Recent Podcast Episodes

Recorded at The Depot Craft Brewery & Distillery in Reno, Nevada on May 20th, 2023.

While Japan made some technological transfers to these places, prosperity came to them later, with the advent of free-market economies.

Recorded at The Depot Craft Brewery & Distillery in Reno, Nevada on May 20th, 2023.

It is the right of the consumer, not the regime, to determine what lighting sources work best for them.

Another mass shooting, another call for gun control. However, when it comes to mass killings, Washington sets the sorry example.

Modern Western culture is dominated by demands for "social justice." But how does one even define this term, and does social justice even produce justice in the end?

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

Taxpayer-funded company Dominion is suing private parties for saying things the company doesn't like. These lawsuits illustrate how defamation laws can be used to destroy free speech.

As the US government debases the dollar, other nations take notice and possibilities increase that another currency based on sound principles might emerge.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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