Peter Schiff has accused the National Inflation Association, which made the “College Conspiracy” documentary I linked to last week, of engaging in a “pump-and-dump” stock scam. Bob Wenzel’s most recent post on the subject, which contains links to earlier posts and to statements by both sides, has the latest… Read More
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Ep. 2191 Biden’s Student Loan Debacle
Gene Epstein joins us to discuss the economics of the partial cancellation of college loans. Sponsor Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in the search engines? Your leads at a trickle — or nonexistent? Persist SEO can turn that all around for your business. Check… Read More
Ep. 2063 Bitcoin Fixes This
With price inflation spiking, Dan Held is here to talk Bitcoin with us. Dan is the Director of Growth Marketing at Kraken. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 2019. Prior to that, Dan was… Read More
Ep. 2041 Everyone Should Want to Abolish the Fed
Tom Mullen returns to discuss how the Federal Reserve, the institution that’s been kept off everybody’s radar and was scarcely discussed in politics until 2007 — nearly a hundred years after its creation — ought to unite even people with the most divergent ideologies. Sponsor… Read More
Ep. 1942 What’s Coming With Fiat Paper, and Bitcoin
I got to know the brilliant financial mind Larry Lepard during the 2008 Ron Paul presidential campaigns, when at great personal expense he took out full-page ads for Dr. Paul in USA Today and the New York Times. Discussed today: the inevitable inflation and collapse… Read More
Ep. 1628 Is the Coronavirus a Libertarian Moment?
Finance professor Murray Sabrin thinks so. Murray is convinced that libertarians in fact have an excellent opportunity to lay bare the problems with the state. Sponsor Skillshare is an online learning community with over 21,000 classes in design, business, technology, and more. Get two months of… Read More
Ep. 1570 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly from the American Economic Association Meeting
Mark Skousen, an author and college professor whose investment newsletter Forecasts & Strategies is celebrating its 40th year, joins me to discuss what he saw at the recent American Economic Association meeting, including some 41 sessions on gender bias and sex discrimination, along with discussion… Read More
Ep. 1480 Trump, the Federal Reserve, and the Business Cycle
Murray Sabrin, a professor of finance at Ramapo College, discusses the damage caused by the Federal Reserve, as well as the various approaches to business cycles taken by different economic schools of thought, and Trump’s demands for lower interest rates. Book Discussed Why the Federal Reserve Sucks: It Causes Inflation, Recessions, Bubbles, and Enriches the One Percent Free Resources! 1) Free… Read More
Worse Than Ever: Government Schools After 35 Years
By Lawrence M. Ludlow Part 1: The Current Status of Government Monopoly Schools This is the story of a former teacher who – after a 35-year absence – returned to the classroom to help a local high school overcome a temporary emergency. Why tell this… Read More
Ep. 1322 Smashing Fallacies in American Economic History
Professor Jeff Herbener just completed the first of two courses for my LibertyClassroom.com website on American economic history, an area where there are plenty of misconceptions and fallacies to refute. In this episode we talk about 19th-century monetary policy and bank panics, fiscal policy in an… Read More