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EPISODE · Dec 8, 2025

The Intra-Austrian Debate over Milei and the Central Bank

from The Human Action Podcast · host Robert P. Murphy

This week, Bob walks through two related debates: Hoppe’s criticism of Argentina's President Milei for not immediately closing Argentina’s central bank, and the follow-up exchange between Guido Hülsmann and Philipp Bagus on Mises.org over dollarization and the peso. Along the way, he reviews Mises’s distinctions among commodity, credit, and fiat money, the concepts of money substitutes and fiduciary media, and the interesting structure of Argentina’s short-term central bank debtGuido Hülsmann and Philipp Bagus' Debate on Mises.org: Mises.org/HAP529aThe Human Action Podcast Episode with Nicolás Cachanosky: Mises.org/HAP529bBob's Study Guide to The Theory of Money and Credit: Mises.org/HAP529cThe Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Hayek for the 21st Century. Get your free copy at Mises.org/HAPodFree

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