A Florida Physician Runs for Congress
What does it mean to promote a politically conservative vision for healthcare? Accad and Koka interview Dr. Leo Valentin.
Recent Podcast Episodes
The Hydroxychloroquine Controversy Is a Reminder That Prescription Laws Are a Government Racket
In a free country, doctors would be free to prescribe whatever drugs they wish to anyone for any reason. In fact, individuals should be free to buy drugs without a special government-required doctor's note.
What the Failed 55-MPH Speed Limit Law Tells Us about COVID Lockdowns
Americans were once harangued by government "experts" about the need to slow down on highways in order to save lives. Few listened. Today, laws demanding everyone "stay at home" may suffer a similar fate.
The CDC Slashed the COVID-19 Fatality Rate to a Fraction of Earlier Estimate Used to Justify Lockdowns
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The prolockdown crowd has been making extraordinary claims. Meanwhile, they have produced little evidence to support their claims.
Michael Boldin on Hanging Out with 2 Live Crew and Sticking it to the NSA
Michael Boldin explains how he ended up advising state governments to kick the NSA out of their backyard.
The Folly of “Ask What You Can Do for Your Country”
Governments often demand that you "ask what you can do for your country," but those governments never guarantee us anything in return for our sacrifice.
The Fed Is Doing “Whatever It Takes” to Prop Up the Economy. That’s a Very Bad Thing.
There's now no difference between monetary policy and other government programs designed to prop up firms, industries, and other favored groups. The Fed is simply another government planning agency.
How Would a Socially Balanced Society Respond to a Pandemic?
The state currently enjoys a vastly unbalanced share of the power within a society, such an arrangement is not in any way preordained, and the assumption that it must be betrays a narrowness of vision and a lack of historical knowledge.
Why Didn’t the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It’s the Lockdowns
The 1958 pandemic killed twice as many people as COVID-19 has so far. Yet, the economy in 2020 has collapsed far worse than either in 1958 or the far worse pandemic of 1918.
The Chicago School versus the Austrian School
Although it's true that Austrians agree with Chicago economists on many policy issues, their approach to economic science is very different.
To Prevent Problematic Inflation, We Need More Production. Which Means There’s Trouble Ahead.
Price inflation is so difficult to predict, because there are so many moving parts: money supply, demand, money velocity, and supply of goods and services.
The Big Reason Mises Rejected Marx’s Dialectical Materialism
The weird thing about dialectical materialism is that Marx seems to have cobbled it together from two philosophies that contradicted each other.
Do Lockdowns Work? Mounting Evidence Says No
Most of the world's regimes enthusiastically destroyed their economies and consigned millions to destitution (and a rising tide of resulting health problems) in pursuit of a trendy and unproven theory. There's still not evidence that the lockdowns worked.
The Shutdown May Soon Collapse in Pennsylvania Thanks to Local Resistance
With such chaos, confusion, and incompetence playing out, it is little wonder that more and more Pennsylvanians are refusing to obey lockdown decrees.
Why Official Inflation Measures Don’t Work
In theory, it is possible to adjust inflation measures to account for the many constant changes in prices resulting from changing demand, quality, and innovations. But it's essentially impossible to execute these adjustments accurately.
The Guys Behind the Babylon Bee Interview Bob on the Fed, Krugman, and Jesus
The editors of the Babylon Bee podcast discuss the economic situation with Bob Murphy. Then, they ask a series of fun questions, against the backdrop of their shared Christianity.
How Government Intervention Triggers Depressions
Thanks to past interventions, the economy is now rife with malinvestments and prices that don't reflect real demand. The solution is to allow deflation and other types of painful readjustment. Otherwise true growth will elude us.
We’re All in This Together. But Not in the Way You Think.
Some claim "the rich" will be fine—or even better off—after the COVID panic destroys the economy for most of us. But there's a problem: the wealthy depend heavily on an economy fueled by the production and consumption of all workers and entrepreneurs.
Let’s Hope Deflation Is Headed Our Way
Central banks have decided that one of their main missions is to prevent deflation. But this only ends up causing the malinvestments that lead to economic busts.
What a Retracted JAMA Paper Tells Us about the Research Enterprise
Accad and Koka interview Eric Weinhandl, an epidemiologist whose investigation of a JAMA paper on dialysis patients led to its retraction—and subsequent republication. They also discuss the field of epidemiology during the COVID pandemic.
