Politics
Issues of immigration are complex. The current system of open borders, detention and expanding access to welfare is destructive to our body politic. We...
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For anyone who imagines that the US gold hoard might be used to pay off some significant portion of the national debt, this is...
The world‘s trading systems are broken, thanks to fiat currencies and the reckless deficit spending by the US Government. There is a way out;...
Recorded in Tampa, Florida, on February 22, 2025.
Issues of immigration are complex. The current system of open borders, detention and expanding access to welfare is destructive to our body politic. We...
Economic laws represent the real world. They are not ideologies or objects of worship. These laws are not the product of an ideological wish...
Economic mythology said governments must regulate markets to prevent monopolies. In reality, it is the government regulation itself that creates monopolies, which do not...
The Washington political establishment’s uniform condemnation of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump does not square with the apocalyptic rhetoric they have used to...
Prompted by a listener request, Bob gives the standard economic analysis of tariffs and other types of taxes.
Paul Krugman once claimed that inflation was necessary for relative income equality. The truth is that inflation, by creating winners and losers, increases and...
The great train wreck seems to be happening. Mark Thornton shares his latest guesses and outlook.
By appealing to the self-interest of buyers and sellers, capitalism foils attempts by lawmakers to create racially constructed limits on voluntary exchange. Capitalism undermines...
Critics of capitalism claim that private enterprise gives workers the unhappy choice of either working difficult, low-paying jobs or outright starving. The claim is...
Canadian bankruptcy filings jumped 40% last year, while CIBC reports nearly half of Canadians have zero emergency savings.