Recent Podcast Episodes

Are we in a recovery? There has been no true recovery since 2008.  Private savings rate went down to zero during the boom. Traditional savings rate of Americans has been ten percent.

In this course, Robert Murphy, author of the study guide to Murray Rothbard's masterpiece, 'Man, Economy, and State', will guide you through the chapters in which the market economy can finally be seen as an integrated system.

Private property enabled all growth. Division of labor found employment for each man. Exchange is a win-win action. Risk taking tests ideas. Capital accumulation as production to make other things. The desire for a better life and the belief that it can happen.

Austrians have a different point of view about economic growth. Growth requires four ingredients: domestic private investment, sound money, private property, and free markets.

The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture sponsored by Dr. Don Printz, presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

Some of the questions asked of the panel were: What is the connection between the Fed and the current crisis?, What is the business cycle?, Does IP qualify as socialization? and, Is the housing bubble worldwide?

In this Mises View, Mark Thornton explains some unintended consequences of bulk NSA spying. Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute.

Featuring Thomas DiLorenzo, Doug French, Bob Higgs, Yuri Maltsev and Bob Murphy at the Mises Circle in Indianapolis: “Agricultural Subsidies:

Growth requires private saving first, then investment and then production. It cannot be accomplished through sheer credit and credit expansion. Money is not wealth.

Not unlike governments, ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff used his victims’ money to exhibit his “generosity” through charitable giving

Interviewed by Freedom Works host Paul Molloy, Mark Thornton discusses how sports stadiums are largely funded by the taxpayer.

Jeff Deist and Joseph Becker discuss the illusion of judicial remedies for most Americans.

Mark Thornton discusses the seven mega-trends facing our economy and what it means looking forward.

The modern health insurance industry, a by-product of government regulation and tax policy, has led to a system in which the consumer of medical se

The smaller the size of government, the less power it has to hobble free enterprise with taxes and regulations, writes Ron Paul.

In “The Theory of Money and Credit”, Mises provided the basics for the long-sought explanation for that mysterious and troubling econom