Recent Podcast Episodes

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.

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

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.

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.

The vastly greater productivity of a relatively-free populace makes for greater per capita tax revenue, writes Dan Sanchez.

Any government intervention in the economy, such as, loan programs, regulations, and subsidies, creates malinvestments, writes Dayne Girard.

Governments don’t like it when neighboring countries offer freedoms not available at home, writes Ryan McMaken.

Government intervention in health care has driven up health care prices.

Smuggling has often played a pivotal role in important events and episodes in American history, writes Mark Thornton.

In 1946, as now, the government held up the threat of deflation to justify a policy of ultra-low interest rates, writes James Grant.