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Russ’s drinks by the pool with Hitchens
How potato chips are made. And what it tells us about economics
Backwards towards “artisanal”
How will a NatCon economy perform?
It ain’t all doom and gloom (surprisingly)
Do academic economists matter?
Russ talks to Milton Friedman
Do long-term economic trends tells us …
Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts)
Sep 13, 2025
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Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.Listen on
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