Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCalifornia’s Billionaire Tax and State-to-State Flight
Episode 538
Bob lays out California’s proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires, using it to explain why taxes on wealth are especially destructive, how different t…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dr. Keith Smith on the Health Insurance Cartel
Episode 537
Bob talks with Dr. Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma about how posting cash prices, walking away from government money, and working with …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Is Bitcoin Fiat Money?
Episode 536
Bob applies Mises’ taxonomy of money and the regression theorem to Bitcoin, asking whether it should be classified as commodity or fiat money and whe…
3 months ago
Gold Exports, Trade Deficits, and Tariffs
Episode 535
Bob responds to James Rickards’ recent tweet on record U.S. gold exports driving an improved trade balance, walking through the official data on non-…
3 months, 1 week ago
Billionaires, Workers, and the Exploitation Theory
Episode 534
Bob revisits Böhm-Bawerk’s critique of the exploitation theory of interest to answer modern claims that billionaires like Elon Musk must have “stolen…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dr. Peter Klein on International Law and “Might Makes Right”
Episode 533
Bob talks with Dr. Peter Klein about the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela and the social-media backlash against “international law,” using it as a …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics
Episode 532
This week, Bob talks with macroeconomist Roger Farmer—who places himself “between Keynes and Hayek”—about how twentieth-century macroeconomics evolve…
4 months ago
Three Economic Fallacies: Holidays, Billionaires, and WWII
Episode 531
Bob uses three recent controversies–Richard Murphy’s “Christmas all year” claim, Elon Musk’s net worth, and Ron DeSantis on the Great Depression–to c…
4 months ago
Eric Weinstein’s Challenge to Mainstream Mathematical Economics
Episode 530
Bob uses clips from his recent interview with Eric Weinstein to explain why Weinstein thinks gauge theory can fix how economists measure the cost of …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Intra-Austrian Debate over Milei and the Central Bank
Episode 529
This week, Bob walks through two related debates: Hoppe’s criticism of Argentina's President Milei for not immediately closing Argentina’s central ba…
4 months, 3 weeks ago