Recent Podcast Episodes

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.

Butler Shaffer's contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.

Although Frédéric Bastiat disproved it years ago, many still believe that natural disasters increase economic growth, writes Frank Hollenbeck.

Peter Klein addresses the frequent criticism that private investors and entrepreneurs have too short of a time horizon.

When governments spend, regulate, and tax, they decrease household take-home pay while diverting savings and investment to the government class, wr

Merely increasing demand does not increase production or produce wealth, writes Patrick Barron.

Entrepreneur and businessman Helio Beltrão talks to Jeff Deist about crony capitalism and the upcoming FIFA World Cup, and why the Liberty Movement

Swiss voters recently rejected a proposal to introduce the world’s highest minimum wage, writes Benjamin M. Wiegold.

Inflation puts a brake on social mobility: the rich stay rich (longer) and the poor stay poor (longer) than they would in a free society, writes Gu

Interviewed by host Tom Woods, Jeff Deist discusses Liberty’s past and future.

Thanks to cheap money and malinvestment, new record-setting skyscrapers are being planned and built as the global fiat-money-induced boom continues