Recent Podcast Episodes

Bob Murphy on why we don't, in fact, need Nancy Pelosi for anything.

Industrious low-income people often must turn to doing business in the black market to avoid the burdensome costs of government regulations, writes

Shinzo Abe’s so-called “three arrows” of monetary stimulus, fiscal stimulus, and structural reform, have crippled the Japanese economy, writes Andy

In a free-market economy, firms threatened with competition often respond by searching for ways to increase efficiencies, attempting to lower costs

Peter Klein discusses property rights, privilege, and free markets, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision.

It is now clear that the Fed and the European Central Bank are hard-wired to inflate the money supply while encouraging banks to make excessively r

Many Christians call for legislation to regulate, control, and ban activities that they deem as social vices, writes Bryan Cheang.

For 100 years, the Fed has served to protect the interests of powerful banks through inflationary monetary policy, writes Benjamin Wiegold.

Socialism can only be maintained when one group imposes its will by force on all other groups, writes D.W. MacKenzie.

ECB’s Mario Draghi has taken over from Ben Bernanke as the world’s most enthusiastic money printer, writes Brendan Brown.

Jeff Deist discusses how the Fed creates a perilous landscape in which there is no honest pricing—everything has been distorted—even at the consumer level.

A result of a complex system of subsidies and other government favors, it is unclear that fracking would be sustainable in a truly free marketplace

Given the many failures of the state, many will mistakenly seek a solution in “limited government,” writes David Gordon.

In his new book, Capital In the Twenty-First Century, Piketty fails to understand how savings and investment work, writes George Reisman This audio

A little-known loophole in federal law allows people with disabilities to be employed below the minimum wage, writes Nicholas Freiling.

Defenders of government coercion often claim that residence within a state’s boundaries imply consent to be taxed, writes Walter Block.

The European Central Bank’s recent move to negative interest rates is a sign that the ECB is hitting the panic button, writes Frank Hollenbeck.