Podcast

They promised peace. What we got was another step toward global war and economic ruin. Mark Thornton isn’t buying the excuses.

Some non-economic arguments made by pronatalists are very good. But when it comes to economics, pronatalists often get it very wrong.

Mark Thornton warns that the US isn’t heading for a soft landing, it’s drifting into Mises’s crack-up boom.

Real estate investor and Mises Institute contributor Artis Shepherd joins Ryan to talk about how our stagnating economy is affecting multifamily housing and other commercial real estate. Banks and investors are using "extend and pretend" tactics to cover up the true state of the industry. 

Mark Thornton breaks down Murray Rothbard’s theory of interventionism: why free markets lift all boats, and government meddling sinks them.

Joshua Mawhorter joins us to talk about how the fiat-money theories of Modern Monetary Theory and chartalism aren't supported by the historical facts. 

Why is gold at a record high? How does modern mercantilism fuel today’s tensions? Are we all just pawns in a much bigger game?

Jonathan Newman joins Ryan McMaken to talk about the history behind the myth of "Fed independence." The Fed has never been politically independent of the US government, and it has enthusiastically helped fund the US government both in wartime and in peacetime. 

Mark Thornton discusses a lesser-known factor in the American Civil War: the Confederate “impressment” policy and its impact at Vicksburg.

Polish professor of political theory Łukasz Dominiak joins us to talk about how Poland embraced a market economy after the Cold War ended.  We discuss some of the factors behind Poland's rise from poverty.