October 2022

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022. Sponsored by Sheri and Thomas Yengst.

[Chapter 5 of Per Bylund's new book How to Think about the Economy: A Primer.] Why do we produce? For the simple reason that nature doesn’t automatically satisfy all of our needs and wants. Wild animals, grains, and berries are not enough to

This is the "American dream" the Fed has given us: work more jobs and longer hours to keep paying those bills that are now growing at 8 percent per year. Original Article: "Thanks to the Fed, You'll Work More This Year

We live in strange times. The same people that vehemently defended massive deficit spending and money printing as the solution to the global economy now blame the turmoil of the UK bond and currency markets on a deficit-increasing budget. I find

I have recently written about the cultural, political, and ideological problems that contribute to the decline in higher education, but colleges also suffer from long-standing institutional shortcomings. Simply put, the term “higher education” is, in many ways, a misnomer, as the

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.  

When firms apply the principles of Austrian economics to business management, we call the result the Adaptive Entrepreneurial Method. It’s adaptive in that it is a continuous learning process, and it’s entrepreneurial in elevating customer value realization as the most

The idea of defamation as a punishable legal matter is based on the notion that people do not have free will and are not responsible for their own actions.  Original Article: "The Alex Jones Verdict Shows the Danger of Defamation Laws" This

The “new history of capitalism” (NHC) continues to receive widespread acclaim despite mounting inaccuracies. Although critical reviews have punctured adherents’ arguments many still cling to wrongheaded assumptions that exaggerate the role of slavery and cotton in powering America’s economic progress.

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022.