Podcast

Debt, tariffs, and money printing: Mark Thornton explains how the policy machine rewires markets, and why metals and commodities react first.

Seven four-letter words: one clear roadmap for staying productive, solvent, and sane in chaotic times.

Italian economist Bernardo Ferrero joins Ryan McMaken to discuss the state of European politics over taxes, spending, inflation, and fiscal and monetary policy. 

A historic metals shakeout, a simple “stacking plan,” and a bigger question: how do you stay independent when the system punishes savers?

Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics.

Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute and Christopher Calton of the Independent Institute talk about why politicians want higher home prices. Even Trump now admits he wants higher home prices, and it's because older voters want their asset prices to go up forever.

Mark Thornton presents a timely interview with Elijah K. Johnson that underscores how quickly “melt-ups” can flip into sharp corrections.

Entrepreneurs, prices, and profit-and-loss coordinate the division of labor that makes prosperity possible.

Mark Thornton shares an in-depth interview with Jeremy McKeown on the long rivalry between Austrian and Keynesian economics, and why Austrian ideas may be gaining new traction today. 

Ryan McMaken and historian Larsen Plyler talk about how the Americans of the 1770s envisioned a new community of independent and sovereign states. The first constitution made this clear. But then the new counterrevolutionaries like Hamilton wrote a new constitution designed to create one big national state with vast new powers.