Podcast

Do Austrian theories also apply to financial markets?

Ryan and Zach talk about how the realities of expensive industrial warfare are still relevant.

In a recent symposium on Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, philosopher Matt Zwolinski takes issue with Rothbard on Murray’s views of freedom and property rights.

The decades of American and European intervention in Africa are coming to an end, and things are even worse for American interests there. Perhaps overthrowing governments and trying to dictate political outcomes wasn’t a good idea.

Despite statements from Biden and other progressives, profits in a market economy are not a form of plunder. Instead, they represent entrepreneurial gains that mostly benefit consumers.

Mainstream economists claim money has purchasing power because the government issuing the money has so declared. That makes no sense.

For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all? 

Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation. 

Unfortunately, these assaults on the First Amendment continue to find support even among people who pretend to be in support of freedom and opposed to federal power.

Despite the media definitions of the Trump trial as a “hush money trial,” the actual criminal charges are contrived and legally unprecedented. This is a show trial.