Recent Podcast Episodes

Mark explains why the market for existing homes has been diverging from the market for new houses.

Contrary to the worldview of progressives, taxation and the coercion it brings are not part of a "social contract." Instead, they are implemented by force.

Veteran investigative journalist James Bovard joins Ryan and Tho to talk about the Durham Report and what it tells us about the media and the FBI.

Mises had hoped that democracy would lead to free societies after World War II ended. He did not foresee the illiberal turn in the West in the last decade.

Bob and Brian Albrecht discuss rational expectations, real business cycle theory, and how Alchian cracked the military's top secrets.

We’re supposed to go along with Green Energy schemes—as we did with masks, school lockdowns, and vaccinations to stop covid—because our government, media, and “public interest” groups insist that we “follow the science.”

The dollar became the dominant global currency not so much because of its own merits, but because of the self-destruction of the pound sterling caused by the British state and central bank.

Austrian business cycle theory points out that easy money leads to malinvestments. Once easy money disappears, the crash begins. Time to clean up malinvested assets.

The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.

While the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade have been well documented, people other than slave traders and slaveholders benefitted from it, with some surprising results.

Austrian economics is not dry theory. It helps us make sense of our world and shows that exchange and production have a place in our moral universe.

While the Fed and the Biden administration try to assure Americans that their banks are safe and secure, the numbers tell a different story.

President Biden's executive order to promote transgenderism on college campuses eviscerates long-held due process protections for accused students. This will not end well.

The real issue we face is not whether we should be in the red tribe or the blue tribe, but rather what will be the constituency for freedom.

After a long series of rate hikes, let's hope interest rate expectations are not being distorted by other factors of reality.

We hear ad nauseum from political and media elites that the war in Ukraine is about preserving "our freedoms." Murray Rothbard had something to say about this sophistry.

While politicians, media mavens, and the academic elite spread fear about artificial intelligence, AI is helping make life better for ordinary consumers.

Dr. Paul Cwik joins Bob to discuss the inverted yield curve's "signal" of an impending recession.

In their attempts to remake the economy, progressive elites are pushing ESG. What they forget is that the economy runs on real things, not ideology.

The fight between Russia and NATO is not about "democracy versus authoritarianism." Rather both the US and Russian states are doubling down because they are doing what states do: seeking power.