Recent Podcast Episodes

Regardless of government actions, many consumers, workers, and producers may seek changes that reduce exposure to disease in the workplace. The best way to do this is through markets.

State and local government budgets are in danger of collapsing. This will impel politicians to find ways to end the lockdowns. Politicians may not care whether you have a job. But they care deeply about their government budgets and jobs for their friends.

So far, when it comes to disarming the population, governments haven't been quite as terrible as one might have predicted during the COVID-19 panic.

Dr. Peter Klein breaks down Part Six of Human Action, offering insights into Mises and "the Hampered Market Economy." This is a conversation you don't want to miss! 

In fact, the average for total deaths for this year (averaging the first fourteen weeks of the year for each year) shows a decline in 2020 so far.

During March 2020, year-over-year (YOY) growth in the money supply was at 11.37 percent. We're now seeing a trend similar to what we saw during late 2008 and early 2009.

Readers of a certain age may remember the hysteria that surrounded AIDS for a period of the 1980s. Anthony Fauci was a central player in that, too.

Although it may seem as if landlord simply collect money from tenants without working, nothing could be further from the truth. Landlords invest their stored labor—savings—at a risk and with the knowledge that they won't recoup their money for some time. In the creating or renovating rental properties, they aid those who can't store their labor yet—tenants and laborers.

When governments and central banks announce massive stimulus packages at the very beginning of a crisis, they bet on a speedy recovery and a return to normal as if nothing had happened. This is far from the case.

Central banks are at the heart of government mega–bailout packages. Their ongoing expansion of the money supply won't end well.

Collecting government data on the total number of COVID-19 cases has always been a mess. The number is likely far higher than the "official" numbers, and this means government proclamations about fatality rates are little more than bad guesses.

Experts such as Anthony Fauci are experts only in the narrow field of their expertise. They have almost no knowledge or expertise in other fields, including—apparently—the basics of how human societies function.

Wouldn’t you feel great knowing that your stock picking is fully insured by the Fed? Billionaires and wealthy hedge fund managers know the feeling.

Governments are set to make mask wearing mandatory in many places. Yet some companies are committed to limiting supply and charging monopoly prices thanks to government-created patents.

Efforts by US policymakers to boost crude prices and to throw a lifeline to high-cost US crude producers is the exact opposite of what prices are telling us the market needs at this time.

The COVID-19 depression will expose the Las Vegas convention center bubble for what it is: a massive malinvestment.

From medical practices to grocery shipments, governments are loosening restrictions in order to keep goods and services affordable. But if these restrictions are unnecessary now, why claim they are ever necessary?

Bureaucrats cannot conjure wealth from nothing. They only have what they extract from the private sector. Unfortunately, the bureaucrats are now starving the private sector of funding while making government budgets ever larger.