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The Problem with the "Robber Baron" Narrative
We're now hearing many calls for more antitrust legislation applied to Big Tech because these firms are allegedly monopolies. But old-fashioned antitrust was a…
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Economists and Psychologists Are Weaponizing Psychology and the Idea of "Rationality"
Behavioral economists and psychologists define as irrational anything that doesn't fit into a narrow model of behavior. Anything "irrational"—like buying the…
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Covid in Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado: How 3 States Did Lockdowns
Tho Bishop and Zachary Yost join Ryan McMaken to discuss covid politics in three states, and whether anyone is paying any attention to social distancing rules…
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Is Math Racist? That Does Not Compute
Rather than representing “white supremacy,” the evolution of mathematics has been a globe-, race-, and culture-spanning collaboration of advancements, an…
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The Fight over Economics Is a Fight over Culture
Explaining good economic theory is about explaining how the other side is ripping you off. Original Article: "The Fight over Economics Is a Fight over Culture"…
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Pennsylvanians May Amend Constitution to Stop Endless Lockdowns
Not only will these amendments reduce the abuse of emergency declarations, but they will also help to decentralize power within Pennsylvania. While COVID-19…
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State-Mandated Vaccines Are a Moral Minefield
Forcing one person to take medication or vaccines for the benefit of another person is directly opposed to basic notions of self-ownership and human rights…
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Elise Amez-Droz: Those Treacherous "Essential" and "Nonessential" Labels
Our guest is Elise Amez-Droz, program manager for the Open Health program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she also manages the health…
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How Markets Turn Lousy Products into Great Ones
Centrally planned economies often stick with terrible ideas for many years. But markets can take bad products, learn from them, and turn them into great…
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The NBA's National Anthem Mandate: Another Political Ploy from Pro Sports
The controversy over Mark Cuban and the national anthem reminds us the NBA and the NFL have spent the last few decades relying on the national anthem as a…
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How Not to Argue against the Minimum Wage
There are plenty of sound reasons to oppose government minimum wage laws, but there is one objection making the rounds that is based on bad economics and…
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Why No State Needs Thousands of Nuclear Warheads
The claim that the US needs an immense and varied nuclear arsenal "does serve one purpose: it keeps military budgets wondrously high." Original Article: "Why…
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Dr. Patrick Newman on Cronyism in America
Professor Patrick Newman, known for his incredible work editing Murray Rothbard's The Progressive Era and Conceived in Liberty, just finished a staggering new…
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Jeff Deist on the Scapegoating of Florida
Jeff Deist and David Gornoski comment on the latest news such as the fiasco that is Trump’s impeachment, the effort to turn Trump voters into deplorable…
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Jesús Huerta de Soto’s Six Stages of the Austrian Business Cycle: Which Stage Are We in Now?
An unheralded work on the Austrian business cycle that rivals the work of the greats is Jesús Huerta de Soto’s Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles, which…
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Understanding Minimum Wage Mandates: Empirical Studies Aren't Enough
It is only through the increase in capital goods, i.e., through the enhancement and the expansion of the infrastructure, that labor can become more productive…
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How Wall Street Became an Enemy of Free Markets
After decades of financialization and government favors, Wall Street now has little to do with free, functioning markets anymore and has largely become an…
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State Legislators Are Considering a Host of New Sound-Money Reforms
More state lawmakers than ever are introducing sound money legislation in the opening days of the 2021 legislative session. Original Article: "State…
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The Burmese Mess Demonstrates the Incoherence of America's Crusades for Democracy
The Biden administration has threatened to intervene in Burma to defend "democracy" which really just means putting back into power a woman who is known to…
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The Trump Political Show Trial
Trump would do well to ignore the Senate proceedings. There is no reason to participate in a show trial. Original Article: "The Trump Political Show Trial"…
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Gold Could Offer a Way Out of Switzerland's Failing Inflationist Experiment
The Swiss state should end antigold regulations, end negative interest rates, and return to zero rates on bank reserves. These are small steps on their own…
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How the Progressives Conquered Corporate America
The concern over concentrated influence of corporate special interests is valid, but not because corporate special interests will prevent economic regulation…
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Incitement Is Not a Real Crime
Laws against incitement—much like defamation laws—are direct attacks on basic human rights and the freedom of speech. Both place nonviolent people in legal…
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Title IX Will Become a Vehicle of More Injustice
President Joe Biden has vowed to put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s Title IX regulations and return to Obama-era ones at universities. If this…
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A Penchant for Controlling Others
These regulations have a clear message: "You don't know what is good for you so you must be forced to do what the government thinks is good for you." Original…
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The GameStop Saga Unravels Stakeholder Theory
Suddenly the champions of stakeholder theory, like the predictably despicable Washington Post, find themselves singing a new tune about vulture capitalists…
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Biden Seeks to Finish off Struggling Business Owners
If business owners were hoping to catch a break in 2021 after having been completely victimized by government lockdown procedures and left-wing rioting, they…
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Jeff Deist on the GameStop Saga
Jeff Deist joins David Gornoski to talk about the GameStop Wall Street Saga. He highlights how the media narrative seeks to manipulate the masses to view…
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Rothbard's Case Against the Fed
Dr. Mark Thornton joins the show to discuss what might just be Murray Rothbard's best book on money and banking: The Case Against the Fed. Written not long…
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US States Are Seizing More Power in the Name of "Deregulating" Housing
Claiming they are "deregulating" housing, some California politicians want to make it illegal for private homeowners associations to restrict the construction…
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Digital Currencies Are Changing the Money Landscape
From the dollar to bitcoin to Facebook's Diem, private monies and quasi monies are making the monetary landscape a lot more complicated. Original Article…
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In Washington, Fake News Is Everywhere
We're supposed to believe that with Trump gone, political discourse will now be more honest and accurate. The reality is the Washington establishment is built…
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Pennsylvania's Lockdown Rules Were Arbitrary, Inconsistent, and Political
Surprise! An audit of Pennsylvania's covid lockdowns reveals the process lacked any legal consistency or transparency. Yet Pennsylvania's health bureaucrats…
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Democrats Are Poised for a Federal Takeover of Elections in America
In the United States, one can't so much as drive down the street or purchase cough syrup without government-issued identification. Yet federal courts consider…
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The Dollar's Reserve Currency Status Won't Last Forever
Americans have benefited mightily by holding and trading with the world’s reserve currency, though most people haven’t given it a thought. No one remembers…
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Reminder: The Feds Control a Gargantuan Amount of Coastline Real Estate
One point to make here is that there is over 70 percent more submerged land in the US than the total amount of dry land in this country. That is, the federal…
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What to Expect from Bidenomics
In order to prevent the economy sinking into a lasting state of stagnation, what is required is to reduce both government spending and government regulation…
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Terence Kealey on the Myths of Public Funding of Science
Our guest today is Terence Kealey, Professor Emeritus of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as Vice…
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Why the Utes Opposed Biden's Plans to Limit Oil Drilling
This week's clash over federal attempts to control tribal drilling rights highlights the importance of tribal sovereignty in limiting federal power. Original…
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Compared to Europe and China, America Is Still a Safe Bet
There's a lot of excessive optimism about the economy during the next four years in America. However, the US still comes out on top when compared to Europe and…
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In a Paranoid Nation, "Treason" Is Everywhere
In a free society, peaceful citizens deserve the legal benefit of the doubt. In an age where government agents have endlessly intruded onto people’s land and…
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Biden Nominee Rachel Levine Was a Disaster in Pennsylvania. Now She's Headed to Washington.
Biden’s pick for assistant secretary of health forced nursing homes to accept patients with covid and wants to ration healthcare based on social justice…
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Don't Worry, "the Economists" Have Everything under Control
At Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearing, former Fed chair and President Biden’s pick as US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen claimed to have an appreciation for…
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How to Join the Alt-Tech Exodus
So, you've heard that big tech companies have transcended the niggling free market and reached the lofty heights of partisan politics—and act accordingly…
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Rothbard's America's Great Depression
Professor Jonathan Newman joins the show for a look at America's Great Depression, Rothbard's classic explanation of a terrible period in US history. This book…
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When Fascism Comes, It Will Be Wearing a Mask
Almost immediately after his inauguration, President Joe Biden began creating new government dictates via executive orders. Many of these executive orders…
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What Biden Has Planned for Us
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss some of the new policies the Biden administration wants to inflict on us, on topics ranging from Bitcoin to foreign policy…
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Why Americans Abandoned Smuggling in Favor of Lobbying and Welfare
Colonial America was a society of smugglers and scofflaws who regarded government regulations as worthy of contempt. Twenty-first century America is quite…
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Yet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don't Work
"We find no clear, significant beneficial effect of [lockdowns] on case growth in any country….In none of the 8 countries and in none out of the 16 comparisons…
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Is Gold Money?
A store of value is not necessarily a medium of exchange, and in our current fiat money system, gold is not money. But it has most of the desirable properties…
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With Trump out of the Way, Suddenly We're Hearing Good News about Covid
With Donald Trump safely out of the way, it is now safe for politicians and their friends in the media to begin scaling back their panicked hysteria over…
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"Victim-Centered" Justice Is a Threat to Due Process
A guilty-until-proven-innocent mentality is winning at many colleges where a “believe the women” ideology dominates. Now these trends are making inroads into…
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The Myths behind the "Capitalism Is Racist" Claim
Both theory and the empirical research shows a competitive marketplace is incongruous with racism, but the Left insists capitalism is "inherently" racist…
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Trump's Potential Legacy: 50 Million+ Enemies of the State
Should skepticism of the 2020 election, fueled by a new administration's actions, finally convince 50+ million Trump supporters that the barbarians in the…
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Time Preference, Interest Rates, and Stagflation
As a result of past reckless fiscal and monetary policies the pool of real wealth could be declining. If so, stagflation will result. Original Article: "Time…
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Why Governments Want More Centralization—and Less Federalism
America’s founders did not envision the federal government as the domineering senior partner in almost everything. What was once best described as “sovereign…
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Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign Policy, Disunity on Domestic Policy
Expect opponents of secession and decentralization to start claiming that neither option is acceptable because any big change to the status quo could endanger…
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Scott Horton on His New Book Enough Already
Scott Horton of antiwar.com and the Libertarian Institute has a new book chronicling 20 years of America's "War on Terror." Enough Already is a compelling…
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The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence
It’s hard to be optimistic about a Biden administration with so many hyperinterventionist Obama retreads. Get ready for new wars and "regime change"…
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Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It
The power to incinerate a billion or more human beings over morning coffee remains in the power of the president. This morning Biden supporters on Twitter were…