Recent Podcast Episodes

Canadian political, academic, and media elites "worry" that democracy in that country may be under attack. Actually, democracy works all too well there.

Thanks to copyright laws, the estate of Roald Dahl can not only rewrite his books, but can also essentially outlaw the old versions. Only books in the public domain are safe from this.

Secularists cheer the decline of religion in Western societies, but that loss comes at a huge cost: the decline of civilization itself.

People are making painful adjustments. What will the Fed do?

In our technocratic age, it is easy to dismiss the latest technological developments as an avenue toward freedom, but some of them still bode well for markets.

It is easy to dismiss Chinese advancements in electric vehicles as the result of government subsidies, but private entrepreneurship also is playing a major role.

President Biden's recent call to "buy American" is doomed to failure, just like all other protectionist schemes.

Opponents of secession say secession is wrong if some people in the population don't want it and say they will be worse off. The American revolutionaries disagreed and seceded anyway.

Is the dollar now unbound, as the dominant political tool of the dominant nation? Jeff and Bob take a look at how strong the US dollar really is. 

Rest in peace, "technolibertarianism." There was a time when many believed tech entrepreneurs would usher in a new era of freedom. Unfortunately, the new tech elites are technocratic collaborators with the regime.

People are innovative—if government doesn't get in the way. Entrepreneurs in developing countries find alternatives for people cut off from commercial banking services.

Would red-state America be a "third world country" without support from the federal government?

At the heart of Keynesian business cycle theory is the so-called liquidity trap. Contra Keynes, however, economies don't falter because a sudden increase in the demand for money.

When we see real bipartisan action in Congress, it usually is for the worst.

In the name of "economic development," San Antonio's government is seeking to seize a thriving business near the Alamo.

One of the fundamental tenets of Austrian economics is the ordinal value scale. Augustine articulated the idea more than a thousand years before Carl Menger wrote his pathbreaking Principles of Economics.

In 1991, India's political leaders moved away from socialism, embracing markets and improving the economy. But Indian elites continue to push socialism to the detriment of the people.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.