Podcast

It was not long ago that signs for “Help Wanted” seemed to be in every store window. However, those signs are now being replaced.

Ryan McMaken and economist Per Bylund discuss the nature of money in our paper-money world. Are Bitcoin and gold money? If not, how do they become money?  

Opinion polls and the latest electoral results are at odds with the facts as presented by mainstream media and government statistical offices. What is going on?

Ryan McMaken and Heather Carson discuss how homeschooling is a way to resist and sabotage the many ways the state centralizes power and destroys private institutions. 

Pundits have labeled piggy banks small change, irrational and wasteful, “just sitting around doing nothing.” As usual, they are wrong.

Economist Jonathan Newman joins Ryan to discuss how deficit spending and runaway debt is causing price inflation and higher interest rates. 

Is there a magic wand to solve the problem of high beef prices? Yes, actually.

Ryan and 'Crisis' magazine editor-in-chief Eric Sammons examine how many Christians pay too little attention to the true costs of war. Ryan and Eric also discuss the importance of Just War Theory. 

Americans and Cubans have been deprived of trade and travel. Who benefits?

Ryan and historian Christopher Calton take a look at why homelessness is rising and why politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom are only making it worse.