.

Bob and Warren Mosler discuss the assumptions behind Modern Monetary Theory and its implications for economic policy.

What are interest rates, where do they come from, and what purpose do they serve? Economist Jeffrey Herbener explains why Turgot, Böhm-Bawerk, and Mises got it right.

At the onset of the Battle of Shiloh, the Confederacy caught the Union by surprise. But what should have been a quick victory turned into a bloody battle of attrition. 

The real problem was the money supply inflation that happened during the boom phase. Combating deflation in the bust phase only superficially treats a symptom of the boom-bust cycle.

Is there a way forward? Accad and Koka interview Paul McHugh, MD, one of the most important figures in academic psychiatry of the last thirty years.

The 2019 Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation. 

The 2019 Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Hunter Lewis.

The 2019 Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.

Featuring Hoppe’s remarks from his AERC panel discussion. Sponsored by Steve and Cassandra Torello.