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Jeff Deist and Danielle DiMartino Booth discuss Fed Chairman Jay Powell's performance to date and whether Austrians and permabears overestimate the Fed's influence on the economy.

Patients come in all sizes and shapes, and with varying tolerance for complications and risk. Is it plausible that a single dosing regimen can optimize treatment for everybody?

Chris Calton recounts the Trail of Blood on Ice: an attempt by neutral fugitive Indians to escape to Kansas.

Bob Murphy interviews Steve Landsburg, author of The Armchair Economist.

The reform of medical education is a usually boring conversation that needs its own reform. The discussion we have on this episode does just that.

Connor Boyack and Jeff Deist discuss the importance of offering an early alternative to the fantasyland view of the state that kids get in schools.

We revisit the question of brain death, this time with a more practical focus. What should doctors tell families of patients who fulfill neurological criteria for brain death?

Chris Calton recounts the division of the Cherokee nation into those who favored the Union and those who wanted to ally with the Confederacy.

Antiwar hero and all-around genius Scott Horton joins Bob for a lengthy discussion.

In this 32-minute talk, Jörg Guido Hülsmann examines and summarizes Mises’s insights and innovations in understanding money, its origins, and

Economic knowledge should not be the sole province of technical experts, but it is. The price we pay for this ignorance is that most people can easily fall prey to the political class and to the technocrats whose economic theory is generally far from sound.

Michael Boldin and Jeff Deist discuss the realities behind breaking up the US politically.

Should doctors have something to say about guns? If so, what should they say?

Chris Calton presents some important pre-war background history on the Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminoles.

"Sure, maybe capitalism produces more goods more affordably," the Marxists say, "but it corrupts our souls." In this 90-minute lecture, English professor Paul Cantor discusses how culture has become the "last frontier" of Marxism.

In this episode, Bob talks to Mises Institute president Jeff Deist.

In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.