Bureaucracy and Regulation

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023.

In the global Ponzi scheme, thin air and deceit substitute for sound money. As hedge-fund manager Mitch Feierstein wrote in Planet Ponzi, “You don’t solve a Ponzi scheme; you end it.”

Being large doesn't make a country wealthy, nor does being small shrink a country's economy.

Can a government regulatory system be reformed? In a word, no. The free market is always the best regulator of quality and safety.

Banker and financial expert Caitlin Long believes that fractional reserve banking is closer than ever to collapse, and she has a 100 percent reserve banking solution in progress.

The East German secret police, the Stasi, developed the art of mass surveillance using pre-digital  methods. Modern tech now makes the job a lot easier. 

While progressives blame climate change for the deadly Lahaina fire, government created the conditions for the blaze and then helped set it.

The usual answer is that secondhand smoke is bad. But if value is subjective, perhaps secondhand smoke also can be seen as a public good.

Ryan McMaken joins Bob to discuss the recent US Women's World Cup elimination, and to dispel the myth that markets are discriminatory.

Many conservatives, in trying to steer the USA away from "wokeism," fail to understand that their “national greatness” schemes are just as harmful.