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Our current position on debt seems to be akin to saying the only way to keep from drowning is pouring more water over the victim.

Murray Rothbard explains that anarcho-communists' longing for a preindustrial primitivism would mean starvation and death for nearly all of mankind and a grinding subsistence for the ones remaining.

Kristoffer Hansen joins the show to discuss everything about interest rates, as detailed by Rothbard in Chapter 6 of Man, Economy, and State. 

Every major scientific advance challenged the “settled science” of its day and was often denounced as pernicious and false, even dangerous.

Every economic system is a mixture of market action and state control. The Marxist strategy is to blame every ill caused by state intervention on capitalism. 

Dr. Leamer is a Professor of Economics and Statistics at UCLA who comes on the show to discuss the recent arrival of econometric analyses in medicine. 

Brett Venoitte explains how Horace Mann drew from authoritarian Prussian in designing public education in the US. 

The Supreme Court this week limited a state government's control over what is supposed to be a sovereign Indian tribe. The next step lies in limiting federal control over the tribe also. 

Tax revenue declined again in June, and new jobless claims increased by more than a million for the seventeenth week in a row.

Paul Krugman famously predicted in 1998 that the internet would prove to be no more important than the fax machine. This error proceeds straight from his lack of economic understanding.