Recent Podcast Episodes
29. Capital Formation
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
17. The Country Banks Resist
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
22. Greenbacks
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
27. Interest Rates
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
15. A False Start
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
20. The Stuffolk’s Demise
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
25. The Gold Standard Era with the National Banking System, 1879-1913
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell (1903–1950)
One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a libertarian in the sense we have in mind when we use that word today...
Our Greatest Presidents?
In the 1940s and early ‘50s, a school of establishment historians existed who made it their business to extol the virtues of the “Great
The Monetary or Circulation-Credit Theory of the Trade Cycle
The British Currency School did not criticize the multifarious projects to lower or abolish interest by means of a banking reform.
Defending the Speculator
The truth of the matter is that, far from causing starvation and famines, it is the speculator who prevents them.
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912)
Freethought, de Cleyre wrote, was "the right to believe as the evidence, coming in contact with the mind, forces it to believe. This implies the admission of any and all evidence bearing upon any subject."...
The Impact of the BP Oil Spill
Bob DelGiorno of the “First News” radio program on WWL, New Orleans, interviews Professor Walter Block, 7 June 2010.
Credit Expansion vs. Simple Inflation
There are instances in which the methods of genuine credit expansion are used for an utterly different purpose: to allow the government to take adv
The New Libertarian Generation
The fact is that, exactly as Mark Lilla fears, when people distrust authority in a generalized way and start thinking for themselves, often without much relevant information to guide them, they'll make many decisions that they'll later regret. But whose decisions are they to make?...
Is Statism Safer for the Environment?
Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Professor Walter Block on free-market environmentalism, 27 May 2010.