Recent Podcast Episodes

Just as, for them, liberty must be the highest political end, peace must be the highest end of foreign policy.

A foreign policy that seeks to maintain a global empire is entirely incompatible with the laissez-faire, free-market system at home that many hawkish self-described libertarians claim to support.

President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time for policy reset.

According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax. 

In dealing with the question of why the United States, a country founded on liberty, turned into a militaristic behemoth, Ralph Raico looked to the work of historian Arthur Ekirch for answers.

Bob sits down with macro researcher Luke Gromen of Forest for the Trees to discuss the cascading supply chain consequences of a closed Strait of Hormuz.

Ludwig von Mises Mises argues in Nation, State, and Economy that nationalism is compatible with economic and political liberty if it is peaceful, based on self-determination as an individual right.

Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.

What looks like market strength may be a delayed reckoning. Mark Thornton explains the signals, the Fed’s playbook, and where the next bust is likely to hit first.

Joseph Solis-Mullen joins Ryan McMaken to talk about the real history of the libertarian movement, and its origins. 

On VRIC Media, Darrell Thomas talks with Jonathan Newman about the real problem behind debt and deficits.

Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed many but not all appears, by that standard, either unwilling or unable.

As the socialistic Canadian medical system runs aground, the government actively promotes physician-assisted suicide as a way to save the system and promoting “die with dignity” at the same time.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor discuss Fed drama, plummeting consumer sentiment, and how the American economy is becoming increasingly like a casino. 

The Trump administration continues its bellicose war against Iran, destroying opportunities for prosperity through meaningful commerce along the way.

This Tax Day, as the American public reflects on what our government is using our money for, there is growing opposition to the behavior of the Israeli government. Yet we’re all still forced to send it some of our hard-earned tax dollars. Enough.

While Tax Freedom Day is mid-April, Rothbard’s measure of the government's fiscal burden reveals that Americans don’t truly start working for themselves until June 5, over seven weeks later.

It took centuries to end the idea that taxes kept the privileged class in comfort and financed their wars. But now we're told taxes = civilization.

There is no shortfall of liquidity in financial markets. In fact, there is so much that inflation has become a way of life for market participants. This is not a good thing.

In this time of war and uncertainty, we should expect to see the prices of precious metals rise and fall and the only certainty will be uncertainty.