Recent Podcast Episodes

In our technocratic age, it is easy to dismiss the latest technological developments as an avenue toward freedom, but some of them still bode well for markets.

President Biden's recent call to "buy American" is doomed to failure, just like all other protectionist schemes.

Opponents of secession say secession is wrong if some people in the population don't want it and say they will be worse off. The American revolutionaries disagreed and seceded anyway.

Is the dollar now unbound, as the dominant political tool of the dominant nation? Jeff and Bob take a look at how strong the US dollar really is. 

Would red-state America be a "third world country" without support from the federal government?

Rest in peace, "technolibertarianism." There was a time when many believed tech entrepreneurs would usher in a new era of freedom. Unfortunately, the new tech elites are technocratic collaborators with the regime.

People are innovative—if government doesn't get in the way. Entrepreneurs in developing countries find alternatives for people cut off from commercial banking services.

At the heart of Keynesian business cycle theory is the so-called liquidity trap. Contra Keynes, however, economies don't falter because a sudden increase in the demand for money.

When we see real bipartisan action in Congress, it usually is for the worst.

One of the fundamental tenets of Austrian economics is the ordinal value scale. Augustine articulated the idea more than a thousand years before Carl Menger wrote his pathbreaking Principles of Economics.

In the name of "economic development," San Antonio's government is seeking to seize a thriving business near the Alamo.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

In 1991, India's political leaders moved away from socialism, embracing markets and improving the economy. But Indian elites continue to push socialism to the detriment of the people.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

Three years after the covid virus hit the world, we are just starting to take a hard look at the damage caused by the covid restrictions. The "experts" not only were wrong; they were scandalously wrong.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

The president's SOTU speech has become an annual presentation of a new set of White House lies. But official Washington believes it is worse to publicly boo false statements than to make them.

American and European political elites seem to be wanting the Russia-Ukraine war to be fought to the last Ukranian and have done nothing to bring peace. It's time for a change.