Podcasts

America’s residential mortgage market is mostly controlled by government. Ryan McMaken and Alex Pollock talk about how government corporations like Fannie Mae are fueling America’s housing affordability crisis. 

The latest political hot potato puts our standard of living at a critical crossroads. Mark Thornton identifies the missing road signs. 

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

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

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?  

Opinion polls and the latest electoral results are at odds with the facts as presented by mainstream media and government statistical offices. What is going on?

Ryan McMaken and Heather Carson discuss how homeschooling is a way to resist and sabotage the many ways the state centralizes power and destroys private institutions. 

Pundits have labeled piggy banks small change, irrational and wasteful, “just sitting around doing nothing.” As usual, they are wrong.

Economist Jonathan Newman joins Ryan to discuss how deficit spending and runaway debt is causing price inflation and higher interest rates. 

Is there a magic wand to solve the problem of high beef prices? Yes, actually.