Recent Podcast Episodes

President Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Cheryl Daley on The Homeschool How To Podcast.

The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First Amendment had almost nothing to do with it.

Bob uses clips from his recent interview with Eric Weinstein to explain why Weinstein thinks gauge theory can fix how economists measure the cost of living, and why Austrians shouldn’t dismiss him as a crank.

While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with risk management.

For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done is protect farmland.

Policy-made rates reshape everything: mortgages, bonds, stocks, and commodities.

Data shows that the marriage rate and the homeownership rate have been closely connected for decades. Historically, more marriage means more home buying, but government intervention has made buying a home much harder. 

Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same kinds of assets earlier generations procured. The result is inter-generational conflict.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down the latest FOMC meeting, the real takeaways from Powell’s Fed talk, and the continuing realities of Obamacare.

David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good thing. Americans should know how FDR’s presidency led to one disaster after another.

As Congress scrambles to extend emergency subsidies to keep Obamacare afloat, it can be tempting to view the bill that made healthcare less affordable as a total failure.

Elon Musk recently claimed that artificial intelligence will make money itself obsolete. He needs to read the literature of Austrian economics.

In this special mid-week episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton joins The Julia LaRoche Show.

Connor O’Keeffe explains why the New Right’s economic populists have adopted a progressive myth of “laissez-faire gone wrong,” and instead shows how a century of inflation, bailouts, regulation, and managed trade has rigged the system against younger Americans.

Dr. Jeffery L. Degner explains how an “inflation culture” reshapes marriage, adulthood, and family life for Gen Z and contrasts it with a path of courageous independence, sound saving, and earlier family formation.

Mises Senior Fellow Alex J. Pollock explains how the post-1971 “Nixonian” paper-money world makes the Fed both the engine of inflation and a prop for an oversized state, urging students to see central banking as the hidden arsonist behind booms, busts, and the erosion of their future purchasing power.

Dr. Mark Brandly examines what’s genuinely hard and what’s overstated about Gen Z’s economic situation, arguing that inflation, regulation, and a bloated welfare–bureaucratic state are driving their struggles, and urging students to learn economics and join the fight for liberty.

Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification. 

This week, Bob walks through two related debates: Hoppe’s criticism of Argentina's President Milei for not immediately closing Argentina’s central bank, and the follow-up exchange between Guido Hülsmann and Philipp Bagus over dollarization and the peso.