Podcast

John Maynard Keynes derided gold-based money as a "barbarous relic," yet it was gold that enabled a long regime of honest money -- and the advance of civilization.

Critics of capitalism claim that it is responsible for creating inequality in society. Yet the precapitalist societies enforced inequality in a rigid social structure.

For nearly two decades, business, academic, and political elites have spread the fiction that central banks can engineer prosperity by printing more money. Markets now are discrediting that fairy tale.

Energy production in the USA and elsewhere is in trouble because of government control. We need more energy and less regulation.

The more we understand critical race theory, the more we understand that it is not compatible with a free society.

Should there be vaccine mandates to deal with covid? Progressive authorities say one thing, but the data say another.

One hardly can imagine a better tool of social control than a digital currency. Not surprisingly, US monetary authorities are moving in that direction.

It has been a hundred years since Mises published Socialism. It is more relevant than ever.

Like the police in similar communities, the Moscow, Idaho police have long focused on petty drug offenses while more serious violent crime and property crime receives far less attention.

Does 2022 America still have legitimate intellectuals? Professor Paul Gottfried joins Jeff and Bob to consider the state of real and pseudo-intellectualism.