Recent Podcast Episodes

Job growth was only positive in October because of government jobs, funded by huge federal deficits.

Greg Penglis interviews Mark Thornton on The Action Radio Show.

When politics invades our lives, cooperation is replaced with coercion and conflict.

Mises Fellow Kristoffer Hansen joins Bob to discuss the controversy surrounding Mises' perspective on fractional reserve banking and free banking.

The sweep of history shows that there are two main dangers to liberty, one that comes from the left and the other that comes from the right.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho talk about the possibilities after next week's election.

The corporate media has no idea how little we rely on them.

Joseph Patterson interviews Mark Thornton on The Alan Nathan Show.

Tom DiLorenzo is interviewed by Thea Shoemake.

Tom DiLorenzo is interviewed by Thomas Carrigan.

Jimmy Lakey interviews Mark Thornton.

Jonathan Newman is interviewed by Kerry Lutz on the Financial Survival Network.

Rob Schilling interviews Mark Thornton.

Vegas expected Renato “Sound Money” Moicano to lose his UFC fight against Benoit Saint Denis. Instead, he won and used the opportunity to promote the work of another Austrian economist. This time, it was Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

“In 1988, Murray Rothbard wrote a great monograph called Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero. I'd like to concentrate today on the third of the qualities, Mises as a hero.”

Einstein's name is synonymous with brilliance, yet his great intelligence did not translate to logical economic thinking. Instead, Einstein embraced socialism, thinking that one could guide an economy like one guides a mathematical equation.

While the US dollar is the world's “reserve” currency—at least for now—the reckless spending and money creation policies of the US government place the dollar in peril. 

Would America’s federal government deliberately undermine recovery efforts to try to achieve its own desired political ends? Of course.

In the spirit of a new Cold War, Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea have written a new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War, which tries to fuse the foreign policies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. The result is a foreign policy Frankenstein.

Progressives claim that the state grants us our rights, and that liberty can flourish only in the presence of a powerful state. The truth runs in the opposite direction.