The economics discipline has devolved into statistics, models, and hard science envy. Is the profession doing any good, or active harm? Per Bylund joins Jeff and Bob to discuss.
The Human Action Podcast
The Human Action Podcast features in-depth interviews on current topics in economics through an Austro libertarian lens.
Jeff and Bob break down this week's Davos WEF conference and consider whether global elites really have the mechanisms to impose their plans.
Dr. Peter Klein joins Jeff and Bob to explain the huge disconnect between supply and demand for labor in post-COVID America.
Alex Pollock joins Jeff to describe the reality of the housing market that few Americans know
Bob and Jeff make their provocative 2023 predictions for the economy, the Fed, politics, world events, and cultural issues.
You don't want to miss Jeff's unvarnished thoughts on the Left, the Right, the economy, and what is sure to be a turbulent New Year.
Does 2022 America still have legitimate intellectuals? Professor Paul Gottfried joins Jeff and Bob to consider the state of real and pseudo-intellectualism.
Hunter Hastings joins Jeff for a thoroughgoing discussion of how monetary and fiscal policy distort capital markets and create perverse incentives for financialization rather than real production.
Jeff and Bob break down the good, bad, and ugly behind Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter.
Jeff and Bob record a special Thanksgiving on what it really takes to fix the US economy.
Jeff and Bob discuss whether the FTX scandal will be used to justify new "crypto" regulations or even the creation of a central bank digital currency.
Daniel McCarthy joins Jeff and Bob to consider the deep unseriousness of American politics and electorate.
Jeff joins Chris Casey of WindRock Wealth Management for a deep analysis of next week's punishing midterm elections.
Jeff and Bob take a hard look at the linguistic battlefield and the corruption of language as an institution.
Jeff explains how we need more than intellectual appeal to advance the cause of liberty—we need an appeal to beauty.
Bob and Jeff discuss the nauseating elevation of former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to Nobel Prize winner.
Toby Baxendale joins Bob to discuss the tools central banks and governments will use to enact "financial repression."
Daniel McAdams joins Jeff and Bob to discuss the economic and political ramifications of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline sabotage.
Daniel McCarthy joins Jeff to consider the state of modern conservatism, modern libertarianism, and whether they can or cannot find common ground.
With Queen Elizabeth II lying in state at Westminster Hall, hereditary monarchies are under attack as archaic & absurd. Has mass democracy in the West done any better?