Recent Podcast Episodes

Ryan and Zachary Yost try to figure out if there is any consistent philosophy that guides Donald Trump's foreign policy. 

Wanjiru Njoya appears on Action Radio with Greg Penglis to discuss some of her recent articles.

Ryan McMaken and Stephen Gardner discuss DOGE, birthright citizenship, corruption and waste in USAID, political decentralization, and more.

Perhaps John Maynard Keynes' best con job was convincing people that a growing economy needs inflation, lots of inflation. As David Gordon points out, however, Ludwig von Mises eloquently explained why inflation undermines the free market economy.

The Trump team plans to tinker with government spending, but this does nothing to address the real problem which is the current inflationist monetary experiment. 

A common refrain among college fans is, "The Transfer Portal and NIL are ruining college sports." But are they? Before we can answer that question, we have to be able to explain what is happening, and Austrian economics provides the best analytical tools.

President-Elect Trump has been threatening tariffs against BRICS countries unless they abandon their plans to abandon the US dollar. While Trump may come off as being "tough" in his negotiations, he cannot bluster his way to a stronger dollar, thanks to reckless monetary policies.

No macroeconomics or monetary theory course is complete without introduction of the Equation of Exchange, or MV = PQ. However, this equation explains nothing, praxeologically speaking. Instead, it clouds our understanding of how money fits into our economy. 

Like Santa, who gives free gifts to our children, people think of the state as providing services “for free.” However, the state cannot provide anything without first confiscating wealth from others—like the Grinch, who first stole all the presents in Whoville.

Most editorialists and pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's presidency a failure, but his activities after he left office as a rousing success. The truth is that his successful deregulation efforts have left a positive and lasting legacy.

Britain‘s new Labour Government is doing what leftist governments always do: raising taxes on everyone, but pretending that only the wealthiest citizens will pay more. Middle-class British farmers are quickly finding out that the taxman is coming for them too.

It was not long ago that signs for “Help Wanted” seemed to be in every store window. However, those signs are now being replaced.

Erick Brimen joins Bob to show how Próspera Honduras offers economic freedom and choice in regulatory treatment.

Ryan McMaken and economist Per Bylund discuss the nature of money in our paper-money world. Are Bitcoin and gold money? If not, how do they become money?  

The media and political outcry that came when President Trump temporarily froze USAID and some domestic funding revealed how the political establishment uses the plight of the most vulnerable people to keep their rigged political system in place.

"Where do you put him in the moral scale? It seems to me you put Mr. Nixon pretty close to the bottom."

"The theory of historians... is that anybody who's really radical is a nut."

"Given this historic opportunity, it seems to me we have a moral obligation not to blow it, if we can help it."

California secession would not change the US into a laissez-faire paradise, but the positive change would be immense.

Tom DiLorenzo appears on the Watchman Privacy Podcast.