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Episode 189: Living That Post-COVID Life
Little by little, things appear to be getting back to normal following COVID and the lockdown. James and Ant discuss what the world will look like as…
5 years, 9 months ago
Episode 188: Crypto Coercion
Roger Ver, founder of bitcoin.com joins us this week to discuss the emergence of cryptocurrency as the answer to the problem of inflated sovereign cu…
5 years, 9 months ago
Episode 187: A (Non-)Comedy of Errors
Andrew Heaton joins us to discuss comedy, politics, and that we can’t seem to laugh at ourselves anymore because our politics have become our religio…
5 years, 9 months ago
Episode 186: Experiencing Higher Education
Our response to COVID has imposed changes across the whole economy. One of the industries that is likely to bear the lion’s share of those changes is…
5 years, 9 months ago
Episode 185: The Depressing Results of Great Depression Policies
Steve Horwitz is back with us this week to discuss the Great Depression. The story that’s commonly handed down in high school history courses doesn’t…
5 years, 10 months ago
Episode 184: Reevaluating Regulations
Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at GMU and head of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s Task Force on Consumer Financial Law joins us to discuss t…
5 years, 10 months ago
Episode 183: Economics’ Roots
For two millenia, economics was a field of philosophy. Starting in the late 1800s, economists began to employ mathematical modeling in their thinking…
5 years, 10 months ago
Episode 182: Crossing the Police Line
In past episodes, we’ve discussed problems with policing including qualified immunity and the militarization of police. In this episode, we revisit t…
5 years, 10 months ago
Episode 181: The Not So Secret Police
The Constitution leaves policing up to the states. There is no provision for a national police force. Yet, numerous federal policing bodies have emer…
5 years, 10 months ago
Episode 180: It’s a Conspiracy, Man!
Conspiracy theories arise in part from our penchant for seeking patterns in random events and in part from our need to feel in control - to be able t…
5 years, 11 months ago