The Fed

With each iteration of the banking crisis, the Federal Reserve System and federal regulators gain in power and authority. Maybe the banking crisis isn’t an accident.

What is the Cincinnatian problem? How to end vast emergency interventions whose day has passed but have become established and advantageous to their constituencies and have increased the power the central bankers enjoy.

Ryan McMaken joins to discuss both the damage done to the economy by runaway government spending, as well as how Federal Reserve policy has incentivized consumption and punished savings, which has resulted in record-high credit card debt.

While the faux debt ceiling drama rages in Washington, DC, governments worldwide are defaulting on their debt via inflation.

The Mises Institute's Executive Editor Ryan McMaken joins Bob to discuss his latest article, in which Ryan spells out the state of the M2 money supply and possible implications for consumer prices and an impending recession.

Rental prices are falling as the markets adjust to new realities. The Austrian business cycle theory explains why this is happening.

The latest rage in macroceonomics is modern monetary theory, whose adherents invariably resort to the motte-and-bailey fallacy. Advocating inflation is never a good idea.

Our political and cultural elites have gaslighted us on inflation for years. To learn the truth, read the Austrians.

Patrick Newman joins Bob to discuss a recent tweet from Stephanie Kelton, which argued that the government's "red ink makes our black ink possible."

Ryan and Robert Aro take a look at the Fed's unconvincing explanation of why it has chickened out on interest rate hikes