Recent Podcast Episodes
Gold is Free Enterprise Money
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005
The Continuing Bull Market in Gold: How High Can It Go?
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005
Where in the World? Best Places for Your Money for 2005
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
Russia: Don’t Cry for Yukos
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino in Las Vegas on February 18, 2005
The Myth of Neutral Interest Rate Policy
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
6. Inflation: North and South
Inflation is a giant rip off, a stealth tax stealing purchasing power. Money is not neutral. The first receivers of new money benefit. Savers and those on fixed incomes struggle. From 1857 until the war was a period of “free banking” where the fed had nothing to do with the banks and the states had little control over them. High economic growth and prosperity prevailed.
What the Austrians Say about Prediction
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
International Markets Panel: Muddling Through Armageddon
The Falling Dollar: Our Currency - Their Problem?
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
Ludwig von Mises, Meet Benjamin Graham: Value Investing from an Austrian Point of View
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
Destructive Myths About Money, Interest Rates and Business Cycles
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
Money, Government and International Politics
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
5. Confederate Blockade of the South
The Confederate government blockaded the Southern economy by bad policies like impressment and trying to run the blockade themselves. The government declared that fifty percent of all cargo space had to be for the Confederate government.
How High Can the Price of Gold Go?
Part of the Brown Bag Seminar series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 10 February 2005.
Introduction to Anarchy
Presented to Dr. Brad Birzer’s seminar on “American Order and Disorder,” Hillsdale College, on 9 February 2005.
4. The Rhett Butler Effect
Blockade boat owners turned to engines for speed instead of sails. Blockade running became more expensive as the blockade became stricter. Certain prices increased much faster and higher. Most goods desired in the South had to be imported.
Trapped in Fiscal Fantasy: The Alabama State Government Budget
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on February 3, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.
Hard Drugs for Little Kids?
Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 3 February 2005.