U.S. Economy

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

Mark Thornton appears on Freedom Works! with Paul Molloy.

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

Ralph Raico presents the fundamental political problem of the twentieth century, which remains our fundamental political problem today: How can war—given its appalling destruction—be avoided?

The central pillar of the Keynesian system is that spending drives the economy, so savings on a large scale will push the economy into recession. As Austrians know, that narrative is entirely false and fails to accurately explain how the economy works.

Tom DiLorenzo appears on the Tom Woods Show.

As people from Generation X move toward retirement, they are starting to understand that Social Security really is in crisis and many public pension plans are underfunded. Furthermore, they find that inflation is eating through their retirement savings. This won‘t end well.

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

Tom DiLorenzo is interviewed by Rob Schilling.

A modern misconception of antebellum slavery is that it “built the country.” Actually, the institution of slavery, economically speaking, was a deadweight loss to the US economy.