Recent Podcast Episodes

Do we have a right to sunlight? How do we assert those rights? Murray Rothbard provides some answers.

Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein joins Bob to walk through the shocking and hilarious moves by Biden officials to downplay recent allegations of corruption.

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Tho to discuss the larger costs of Fed policy and how official government measures can be gamed with techniques such as "shrinkflation."

Tho Bishop and Connor Mortell discuss common energy policy narratives.

Michael and Walter Block discuss the Ukrainian conflict, reparations, immigration, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

How can a bank “create money out of thin air”? We must enter the magical kingdom of “fractional-reserve banking,” where deposits are turned into loans, loans are turned into money, and so on, to find out.

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.

Ideologues seldom give way to the facts.

It's fitting that the G7 recently met in Hiroshima because the policies they are following are blowing up the world economy.

Patrick Deneen writes that the nonaggression principle promotes a liberalism that is harmful to society, as evidenced by John Stuart Mill's idea of the tyranny of public opinion.

Argentina is one of the world's poster children for hyperinflation. Unfortunately, monetary reforms aren't working because the authorities are not serious about having a sound currency.

The problem here not that the central bank is "setting" the "wrong" interest rate. The problem is the Fed has long been relentlessly forcing down interest rates to satisfy various politically determined "needs."

On this week's episode, Mark summarizes some problems with taxpayer-subsidized EVs.

Rent control is all the rage with progressives, with several states and localities trying to impose it. However, when people have their property effectively—and legally—stolen, there are long-term consequences.

After 1820, growing numbers of propertyless squatters were voters, and this was an opportunity for politicians to offer cheap land in exchange for loyalty to the Democratic Party.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation supposedly protects people from government data abuse. In reality, it empowers governments.

MMT champion Warren Mosler claims that Fed rate hikes lead to larger government interest expenses and hence support economic growth and inflation. Bob presents both theoretical and empirical evidence against Mosler's claims.

Socialists like Bernie Sanders have decried the possible US government debt default. Marx and Lenin would have vociferously disagreed.

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.

South Africa is suffering from rolling blackouts and other power outages. These could be avoided if the government would permit competition in electricity markets.