Biden’s SCOTUS Moment
Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement gives the Biden Administration something they desperately need: the opportunity to control a news cycle after weeks of bad economic headlines, worse polling, and international tension. In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop
Can State Power Cancel Economic Law?
[In this introduction to his essay "Control or Economic Law," Böhm-Bawerk examines how the reality of the "mixed economy" means we must be able to understand the interplay between market action and the countless efforts to distort the market through state
Washington Still Won’t Admit the Real Cause of Price Inflation
After the Consumer Price Index surged last year to its highest level since 1982, politicians are feeling pressure from constituents to do something about it. On Monday, President Joe Biden announced $1 billion in grants, loans, and other assistance for small
Why Price Deflation Is Always Good News
Most commentators are currently preoccupied with large increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is labeled as inflation. The yearly growth rate of the CPI stood at 7.0 percent in December against 6.8 percent in November and 1.4 percent
The Fed Has No Real Plan, and Will Likely Soon Chicken Out On Rate Hikes
The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) released a new statement today purporting to outline the FOMC’s plans for the next several months. According to the committee’s press release: With inflation well above 2 percent and a strong labor market, the
Behind Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset: Part 2
Bob continues his series on Klaus Schwab, explaining the WEF’s plans for redesigning the world, and providing quotes from Schwab’s book on the fourth industrial revolution. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Part 1 of this seriesThe WEF’s bio
Behind Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset: Part 1
Bob starts a series looking into Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum and, along with Prince Charles, proponent of the “Great Reset.” Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Klaus Schwab and Prince Charles promoting the “Great Reset”The
Free Economy and Social Order
Most of us, and all of us most of the time, deal with the market economy as a definite type of economic order, a sort of "economic technique" as opposed to the socialist "technique." For this view, it is significant
How is #MarriageStrike problematic for us as a society?
A few days back #MarriageStrike took away the attention of all the netizens. This hashtag was trending all over social media as no other did. It is really intriguing to know more about the hashtag and the reason it blew
Will the Fed Pop the Everything Bubble?
The history of economic development cannot be understood without the importance of recession periods. Recessions are often the result of the excess accumulated in previous years. Creative destruction after a period of excess used to drive a stronger recovery and