Podcast

With a record-height tower and a flooded credit system: 2026 may be when the curse returns. 

When it comes to the great political economist John C. Calhoun, most people love him or hate him. In this episode, economic historian Patrick Newman joins us to take a more balanced look at Calhoun, his origins as a War Hawk and nationalist, and why he was never a true Jeffersonian.

Hyperinflation isn’t ancient history. It’s a recurring policy failure with war-level damage.

Vivek Ramaswamy promotes a fictional version of American history in which a handful of people created America and that culture and religion are canceled out by an ideological "creed." In truth, the American nation and the American state are two different things. 

Black swans don’t cause crashes: they reveal them. Mark Thornton shows how easy money breeds “sequestered capital” in opaque assets, priming the next bust.

Newly released jobs data this month shows that the jobs narrative from the media was based on bogus numbers.

Red + green = brown. Mark Thornton shows how towering debt and easy money set the stage for hyperinflation.

Hoppe is an exacting analyst of what works, not an architect of upheaval.

San Francisco politicians have made it so difficult to build new housing that a black market for apartments has emerged. 

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