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The Human Action Podcast — 381 episodes
Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports
Why Rothbard Thought the Fed Eliminated Market Safeguards Against Bank Inflation
An Actual Plan to Close the Fed and Tie the Dollar Back to Gold
Essays in Austrian Economics: Honoring Joe Salerno
Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Currency Boards, and the COVID Lockdown Debacle
Thomas Paine: The American Revolution's Unlikely Hero
New Academic Paper Uses Rothbard's National Output Metric
Why Are US Drug Prices So High?
Perfecting the Libertarian Argument for Dealing with the Drug Cartels
Unpacking the Document that Spells Out Trump's Tariff Strategy
Erick Brimen Explains the Free City of Próspera
Would Trump's Plan to Replace Income Tax with Tariffs Work?
Murphy and Newman Do a Postgame Analysis of ZeroHedge MMT Debate
Lawrence McQuillan Explains The Policy Inferno Behind the California Wildfires
The Flaws of GDP Accounting Explained
Why Government Relief Spending Only Makes the Recession Worse
Matt McCaffrey on Frank Fetter vs. Alfred Marshall on the Theory of Rent
Dr. Keith Smith: What Critics Miss About For-Profit Healthcare
What's More "Wicked" than the Crime of '73?
David Glasner on the Sraffa-Hayek Debate
Responding to Bryan Caplan's Continued Critique of the Austrians
Clarifying Economists' Arguments About International Trade
How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer Today?
Unpacking Mises: Fractional Reserve Banking and the Currency School
Philipp Bagus on the Flaws in the “Real Bills” Doctrine
Paul Cwik's New Introduction to Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Tom Luongo on the Rival Factions Among Bankers
Has "Neo-Liberalism" Failed in the United States?
How Government Propped Up Slavery
The Origin of Money: Menger vs. Graeber
Does Advanced Econ Justify Kamala Harris on Price Gouging?
The Classical Economists’ Theory of Value Was More Sophisticated than You Think
The Collapse of the Yen Carry Trade: Impending Recession?
How Economists Evaluate Tariffs Versus Income Taxes
Does the Fed Push Interest Rates Down? History Says Yes
Tackling More of Robert Reich’s 'Economic Myths'
Why Assange Was Released
Why the Scottish "Free Banking" Episode Doesn't Justify Fractional Reserves
Tackling Robert Reich's First Two "Economic Myths"
Garett Jones on the Economic Impact of Culture on Immigration
Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy?
FDR's War Against Civil Liberties
Simon Guenzl vs. Dave Smith on Open Borders
Are American Libertarians Unduly Pessimistic?
Making the Case for Private Law and Defense From Scratch
Ryan McMaken on the History and Benefits of Secession
Why We Don't Need Government Funding for "Moonshots"
Tom DiLorenzo on Antitrust, Abe Lincoln, and the Future of the Austrian School
The Fed's Milkshake Brings All the Foreigners to the Yard
Murphy Gives Post-Game Analysis of ZeroHedge Dollar Debate
Responding to James Lindsay's Critique of "National Divorce"
We Like Ike! Joe Salerno on Rolling Back the Ideology of Inflation
Peter St. Onge On Who's Taking Your Money
Are Capital Gains Income? The Connection with Mises' Calculation Problem
Garett Jones on the Legacy of Robert Solow
Murray Sabrin on Our Broken Medical System
How Statism Leads to War
Responding to Yaron Brook's Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism
The Male/Female Wage Gap and This Year's Nobel Laureate
Diving Deeper into the Fed's Trillion Dollar Loss
Inflation in Money or Prices? The Definition Matters
How Is the Fed Insolvent and Why Should We Care?
Are Workers Being Paid Their Product? Watch Out for Misleading Charts
Why Plea Deals Are a Miscarriage of Justice
The Beltway Libertarians Are Too Smart for Oliver Anthony
Updating Böhm-Bawerk and Fixing Finance
Is China's Economy Hitting a Roadbump or Quicksand?
Is the Fed Responsible for the Recent Surge and Fall in Price Inflation?
The Mirage of "Equal Pay" in Sports
Soft landing? Not likely
Everything You Need to Know About FedNow
How the Fed Could Bring in a Cbdc through the Back Door
Exposing the FBI Coverup of Biden Corruption
MMT's Warren Mosler Argues Fed Rate Hikes Cause Growth and Inflation
The Impact of Falling M2 on Prices and Jobs
MMT Says Government Debt Makes Private Saving Possible
Why ChatGPT Failed an Economics Exam
Do Sticky Prices Make the Market Stuck?
Do People Value Money Because They Need It to Pay Taxes?
Remembering the Contributions of Lucas and Alchian
Does the Inverted Yield Curve Signal a Coming Recession?
