Podcast

Canadian politicians tout their healthcare system as morally superior to private medicine. There is nothing moral about relegating thousands of people to death each year for lack of medical care.

Karl Marx may have been a philosopher or just someone with an opinion. He was not, however, an economist.

Decolonization is a popular academic and media buzzword. But is colonialism actually responsible for poverty in developing countries? This question deserves an honest answer.

Murray Rothbard was an elite economist, historian, and avowed enemy of the state. His legacy lives on nearly three decades after his untimely passing.

Advocates for more military spending tell us the taxpayer must pay to expand the US's nuclear arsenal.  Because of China. In truth, the US's arsenal is in no danger of not "keeping up."

Central banks usually don't admit their guilt in the destruction of money, but the Bank of England unwittingly comes clean.

Most socialists are not misguided about how to have a prosperous economy, for that is not their goal.

Jeff and Bob walk through the mechanics of how a full reserve bank could work in a truly free market based on the concepts and taxonomy of Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit.

Mark looks at the impact of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, where the government's monetary policy is manifesting itself in some interesting ways.

The latest from the world of social media is the role of "influencers." There is a perfectly good economic explanation for their popularity.