In this episode Mike Van Winkle discusses voting behavior with Bryan Caplan who is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a scholar at the Mercatus Center. He is author of Myth of the Rational Voter. 

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Mike Van Winkle and Sheldon Richman discuss the Pelosi healthcare bill. How will it affect private health care? Will the provision guaranteeing coverage for preexisting conditions jeopardize individual heath insurance?Link | Get File

Mike Van Winkle asks Prof. Bill Anderson of Frostburg State University What is a weak dollar? And why does it matter? 

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Mike Van Winkle interviews Alexei Marcoux of Loyola University-Chicago about how business ethics is taught in American business schools.
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Mike Van Winkle and Sheldon Richman discuss whether the stimulus is working. They examine claims by the government that the economy would be worse had they not acted.
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Mike Van Winkle gets Sheldon Richman's reaction to President Obama's "major" health care speech before a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009.
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In this episode Prof. Paul Cwik explains the logic behind insurance as a tool for mitigating risk and why the concept of a "public option" completely undercuts it.
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Ben Powell and Mike Van Winkle discuss what could be done to address the perverse incentives wreaking havoc on the current health care system.Link | Get File

Mike Van Winkle interviews Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute about the problems with the proposed government-run insurance plan (generally called the "public option"). Can government really "compete" with the private sector? Can a public insurance plan ever be self-sustaining as many in Congress would have us believe? These questions and more.Link | Get File

Mike Van Winkle interviews Sheldon Richman, editor of The Freeman, about claims by the Obama administration that they will provide more healthcare at a lower cost while not interfering with individual health decisions. Will national healthcare lead to rationing? Does the free market ration healthcare? Listen and find out.Link | Get File

Mike Van Winkle and Prof. Paul Cwik discuss whether Austrian Economics and Macroeconomics are contradictory concepts. Cwik explains the significance of the Austrians' recognition of the non-neutrality of money and the heterogeneity of capital. He also explains how subjectivism informs the Austrian approach to large scale economic phenomena. Link | Get File

Mike Van Winkle and Sheldon Richman discuss the Bernie Madoff scandal. Does the existence of Bernie Madoff prove the government is needed to regulate the market? Without government would there be more or less fraud?Link | Get File

Mike Van Winkle interviews Prof. Steven Horwitz about topic of his upcoming presentation at Evenings at FEE on July 18, 2009. For more information about that event visit the event page. Link | Get File

A discussion with Sheldon Richman about "cap and trade" and U.S. Energy policy.Link | Get File

This interview is part of a new FEE series called "First Principles. In it, Mike Van Winkle interviews Sheldon Richman (editor of The Freeman) about health care reform.Link | Get File