Krugman Says It's Paranoid to Worry About a Fed Digital Currency
Jeff's Farewell To The Human Action Podcast
With the Feds, It's the Fox Guarding the Henhouse
How Banking Could Work
The Fed's Malfeasance after SVB
A Permanent Wartime Economy?
Losing Control of Money
The Economics of National Divorce, Part II
The Economics of American Gerontocracy
Davos: Has Globalism Peaked?
Can We Fix the Economy?
Daniel McCarthy Dissects the Midterm Election
The Socio-Politics of the Midterms
Words as Weapons
The Need for Beauty in Economics
Bernanke's Sordid Nobel Prize
Toby Baxendale on the Coming Financial Repression
The Economics of War
Inflation Kills
Dave Smith on the End of Political Pretense
Why Federal Agencies Go Rogue
The Politicization of Economics
What You Can Do
Connor Boyack & the Case for Revisionist History
Inflation Then vs Now: Follow The Money
Who Central Bankers Really Are
Economic Freedom vs. Personal Freedom
Why Social Issues Dominate
Famed Investor Jimmy Rogers
Keith Weiner on the Role of Gold in Today's Economy
The Economics of Woke Disney
The Crazy Housing Market
Economic Ignorance
The Trouble with Oil
War Sanctions
Is Economics Sexist?
Paul Gottfried: The End of the Old Right
Tom Woods on the Old Right
Jim Bovard on HL Mencken
Garet Garrett's "The Revolution Was"
Realistic Prospects for Secession and Decentralization
Daniel McAdams on the Ron Paul Doctrine
Joe Salerno on Rothbard's History of Economic Thought
Rothbard and Adam Smith
Rothbard's History of Economic Thought from Greeks to Physiocrats
Dr. Patrick Newman Introduces Rothbard's History of Economic Thought
Murray Sabrin's New Book on Escaping Medical Fascism
Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim
Mark Spitznagel's Safe Haven
All Quiet on the Western Front
Russell Kirk's "Libertarians, the Chirping Sectaries"
Steven Phelan: Startup Stories
The Fiat Standard with Dr. Saifedean Ammous
Rothbard on Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty
John Tamny on When Politicians Panicked
Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty Finale with Roberta Modugno
Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty with Ryan McMaken
Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty with Stephan Kinsella
Walter Block on The Ethics of Liberty
Rothbard on the Betrayal of the American Right
Bob Murphy on Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Ross Benes on America's Rural Rebellion
Rothbard's Anatomy of the State
Allen Mendenhall—Is Intellectualism Dead?
Daniel McCarthy on the Prospects for Fusionism
Donald Devine on the Enduring Tension
Daniel Lacalle on Freedom or Equality
Dr. Philipp Bagus on the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria
Dr. Patrick Newman on Cronyism in America
Rothbard's America's Great Depression
Scott Horton on his new book "Enough Already"
Guido Hülsmann on The Ethics of Money Production
The Case for Reading Books with Tom Woods
The Managerial Revolution
The Marginal Revolutionaries
When Money Dies
Per Bylund on The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized
MMT Explained with Dr. Robert Murphy
Jeff Deist on Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed
Hoppe's Democracy with Stephan Kinsella
Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed
The Forgotten Hazlitt Book
Dr. Saifedean Ammous on his Upcoming Economics Textbook
Man, Economy, and State: The Finale
Patrick Newman on Rothbard’s Power & Market
The Price of Tomorrow with Jeff Booth
Man, Economy, and State: Money & Its Purchasing Power with Robert Murphy
Man, Economy, and State: Monopoly with Dr. Walter Block
Man, Economy, and State: Entrepreneurship and Change
Man, Economy, and State: Interest Rates
Man, Economy, and State with Shawn Ritenour
Man, Economy and State with Jeff Deist
Why You Should Read Man, Economy, and State
Human Action Part Seven with Tom Woods
Human Action Part Six with Jeff Deist
Human Action Part Six with Dr. Peter Klein
Human Action Part Five with Ryan McMaken
Human Action Part Four with Dr. Mark Thornton
Human Action Part Four with Dr. Joe Salerno
Human Action Part Four with Dr. Jeffrey Herbener
Human Action Part Three with Dr. Per Bylund
Human Action Part One with David Gordon
Why You Should Read Human Action in 2020
Understanding Money Mechanics
Why Gold Still Matters
The Cultural Consequences of Negative Interest Rates
Does Economic Theory Work in Business?
