The Human Action Podcast

Professor Per Bylund of Oklahoma State University, author of How to Think About the Economy joins Jeff and Bob to dissect how economics went so badly wrong. A discipline rooted in theory, axioms, and deduction has devolved into statistics, models, and hard science envy. Is the economics profession doing any good, or active harm? Per's new book How to Think About the Economy: Mises.org/Primer Gary North and Walter Block debate "Is it Smart to Get a PhD in Economics": Mises.org/HAP380a

Jeff and Bob break down this week's Davos WEF conference and consider whether global elites really have the mechanisms to impose their plans. Johnny Vedmore's analysis of Schwab's origins: Mises.org/HAP379a Scott Greer says America's right-want needs to stop dwelling on Schwab: Mises.org/HAP379b Schwab bragging about penetrating Cabinets: Mises.org/HAP379c

Dr. Peter Klein, professor of entrepreneurship at Baylor University and co-author of the new book Why Managers Matter, joins Jeff and Bob to explain the huge disconnect between supply and demand for labor in post-COVID America. Dr. Klein's new book Why Managers Matter: Mises.org/HAP378a

There is no real housing market in the US. Instead, an unholy trinity of Fannie/Freddie, the US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve Bank operate to distort the market at every turn and drive home prices up dramatically. Mises Institute Senior Fellow Alex Pollock, an economist and former mortgage banker, joins Jeff to describe the reality few Americans know. Alex Pollock's new book Surprised Again: The Covid Crisis and the New Market Bubble : Mises.org/HAP377a Alex Pollock on how the Fed became the world's biggest S&L: Mises.org/HAP377b

Bob and Jeff make their provocative 2023 predictions for the economy, the Fed, politics, world events, and cultural issues.

This week's show features a bare-knuckle discussion between Jeff and José Niño of "El Niño Speaks" on the biggest political, economic, and cultural events of 2022—and what they portend for 2023. You don't want to miss Jeff's unvarnished thoughts on the Left, the Right, the economy, and what is sure to be a turbulent New Year. Read José's Substack: josbcf.substack.com  

Does 2022 America still have legitimate intellectuals? Professor Paul Gottfried joins Jeff and Bob to consider the state of real and pseudo-intellectualism.

Hunter Hastings of Economics for Business joins Jeff for a thoroughgoing discussion of how monetary and fiscal policy distort capital markets and create perverse incentives for financialization rather than real production. Jeff Deist, "Does M&A benefit the economy?": Mises.org/HAP373-A Rothbard's America's Great Depression: Mises.org/AGD The Economics for Business Podcast: Mises.org/E4Bpod

Jeff and Bob break down the good, bad, and ugly behind Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter.

Jeff and Bob record a special Thanksgiving episode for Money Talk 1010 AM on what it really takes to fix the US economy.  Mark Thornton on the coming economic crisis: Mises.org/HAP371A Listen to Jeff on Money Talk 1010 every Thursday at 9:00am ET: Mises.org/MoneyTalk