Recent Podcast Episodes

Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers.

Carter’s administration was assembled almost entirely from one list.

“Mr. Rockefeller”—discovered by McCloy, paid by Nelson.

The elite escalated the war—and then split over it.

The Kennedy cabinet, assembled on Robert Lovett’s advice.

234,000 acres of United Fruit land and a CIA invasion.
 

A coalition war: Morgan got Europe, Rockefeller got Asia.

A defunct dinner club, merged into a foreign policy establishment.

Cecil Rhodes’s secret society and its American recruits.

The war could not have been financed under the old gold standard.

 A shaky railroad empire—and then a war that rescued it.

Who actually collected the $40 million for the Panama Canal?

The “Open Door” was a railroad concession with a slogan attached.

Grover Cleveland’s cabinet read like a Morgan client list.

Manufacturers can choose the free market. Bankers rarely do.

Rothbard’s method: no abstract “forces,” only individual actors.

Why both left and right flinch from naming the corporate state.

The argument for AI solving inflation runs through productivity: better technology lowers costs, so prices fall. Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute takes that apart. Technology genuinely made computers and screens and phones cheaper, and it did nothing at all for healthcare, education or insurance. What changed was the balance of prices, not the level of them. He also argues the current buildout fits the classic pattern of a credit-driven cycle almost feature for feature, and explains why higher rates would land on financial markets long before they touched consumer demand.

The neoliberal establishment has done much to define our highly-interventionist, inflationary, and crony system as true free-market capitalism. They shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that people are turning against it.

The term that best describes the CEO of the "private" company Flock is "parasite" or "plutocrat" or "welfare queen" because his "business model" is simply finding ways to exploit the taxpayers.