"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...
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How Non-Capitalists Benefit From Capitalism w/ Johan Norberg
https://youtu.be/cR981Xk7WPs Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make their own decisions about what they...
Replacing the Logic of “Workplace Democracy” With the Iron Law of Oligarchy
https://youtu.be/py1C_4ZX174 The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an "iron law"...
TGIF: Governments Create Problems; Markets Fix Them
My article "Complete Liberalism" prompted an unexpected challenge. An interlocutor, who says he owns a business and thus is not antibusiness, claimed that my article suggested that, unlike government regulators, businesses never get things wrong. Yet business failures...
Episode 613: Avoiding This Medical Nightmare w/ John Bush
59 Minutes PG-13 John Bush is an entrepreneur and one of the co-hosts of Pete's side-podcast, Unloose the Goose. John joins Pete to talk about ways to use entrepreneurship, cryptocurrency and alliances to prevent the medical tyranny that is being thrust upon the...
Episode 578: Defending And Empowering Local Businesses w/ Tobin Brogunier
64 Minutes Safe for Work Tobin Brogunier is an entrepreneur working with merchants and technology to bring Virtual Storefronts to Main Street. Pete welcomes Tobin to the show to discuss the platform he has created that will allow local businesses in any area to be...
Episode 568: The Demystification Of Cryptocurrency w/ John Bush
40 Minutes PG-13 John Bush is an entrepreneur and one of the co-hosts of Pete's side-podcast, Unloose the Goose. John joins Pete to talk about some of the basics of cryptocurrency and an upcoming online course he's offering titled, "Demystifying Crypto." Link to...
Episode 549: Answering Radigan Carter’s Objections to Decentralization w/ Per Bylund
84 Minutes PG-13 Per Bylund is a Fellow at the Mises Institute and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. Pete asked Per to come on the show to comment on audio pointed out by one of Pete's Patreon supporters of the Hidden Forces podcast...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...