Patrick Newman on Rothbard and his Critics
Hazlitt in One Lesson with Walter Block
The State of Economics Education
Nation, State, and Economy
Richard Cantillon As a Proto-Austrian
Mises on Omnipotent Government
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
The Bureaucratic Revolution
Praxeology and the Method of Economics
Mises on Liberalism and Political Economy
The Theory of Interest Rates
Socialism
Why Menger Matters
Economics is a Mess
Jeff Deist on Why Socialism Persists
Joe Salerno on Mises and Nationalism
Jeff Deist on Money in the 21st Century
Daniel Lacalle on the Central Bank Tightrope
Dave Smith on Trump's Christmas Surprise in Syria and Afghanistan
Carmen Dorobăț: A Young Scholar on Mises's Legacy and Impact
Dr. Robert Murphy on the Dubious Economics of Climate Change
Danielle DiMartino Booth on the Fragile Fed Narrative
Michael Boldin on the Reality of Secession
Jeff Deist on "The Show"
Dr. Yoram Hazony on Liberalism, Nationalism, and Globalism
Ryan McMaken: Capitalism Makes Us More Humane
Dr. Peter Klein on Silicon Valley Socialism
Mises Weekends Live! Allen Mendenhall on our Terrible Supreme Court
Jim Bovard on the Terrible Politicization of America
Jeff Deist: Is American Civilization Self-Destructing?
Jeff Deist on What You Can Do
Dr. Mary Ruwart: How Government Keeps Us Sick
Professor Steve Hanke Explains Hyperinflation
Saifedean Ammous on Bitcoin Hype
Jeff Deist on PC and the State-Linguistic Complex
Judge Andrew Napolitano: How the Courts Killed Natural Law
Ronni Stöferle on Why Gold Still Matters
Ryan McMaken and Jeff Deist on Radical Decentralization
Allen Mendenhall on our Hyper-Political Supreme Court
Daniel Lacalle on Why Central Banks are Trapped
Jacob Huebert on a Libertarian Victory at the Supreme Court
Caitlin Long: Will Blockchain Free Us from Wall Street?
Ryan McMaken: Why Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Danielle DiMartino Booth on the Fed's Mission Impossible
Dr. Yuri Maltsev on Socialism's Resurgence
Jeff Deist on Money, Trade, Tariffs, and Marx
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: What Marx Gets Right
Amity Shlaes on Silent Cal
Per Bylund on AI and the Structure of Production
Daniel McAdams on What You Need to Know About Syria
Kevin Dowd: Against Monetary Stimulus
Michael Watson: What is Outside of Economics?
Jim Bovard on Why Washington Never Learns
Jeff Deist: Are Millennials Abandoning Liberty?
Michael Boldin Makes the Case Against Jeff Sessions
Dan Mitchell: Is There an Endgame for US Debt?
Ryan McMaken on Privatized Approaches to Gun Violence
Michael Malice on North Korea's "Economy"
Mark Thornton: Is the Bust Here?
Daniel McAdams on the Real Cost of "Defense"
Jeff Deist: Beyond the Wall
Ryan McMaken: Are We Getting Poorer?
Michael Boldin: How Decentralization Could Work
Bob Murphy on the Culture Wars
Jim Bovard on Our Slavish Devotion to Politics
Ryan McMaken: Who Prosecutes the Prosecutors?
Dr. Lucas Engelhardt on Why the Fed Should Scare Us
Gabriel Calzada on Free-Market Education in Latin America
Chris Calton: The March to America's Civil War
Dr. Liliana Stern on Growing Up in the USSR
Trey Goff: A Constitution for a Free Society
Claudio Grass on Whether Switzerland can Save the World
Joe Salerno on Rothbard as the Heir to Mises
Daniel Lacalle: A Spanish Libertarian on Catalonia
Dr. Greg Thornbury: Can College Be Saved?
Mark Thornton: Can the Fed Unwind?
Jake Lindsey: NFL Hopeful from Harvard on Why He Loves Austrian Economics
Scott Horton on the Endless War in Afghanistan
Dave Smith: Libertarians and the Culture Wars
Daniel McAdams: Trump and the War Party
Chris Calton: Historical Controversies
Tom Woods: What I Learned from Murray Rothbard
Venezuela on the Brink
Mises Weekends LIVE! with Lew Rockwell
Should Libertarians Care about the Constitution?
Mark Thornton Explains Our Fake Economy
Dr. Richard Ebeling on the State of the Austrian School
Ron Paul on Making Money Great Again
Edward Stringham on Radically Rethinking Police
Peter Klein on How Not to Reform the Fed
David Gordon on Libertarian Philosophy
Mises Weekends: Yes, You Should Read Human Action
Patrick Newman: Rothbard vs. The Progressive Era
Jeff Deist: Is the Sky Falling?
Bob Murphy: Where Monetarism Goes Wrong
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: A World Without Theft
Jonathan Newman: Fake Science
Tho Bishop: The Alt-Right in Auburn
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Inside the Fed
Caitlin Long: What Blockchain Means
Godfrey Bloom: From Brexit to Frexit?
