Recent Podcast Episodes

Josiah Neeley and Bob Murphy have a lively discussion, arguing on some of Bob’s previously articulated points regarding the recent Texas freeze and blackouts.

Few political follies are more hazardous than presuming that one’s liberties are forever safe. If liberty is God’s gift to humanity, then why were most people who ever lived on Earth denied this divine bequest?

Rob Bradley explains the role of Sam Insull (co-founder of General Electric) in showing what a free market in electricity would look like, and criticizes Texas’ ERCOT as a central planning agency.

Nuland was an advisor to ultrainterventionist Dick Cheney and would continue the costly expansionist policies of the Bush and Obama years. 

Wage hike advocates effectively seek to force entrepreneurs to raise the costs of production after many of them have barely survived what became a catastrophic 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The new covid relief bill signals that whatever restraint on public spending existed before 2020 is now all but gone. And the bill represents the beginning of a new era: an era that can be likened to that of the New Deal. 

Local politicians have pretended the Lemp killing never happened and the media let them get away with it—the same way that most of the New York media covered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home catastrophe last year.

An explosion in the money supply has driven many corporate managers to turn to stock buybacks as a safe alternative to holding on to depreciating cash. This means many companies are decapitalizing.

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture.

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture.

Welcome to the 2021 Austrian Economics Research Conference.

Channeling Hayek, Devine argues that markets are critical but not sufficient. Free and equal individualism requires a mythos and a logos, a moral order rooted in God, morality, law, or tradition—otherwise we devolve into warring factions

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss why Biden can't reverse the loss of faith in America's institutions.

Wind and solar power can work well when placed in an ideal location. Much of the time, however, these projects require a lot of fossil fuel to produce, but then never deliver the promised "zero-carbon" energy.

Gary Wolfram joins Bob to discuss Gary’s background as an economist in both academia and the political sphere, and why government intervention hurts the people it ostensibly helps.

Pulling troops out of South Korea is an important step in changing the conversation on American foreign policy, which is swamped in platitudes of promoting missionary enterprises abroad and finding new bogeymen to confront.

US government agencies like the FBI remain incapable of bringing foreign online scammers to justice. Fortunately, in their place, internet “vigilantes” have answered the call to action.

Rising unemployment is just one outcome of minimum wage mandates. Capital accumulation and labor productivity will also be hurt. 

Dr. Accad interviews Dr. Koka regarding his latest article entitled “Correlative Adventures with COVID”

The discontent and unrest that followed the 2020 presidential election was, at least in major part, one of the innumerable destructive consequences of an almost 250-year-old error in economic theory made by Adam Smith: namely, the belief that profits are a deduction from wages.