Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchResponding to Geochartalism: Did Mosler Complete Menger?
Episode 548
Bob responds to a new working paper from the Geo-chartalism project, which claims to offer a complete theory of the price level by combining insights…
10 hours ago
Robert Aro on the Fed's Reverse Repo Trick
Episode 547
Bob sits down with researcher Robert Aro to review his recent Mises.org article on why the widely anticipated post-QT crash never materialized. They …
1 week ago
Luke Gromen on the Strait of Hormuz and Supply Chain Collapse
Episode 546
Bob sits down with macro researcher Luke Gromen of Forest for the Trees to discuss the cascading supply chain consequences of a closed Strait of Horm…
1 week, 6 days ago
Bob Responds to Randall Wray on Sectoral Balances
Episode 545
After his recent Zero Hedge debate with MMT co-founder Randall Wray, Bob takes a deep dive into the sectoral balance approach. He explains why the MM…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Cantillon Effects and the Politics of Money Creation
Episode 544
This week, Bob explains Cantillon effects: the insight that new money doesn't raise all prices equally or simultaneously, but flows through the econo…
1 month ago
Can AI Solve the Socialist Calculation Problem?
Episode 543
Bob untangles two arguments that even Austrian economists sometimes conflate: Mises' calculation problem and Hayek's knowledge problem. Then, he expl…
1 month, 1 week ago
Visualizing The Boom-Bust Cycle with Roger Garrison
Episode 542
In memory of Roger Garrison, Bob walks through Garrison's famous capital-based macroeconomics diagrams, showing how they translate the Mises-Hayek th…
1 month, 1 week ago
Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter
Episode 541
In commemoration of Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday, Bob shares five “greatest hits” from Rothbard’s economics, covering deficits vs. inflation, mon…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Banning Congress, Not Markets: The Insider Trading Dilemma
Episode 540
Bob uses Trump’s call to ban congressional insider trading as a springboard to explain why, from an Austro-libertarian perspective, insider trading a…
2 months ago
Milei Defends Capitalism and Austrian Economics at the WEF
Episode 539
This week, Bob walks through Javier Milei’s 2026 address to the World Economic Forum, explaining the Austrian and neoclassical ideas behind Milei’s d…
2 months, 1 week ago