Recent Podcast Episodes

We are hearing calls both from right and left for an amicable national divorce. In truth, the states were never "hitched" in the first place, at least not by any plausible definition of marriage.

Despite all of the supposed safeguards to prevent bank failures, banks still fail. Perhaps the so-called safeguards are causing much of the trouble.

Mark discusses something bigger than the Disney layoffs: the Wall Street Journal's frontpage article on investing in gold.

As markets settle down after the last set of bank failures, political elites claim the crisis is behind us. But it is not over, not by a long shot.

Are NASA contracts propping up the private space industry? Or are Government regulations stifling the private space race?

Although equality and "equity" are modern buzzwords, the only way to reach such a social nirvana is through violent means. Do we really want to go there?

Featuring Michael Rectenwald at the Mises Institute's recent event in Birmingham, Alabama dedicated to the global threat of "The Great Reset".

Contrary to Krugman, DeSantis and others warning about a CBDC aren’t being paranoid: they are simply drawing the obvious conclusions from history.

Ryan McMaken and Dr. Mark Thornton cover the state of the dollar and why employers are laying off their highest paid workers.

Understanding what turns an ordinary currency into a global reserve currency can help us understand how the dollar could go into decline and give way to competing currencies.

Most Western historians claim that World War I came about because of aggression from Germany and Austria-Hungary. However, Great Britain and its ANZAC allies were not innocent bystanders.

Featuring Will Blakely, Bryan Dawson, Allen Mendenhall, and Michael Rectenwald.

Featuring Jonathan Newman at the Mises Institute's recent event in Birmingham, Alabama dedicated to the global threat of "The Great Reset".

Low rates of military reenlistment in the USA are spun as a near crisis. Perhaps this situation should make us more optimistic about our future.

Featuring Allen Mendenhall at the Mises Institute's recent event in Birmingham, Alabama dedicated to the global threat of "The Great Reset".

Sen. Lindsey Graham recently called for US military intervention in Mexico to fight the drug cartels. Someone needs to remind him that Mexico is a sovereign country.

When the Boeing 737 MAX had two crashes, the usual suspects called for more regulation. It turns out that the crashes were due more to regulatory failure than anything else.

A generation ago, the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR collapsed. Today, US monetary authorities are bringing down our own country.

The government wants to make gas cars a lot more expensive. But electric vehicles are so expensive in the longer term that gas cars still look like a better deal.

Politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are demanding that successful entrepreneurs be taxed into oblivion. The real parasites are the politicians who destroy wealth instead of creating it.