Podcast Episodes

Episode 269: A Conversation with Award Winning Students, Pt. 2

Season 1 Episode 269

This week, we talk with the economics students of Mount Hebron High School who have won the state economics championship 16 times, the national championship six times, and recently won the internatio…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

Episode 268: A Conversation with Award Winning Students, Pt. 1

Season 1 Episode 268

This week, we talk with the economics students of Mount Hebron High School who have won the state economics championship 16 times, the national championship six times, and recently won the internatio…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

Episode 267: Ten Years of ObamaCare

Season 1 Episode 267

Now that a decade has passed since the Affordable Care Act reached full implementation, it’s a good time to look back at what we were promised, what we got, and what we didn’t get..

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Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Episode 266: Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and the Common Good

Season 1 Episode 266

The Catholic Church likes subsidiarity. Politicians like federalism. Economists like free markets. It turns out that, if you can adequately define “the common good,” the three - subsidiarity, federal…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Episode 265: Higher Education Fraud?

Season 1 Episode 265

Is there a massive class action suit awaiting colleges and universities that promise certain educational outcomes and don’t deliver? Colleges and universities are admitting students they know won’t s…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Episode 264: Should Cities Invest in Sports Stadiums?

Season 1 Episode 264

Politicians often argue the benefits of raising taxes to pay for sports stadiums, citing all the economic benefits that accrue from attracting major sports teams. But if there were significant econom…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Episode 263: The Fall of Amazon

Season 1 Episode 263

The life cycle of birth, maturation, death, and new life plays out in markets in the same way and for the same reasons. Entrepreneurs come up with new ideas. If customers like those ideas better than…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Episode 262: David Friedman on the Gold Standard

Season 1 Episode 262

David Friedman joins us to talk about the gold standard: why one existed at all, why we went off it, and what would happen if we reinstituted it.

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Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Episode 261: $30 trillion

Season 1 Episode 261

The federal debt recently crossed the $30 trillion mark, making the debt 50% larger than the entire US economy.

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Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Episode 260: Shortages at Home, Starvation Elsewhere

Season 1 Episode 260

Americans are so used to having goods available to them at low prices, in expansive variety, and in apparently limitless quantities that sporadic shortages are shaking up our lives. Yet, what we expe…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago