Recent Podcast Episodes

When it comes to your local police, there is no shopping around, there is no customer service, and there is no choice, writes Jeff Deist.

Jeff Deist and Marc J. Victor discuss what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri, and our disappearing legal rights.

An economy cannot be successfully planned with computers and technicians. Mises and Hayek proved this decades ago, writes Nicolás Cachanosky.

The Fed and the Treasury are betting on the fact that the dollar will remain the world’s reserve currency forever, and that the US can inflate with

Dating someone can come with a very high opportunity cost and can lead to great emotional distress and more, writes Julian Adorney.

If the payoff is high enough, universities are happy to award degrees based on political connections, writes Predrag Rajšic.

It is now fashionable in some intellectual Catholic circles to disparage free markets at every turn, but this requires the critics to ignore the co

Politicians tell us that tax cuts aren’t necessary for economic growth.

Low interest rates combined with high-risk fractional reserve banking creates a powder keg on which we’re sitting today, writes Frank Hollenbeck.

Many still blame “deregulation” for the financial disaster that was caused by an intricate web of federal laws and regulations, writes Dale Steinre

Jeff Deist and David Gordon discuss Murray N. Rothbard's life from an insider's perspective.

The Argentine government has a habit of spending without restraint and then trying to cheat its creditors.

Hollywood has a long history of joining forces with the US government.

War has been at the heart of much pro-government ideology, and remains so today, writes Lew Rockwell.

With the failure of central planning, many economists see government as an entrepreneurial institution that fosters efficiency and economic growth,

Booms and busts are brewing in the real economy, but computers that can quickly solve math problems won’t tell you much about how business cycles w

The First World War began one hundred years ago, and it was a total disaster for Europe.

“Progressives” throughout history repeatedly show a fondness for social engineering and state control, writes Andrew Syrios.

The corn, sugar, and ethanol industries in the US are all part of a complex system of government subsidies and other favors, writes Dave Albin.