Podcast

Mises had hoped that democracy would lead to free societies after World War II ended. He did not foresee the illiberal turn in the West in the last decade.

Veteran investigative journalist James Bovard joins Ryan and Tho to talk about the Durham Report and what it tells us about the media and the FBI.

Bob and Brian Albrecht discuss rational expectations, real business cycle theory, and how Alchian cracked the military's top secrets.

The dollar became the dominant global currency not so much because of its own merits, but because of the self-destruction of the pound sterling caused by the British state and central bank.

We’re supposed to go along with Green Energy schemes—as we did with masks, school lockdowns, and vaccinations to stop covid—because our government, media, and “public interest” groups insist that we “follow the science.”

The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.

Austrian business cycle theory points out that easy money leads to malinvestments. Once easy money disappears, the crash begins. Time to clean up malinvested assets.

Austrian economics is not dry theory. It helps us make sense of our world and shows that exchange and production have a place in our moral universe.

While the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade have been well documented, people other than slave traders and slaveholders benefitted from it, with some surprising results.

While the Fed and the Biden administration try to assure Americans that their banks are safe and secure, the numbers tell a different story.