Recent Podcast Episodes

Mark Thornton presents a one-minute primer on the "Skyscraper Curse".

Peter Klein discusses who should make the decisions to best allocate scarce resources and time.

Easy money policy hurts most people, particularly workers and savers, and redistributes their wealth to the ruling elites, writes Mark Thornton.

Libertarians must never compromise, even if it means accepting partial victories, writes Murray N. Rothbard.

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses the failed War on Drugs, and the current state of the U.S. economy.

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses gun control in the early days of Nazi Germany.

Mark Thornton explains how silver money keeps inflation in check.

In socialist countries of old, it was easy to find cookies and candies in state-owned stores while fresh meat and bread was rare, writes Jim Fedako

Interviewed by host Redmond Weissenberger, Mark Thornton discusses markets, Keynes, Keynesians, and general economic craziness.

Ludwig von Mises was asked to respond to the question: "Are the interests of the American wage earners in conflict with those of their employers, or are the two in agreement?" 

One of Carl Menger’s contributions was his primacy of the consumer in determining value and price, not only in the marketplace but in all economic

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton explains how crony capitalism lead to the banning of industrial hemp in the United States. Dr.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 385-412 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

War increases government spending, inhibits free trade, and lays the foundation for numerous future conflicts, writes Ron Paul.

Supreme Court justices are politicians, who behave in the manner Public Choice theory tells us they should, and they seek to preserve and expand th

Mark Thornton discusses Martin Wolf's recent claim that "cautious savers no longer serve a useful economic purpose".

Interviewed by host Robert Wenzel, Jeff Deist discusses the Mises Institute’s growth and popularity, the legacies of Mises and Rothbard, and

The real sovereign is the small ruling class that makes the final decisions in the state of emergency, writes Carlo Lottieri and Luigi Marco Bassan

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses Martin Wolf’s support for continued easy money policy, and also the latest push by t