Recent Podcast Episodes

We must first build institutions that can replace the state. Institutions like families, churches, and schools.

Storms like Helene and Milton ought to drive us to recommit to and expand the very institutions that have made natural disasters more survivable for so many.

September's job numbers were driven by big increases in government jobs and part-time work.

The Fed is desperate for you to think that “this time is different.” Unfortunately, Powell can’t seem to come up with explanation of why that is the case.

Many proponents of free markets have tried to cast aside the name “capitalism” as a descriptor of the market system. They should take caution before doing so.

After Trump narrowly escaped another assassination attempt, the establishment seems uninterested in the motives of the would-be shooter. Perhaps that’s because he’s echoing the same simplistic narratives about the Ukraine war and Trump that they demand we all believe.

The political zeitgeist is to embrace protectionism, leading some who support free trade to embrace open borders. However, as Murray Rothbard explained, people and societies are complex entities and what may work for trade does not work for open immigration.

Banking systems around the world have huge effects on our lives, yet few people understand how banks work. Worse yet, even fewer understand the malign powers of central banks and how this system undermines economies. Thus, it is important to demystify these systems.

The more things change, the more they remain the same. In our present age of inflation, we are reminded of how Diocletian and other Roman authorities ordered price controls and other measures to hold down prices. None of these edicts were successful in bringing down prices.

This year's presidential election is presented in stark terms of right and left, Trump on the right and Harris on the left. However, it is more realistic to say that both candidates are to the left of where electoral politics was located just a couple decades ago.

The Fed’s specialty is propaganda through data, with a long record of failure. This is by design. Their communication tools must work in overtime, particularly in the face of a decision like this, to avoid “spooking markets”, though this veneer is easy to see through.

The only critical thinking in modern academia that stands out, is criticisms of capitalism—real and imagined.

Paul Cwik revisits the podcast to explain his new book, which aims to simplify ABCT for economics students and professors.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Patrick Newman.

The two-percent price inflation target is just a political slogan, and the Fed has many ways of ignoring its supposed two-percent target.

The Mises Institute’s new documentary provides a look at how the Federal Reserve uses its expanding power to damage our economy, increase inequality, and to impoverish ordinary Americans.

Wanjiru Njoya tells Charles Malet how she sees a truly free market as the route by which all societies are improved.

The true aim of our political system is to transfer wealth to the government and the politically-connected.

Keith Weinhold interviews Tom DiLorenzo on the Get Rich Education podcast.

Tom Luongo explains the different factions among bankers, including rivalries between New York and San Francisco, and the US versus Europe.