Taxing Capital Leads to Capital Consumption
Progressive governments in the name of equity are calling for taxation of capital gains. They really are demanding destruction of capital through capital consumption.
Recent Podcast Episodes
In the Event of an Official US Bankruptcy
Economically speaking, the US government is bankrupt even if the government won’t admit what is obvious. But how would an actual bankruptcy proceeding go?
The Money Supply Has Plummeted in the Biggest Drop Since the Great Depression
With negative growth now falling to near –10 percent, money-supply contraction is now the largest we've seen since the Great Depression.
Progressives Want to Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs but Need the Wealth They Create
Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.
Finance Discovers Sting: “How Fragile We Are”
Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.
Where Is That Darn Recession?
Mark takes a look at all the wrong predictions of recessions in recent years.
Is There an Optimum Growth Rate of Money?
Monetarists believe there is an optimum growth rate of money. However, a fiat money system itself is unstable, so there is no optimum growth rate.
Rothbard’s Button Doesn’t Exist, but It Needs to Be Invented
In 1948, Ludwig Erhardt rescued a German economy that was in shambles simply by invoking free markets and currency reform. Our economy needs its Rothbard moment.
Fear-Mongering Over the Debt Ceiling
Heritage Fellow Peter St. Onge joins Bob to set the record straight on several popular talking points about the debt ceiling.
An Austrian Perspective vs the Financial Mainstream
This episode of Good Money with Tho Bishop features guest Ryan Griggs of Griggs Capital Strategies.
Comprehensive Reform versus Piecemeal Reform
Should political reform be the result of a much-discussed comprehensive plan? Or should it come about through decentralized decision-making that deals with the situations at hand?
The Regime’s Lies Over the Debt Ceiling
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho tackle the debt ceiling debate.
Socialism, Minority Groups, and Personal Liberties
People from socially and economically marginized groups in the USA tend to support socialism. Yet socialists have a long and bloody history of suppressing these very groups.
The Fed Is Overindebted, Isn’t It?
By any conventional measures of finance, the Federal Reserve has negative equity. In the long run, cooking the books only puts off the day of reckoning.
Did Tucker’s Last Major Guest Lead to His Firing?
Tucker Carlson has rankled the ruling elites for many years. But was his interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. a bridge too far?
The Men Who Made the West
Recorded at The Depot Craft Brewery & Distillery in Reno, Nevada on May 20th, 2023.
Was Japanese Colonialism the Engine of Later Prosperity for Korea and Taiwan? Probably Not
While Japan made some technological transfers to these places, prosperity came to them later, with the advent of free-market economies.
Property Rights, Civilization, and Their Enemies
Recorded at The Depot Craft Brewery & Distillery in Reno, Nevada on May 20th, 2023.
The Duke Lacrosse Case: How a Lie Became Official Campus Policy
Recorded at The Depot Craft Brewery & Distillery in Reno, Nevada on May 20th, 2023.
Argentina Sleepwalks into Hyperinflation (Yet Again)
A century ago, Argentina was one of the world's wealthiest nations and the Argentine peso rivaled the dollar. Today, Argentina is famous for periodic hyperinflation.
