Econception

How much have state budgets been taken over by the federal government? Is anything wrong with the Bureau of Labor Statistics? And what’s nationalist about trade surpluses?

Tony Woodlief joins Econception to discuss.

Tony Woodlief is State Policy Network’s Senior Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow for SPN’s Center for Practical Federalism.

Are the economic doomers right? How does government policy influence which industries thrive in America? Can rich people who think their taxes are too low pay more to the government instead?

Jeremy Horpedahl joins Econception to discuss these questions and more.

Dr. Jeremy Horpedahl is the Director of ACRE and an associate professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas.

What's going on with the market reforms in Argentina? What have other countries done to fix their social security programs? And how did FedEx change the world?

Manhattan Institute Fellow Daniel DiMartino joins Econception to discuss.

What’s going on with the Republican tax bill? How different can state budgets really be from one another? And how does Amtrak justify its barely used services?

Adam Michel joins Econception to discuss.

Adam N. Michel is director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, where he focuses on analyzing the economic and budgetary effects of taxation in the United States.

Where do Trump’s tariffs stand legally? Are foreign students banned from American universities? And are we really going to have to prove that mind control doesn’t work again in New York City?

Dominic Dino works through these questions and more on Econception.

What’s the case for free trade? What’s the history of free trade in the United States? And is undoing free trade a sound grand strategy for the United States?

Dominic Pino looks through these questions on the latest episode of Econception.

How can government policy be more family-friendly? Can socialism exist without coercion? How did bad monetary policy encourage DEI and ESG?

Susannah Petitt joins Dominic to discuss.

Susannah Petitt is a Social Mobility Fellow at Young Voices and Programs Manager at the Mercatus Center.

Why does public transit keep costing the government more money? Why is cheaper goods the same thing as higher pay? And why don't most people have pensions anymore?

Dominic Pino sits down with Marc Scribner to look through these questions on this episode of Econception.

Marc Scribner is a Senior Transportation Policy Analyst at Reason Foundation.

Do Europeans work hard enough? Why do you pay higher interest rates than banks? And can a Hawaiian rum company end one of our worst protectionist laws?

Garett Jones joins Dominic Pino to discuss these questions on the latest episode of Econception.

Garett Jones is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

What does "GDP" actually mean? Are European value-added taxes really tariffs on America? Does the US need a sovereign wealth fund?

Dominic Pino discusses these questions and more on the latest episode of Econception.

How should free market supporters think about welfare programs? Is road congestion pricing a good idea? And what's the matter with the Endangered Species Act?

Dominic Pino discusses this on the latest episode of Econception.

How are local governments blocking churches from caring for the homeless? What's the difference between a government shutdown and hitting the debt ceiling? And how do markets work to get Christmas presents on time?

Christian Britschgi joins the show to discuss.

Christian Britschgi is a reporter at Reason who covers property rights, housing policy, transportation policy, and regulation.

What are the economics of podcasts? Is the CHIPS Act working? And are China’s corporate tax rates better than ours?

Emily Jashinsky joins Dominic today to discuss.

Emily Jashinsky is UnHerd's Washington D.C. Correspondent and a writer at several outlets, including The Federalist.