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Episode 268: Beef Prices and Corporate Greed
Episode 271
The ‘Greedflation’ line is back, only it isn’t coming from Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Joe Biden. With beef prices up nearly +13 percent over the last year, many are wondering why, and many …
Published on 9 hours ago
Episode 267: Solving Housing Affordability by Making It Worse
Episode 270
David devotes this week’s Capital Record to the folly of the “game-changing” idea of a 50-year mortgage. He stands within first principles by allowing risk takers to freely transact, but points out t…
Published on 2 days, 9 hours ago
Episode 266: What Tucker, Heritage, and Nick Fuentes Have to Do with Capital Record
Episode 269
The “conservative” world lives in interesting times, navigating on one hand the challenges of being a movement based on ideas and then on the other hand the personalities and frustrations that have r…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
Episode 256: Sports Betting in a Free and Virtuous Society
Episode 268
The NBA world was rocked last week as a current head coach and two players were arrested in a major FBI investigation. The entire matter has led to great consternation over the world of sports bettin…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 264: Replacing Work with Screen Time Is Not New
Episode 267
The pro-work message has found a resurgence, but it has hardly won the war. It is not merely up against pop psychologists and a wide array of confused thought leaders, but the allure of algorithmic s…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Episode 263: Two Dangerous Messages on Philanthropy
Episode 266
David is inspired today by a recent WSJ op-ed from the widow of Apple founder, Steve Jobs, arguing that too many philanthropists are using their donations for control rather than impact. David takes …
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 262: Josh Hawley’s Anti-Worker Marxist Screed
Episode 265
It feels that New Right Republicans are sometimes trying to out-socialist Bernie Sanders, and in bemoaning the extraordinary results of Amazon in building opportunity for pay and wealth for its workf…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 261: New Japanese Prime Minister Sounds Full Time to Me”
Episode 264
Sanae Takaichi is not just set to be the first female prime minister of Japan -- and someone whose childhood hero was the legendary Margaret Thatcher. She also launched her global claim to fame by sa…
Published on 1 month ago
Episode 260: Did the Financial Crisis Make Socialism Great Again?
Episode 263
As New York City prepares to elect Mamdani as mayor and young people across college campuses tout the miseries of “capitalism,” is the financial crisis of 2008 to blame for a paradigm shift in public…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 259: AI and the Challenges for all Free Marketeers
Episode 262
The artificial intelligence moment is a perfect opportunity for free marketeers to defend market innovations and technological progress, but also a challenging moment to question the role of the stat…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago