Recent Podcast Episodes

Jeff and Bob break down this week's Davos WEF conference and consider whether global elites really have the mechanisms to impose their plans.

It's been more than 150 years since most state boundaries were drawn in the US. Since then, demographic and political realities have changed enormously. The boundaries should change too. 

Tho Bishop and Ryan McMaken celebrate World Economic Forum week.

Does the regulatory system help guarantee safe and effective drugs? Does the system protect drug consumers? Court cases tell us otherwise.

Socialists don't just want to take your property; they also are demanding control of your children and loved ones.

The fiat monetary system is slowly breaking down, taking the economy with it.

Keynesian economists fantasize that a market economy cannot "gain traction" without "stimulus" schemes from the government. In the end, the only thing stimulated are inflation and recession.

Progressives claim that poor nations are that way because wealthy nations exploit them through the capitalist system. Cultural institutions, it turns out, are the most important indicators of wealth and poverty.

John McWhorter takes on the present infatuation with wokeness and shows the real harm it is doing to our social fabric.

Unfortunately, when governments all over the world decided to “spend now and deal with the consequences later” in 2020, they also sowed the seeds of a 2008-style problem.

Relatively free trade and capital mobilization have greatly raised living standards in recent years. Yet those that call themselves globalists are less interested in trade than in unipolar political power, pushing violent, disastrous schemes.

Federal protectionism and bailouts makes it easier for US airlines to survive terrible service, such as mass cancellations or when Southwest imposed a private mask mandate and threw families off flights.

Americans typically are told that private enterprise wastes resources while government preserves them. Economic truths turn that canard upside down.

Central bankers follow inflation "target" in their pursuit of "price stability." Not surprisingly, they usually miss their targets -- quite badly -- and we now are living one of those moments.

Because police protection of students is inadequate, Temple University of Philadelphia has hired private police to help keep students safer from crime.

Dr. Peter Klein joins Jeff and Bob to explain the huge disconnect between supply and demand for labor in post-COVID America.

Despite worries that foreign "competitors" will surpass economic production in the United States, innovation and entrepreneurship are still important here. For now.

While behavioral economics claims to be an effective way of measuring individual economic behavior, it actually sets back authentic economic analysis.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop call for breaking up the US.

While behavioral economics claims to be an effective way of measuring individual economic behavior, it actually sets back authentic economic analysis.