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… Read More
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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… 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… 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… 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… Read More
Ep. 1268 Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and the Making of Modern Economics
Mark Skousen joins me to discuss highlights and lowlights of the history of economic thought, and what we can learn from both. About the Guest Mark Skousen is an economist,… Read More
First Krugman, Now This
Bob Murphy and I deal with Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman every week on the Contra Krugman podcast. William Nordhaus was named one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for 2018.… Read More
Ep. 1214 How Austrian School Economists Predicted the Major Economic Crises
Mark Thornton joins me to discuss his new book — to which I contributed the foreword — on the so-called “skyscraper curse” and Austrian business cycle theory, and how economists… Read More
Libertarians Urged to Nominate Another Stuffed Shirt
I’m in Boston with the family this week, so I’m dialing back the emails. (For shame, I know!) Anyway, I keep reading respectable people telling me the Libertarian Party needs… Read More
“Say What You Will About Hitler, But…”
Until recently, the left-wing inflationist Ellen Brown used the example of Hitler’s Germany to show that Greenbacker economics really works. She was taken to task for this. She told Gary… Read More