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Economist Joseph Salerno,  an expert on the Austrian School, money, and methodology, joins us to talk about what makes the Austrian School of economics different. 

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After promising to end the Ukraine war immediately, and to stay out of Middle East wars, President Trump has instead doubled down on intervening in both conflicts.

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Let's look at some of the reasons why President Trump and his supporters are so obsessed with demanding that the Federal Reserve force down interest rates even further. 

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Alex Pollock, an expert on Federal Reserve policy, joins us to talk about how the Fed has backed itself into a very bad financial corner, and there is no painless way out.

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Some non-economic arguments made by pronatalists are very good. But when it comes to economics, pronatalists often get it very wrong.

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Real estate investor and Mises Institute contributor Artis Shepherd joins Ryan to talk about how our stagnating economy is affecting multifamily housing and other commercial real estate. Banks and investors are using "extend and pretend" tactics to cover up the true state of the industry. 

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Joshua Mawhorter joins us to talk about how the fiat-money theories of Modern Monetary Theory and chartalism aren't supported by the historical facts. 

Articles and resources mentioned: 

Is It Money Because It Is Redeemed in Tax Payments? A Response to Kelton and Wray by Per Bylund. 

MMT and US History: Redefining Chartalism by Joshua Mawhorter.

MMT, Chartalism, and the Colonial Experience by Joshua Mawhorter.

How the Classical Gold Standard Fueled the Rise of the State by Ryan McMaken.

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Jonathan Newman joins Ryan McMaken to talk about the history behind the myth of "Fed independence." The Fed has never been politically independent of the US government, and it has enthusiastically helped fund the US government both in wartime and in peacetime. 

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Polish professor of political theory Łukasz Dominiak joins us to talk about how Poland embraced a market economy after the Cold War ended.  We discuss some of the factors behind Poland's rise from poverty. 

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In this lecture from the Mises Institute's recent Conference on War Revisionism, McMaken looks at how classical liberals' pro-peace foreign policy was defeated by a century of war propaganda beginning with the First World War. 

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