Recent Podcast Episodes

Patrick Newman offers a Jacksonian playbook for dismantling the deep state in our time.

This panel exposes flawed assumptions of Modern Monetary Theory, including the origins of money, government spending, job guarantees, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.

In this provocative and unfiltered lecture, Hoppe reflects on war, empire, the Frankfurt School, Javier Milei, and why libertarians must reject both the left and the right to defend true freedom.

Was Keynesianism ever truly apolitical? In this rigorous lecture, Edward W. Fuller reexamines the IS-LM model through the lens of Keynes’s political writings and reveals how modern macroeconomics inherited not just a framework—but an ideology.

What do COVID lockdowns, currency collapses, and hyperinflation all have in common? According to Steve Hanke, they all reveal how central planners manipulate fear, money, and power to control society.

Bob responds to flawed arguments about trade deficits.

Are economic crashes inevitable, or are they the direct result of government meddling? History shows a pattern—but politicians and central bankers refuse to take the blame.

The state was born claiming to protect people, but in reality, it became the best-organized aggressor against the persons and property of the public.

Our current paper fiat money system comes from a long process of building up state power that destroyed private money, ended truly private banking, and abolished the market system of competing currencies. It took 300 years, and we are now facing the inflationary results. 

While the Trump administration claims it is breaking with the policies of Joe Biden, it is continuing US attacks on the Houthis of Yemen supported by the previous president.

Boom, bust, repeat. The Fed fuels bubbles, and now we’re watching them pop. Mark Thornton joins Scott Horton to dissect the economy’s next moves.

This episode explores the economic implications of deflation, debunking the mainstream fear that falling prices cripple economic growth.

Ryan McMaken and economist Jonathan Newman look at the government's alleged $750 billion gold reserve, how it got there, and why it's time to privatize the gold.

Are America’s so-called "free market policies" really free? Tho Bishop joins Dinesh D’Souza to expose the myths behind global trade, tariffs, and the Federal Reserve’s destructive role in the economy.

President Trump has indicated that a recession could be coming and the pundits are playing the blame game. Don‘t look to anyone in Washington for a coherent explanation for the downturn, however. Look to the Austrians instead.

Does the US government need a gold reserve? No, it doesn't. The government's gold is basically an emergency slush fund for elites to use to preserve their political power.

Is "extractive" always a dirty word? While mining and energy fuel civilization, modern environmentalism has reshaped public perception—and the economy. What happens when ideology clashes with reality?

Should we audit the US gold hoard? First, let's take a look at what the official numbers say about how big the US gold reserve is, where it is located, and how much it is worth in US dollars.

Bob argues that the only way to cripple Mexican drug cartels is through US drug legalization.

Ryan McMaken and Chris Calton examine the many ways that government intervention has driven up home prices and made affordable homes harder to find.