Recent Podcast Episodes

Do Austrian theories also apply to financial markets?

Contrary to popular belief, regulatory agencies do not improve the quality of our lives, nor do they provide safety or security. They need to be abolished, as free markets provide their own effective forms of regulation.

Ryan and Tho and guest Karl Streitel talk about how the public school monopoly conditions students for obedience while failing to educate them.

Ryan and Zach talk about how the realities of expensive industrial warfare are still relevant.

"If you have Austrian Economics and libertarian theory in your educational background, you look at history very differently."

"Ludwig von Mises was a true genius and we can certainly see that on display in his magnum opus, Human Action."

Mises's comments apply to today's debates on environmental policy.

"Mainstream modeling in macroeconomics has not been a way forward."

"I've read Human Action cover to cover at least seven times, I think, and every time I come back to it, I'm just more blown away by how smart Mises is."

What are all these insane criticisms that Mises is spending so much time addressing? Why doesn’t he get on to regular economics?

Human Action and Mises' New York University seminar had a huge impact. It's the reason that we have a modern Austrian school.

Guido Hülsmann on why Human Action embodies the research paradigm of praxeological realism.

The record high price of copper has serious implications for our economic future.

Mises is a person who can set us right.

Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation. 

In a recent symposium on Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, philosopher Matt Zwolinski takes issue with Rothbard on Murray’s views of freedom and property rights.

Despite the media definitions of the Trump trial as a “hush money trial,” the actual criminal charges are contrived and legally unprecedented. This is a show trial.

Despite statements from Biden and other progressives, profits in a market economy are not a form of plunder. Instead, they represent entrepreneurial gains that mostly benefit consumers.

For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all? 

Unfortunately, these assaults on the First Amendment continue to find support even among people who pretend to be in support of freedom and opposed to federal power.