Per Bylund: Who Built That?
Entrepreneurial Super-Intelligence: Praxeology in the Age of A.I.
Bastiat: The Unseen Radical
Patrick Byrne: Liberty vs. Submission
Kevin Gutzman: Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary
Michael Boldin: CalExit and Secession
Patrick Byrne: How Tech Can Thwart the State
Allen Mendenhall: Trump's Supreme Court
Tom Woods: Trump Goes to Washington
John Tamny: Trump's Economics
Nick Sorrentino: Against Crony Capitalism
Patrick Barron: Negative Interest Rates Demystified
Ralph Raico: Liberalism Defined
Ronald Stöferle: Austrian Investing
John Williams: The Federal Government's Fake News
Yuri Maltsev: Why Socialism Endures
Justin Raimondo: What Trump Means
James Rickards: End Game for the Global Economy
Allen Mendenhall: Election Postmortem
Jeff Deist: A Libertarian View of the Election
Nomi Prins: The Left/Progressive Case Against the Fed
Dr. Jeffrey Herbener: Demystifying the Fed
Lew Rockwell: Our Prospects are Bright
Jeff Deist: The Broken State of Modern Economics
Joe Salerno: Economics is Broken
Jeff Deist: The Role of the Mises Institute
Mark Thornton: Against Crony Trade Deals
Godfrey Bloom: How Brexit Won
Tom DiLorenzo: What Socialism Really Is
Jeff Deist: Libertarian Strategy
Judge Andrew Napolitano: What the 1st Amendment Really Means
Sascha Klocke and Louis Rouanet: Can Austrian Economics Save Europe?
Robert Higgs: The State is too Dangerous to Tolerate
Jeff Deist: Hillary, Trump, Brexit, and BLM
Godfrey Bloom: What Brexit Means
Jeff Deist: The Trouble with Conservatives
Jeff Deist: The Trouble with Progressives
Tom Woods: Rothbard Changed my Mind about War
Jeff Deist: Surviving Election Season
John O'Donnell: How Central Banks Affect Culture
Jim Rickards: The New Case for Gold
Daniel McAdams: How the War Party Works
Dr. Michel Accad: Can Austrian Economics Save Medicine?
Hunter Hastings: Individualism in the Age of the Smart Machine
Dr. Guido Hülsmann: Nation, State, and Borders
Jeff Deist and Jay Taylor: Banks are Dangerous
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Why Democracy Fails
Matt McCaffrey: Revisiting Rothbard
Jeff Deist: Socialist Left, alt-Right, and the Myth of Democratic Consensus
Paul-Martin Foss: The Bizarre World of Negative Interest Rates
Murray Rothbard: The Godfather of Libertarianism
Ron Paul: Socialism and War Will Not Prevail
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Praxeology as Methodology
Dr. Mark Thornton: Central Bankers Don't Understand Booms and Busts
Dr. Joe Salerno: Will Presidential Candidates Talk about Money?
Claudio Grass: The Swiss Vote on Fractional Reserve Banking
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Natural Law vs. Tyranny
John V. Denson: The Christmas Truce
Robert Murphy: Human Action
Yuri Maltsev: Socialism, Fascism, and Trumpism
Łukasz Dominiak: Is Europe's Future in the East?
Jeff Deist: What Must Be Done?
Louis Rouanet: The Paris Terror Attacks
Tom DiLorenzo: PC on Campus
William Boyes: Get Rid of Public Schools
Bob Murphy: Government Medicine is Killing Us
Dr. Michel Accad: Why Can't We Pay Cash for Doctors?
Charles Hugh Smith: The US Healthcare Debacle
Ed Stringham: Private Governance
Rod Martin: Hope Lies In Entrepreneurs, Not Politicians
Bill Bonner: Empire of Debt
Patrick Barron: Do Central Bankers Really Believe What they Say?
Per Bylund: Refugees, Property Rights, and Open Borders
Jim Rickards: Will Currency Wars Reorder the World?
Dr. Joe Salerno: Crashes are the Cure, not the Problem
Helio Beltrão: Will Brazil Choose Marx or Mises?
Dr. Malavika Nair: Money Demystified
Bob Higgs: War is the Master Key of the State
Tom Woods: How Mises Changed My Life
Bob Murphy: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action
Karl-Friedrich Israel: The ECB Has Failed
Tate Fegley: Crime and Punishment in a Libertarian Society
Patrick Barron: The Greek Crisis and the Impossibility of the Euro
Łukasz Dominiak: Culture in Hoppe's Private Law Society
Demelza Hays: American Millennials Head for the Exits
Louis Rouanet: The French Tradition of Liberty
Joseph Salerno: The War on Cash
James Grant: The Forgotten Depression
James Ostrowski: The Illiberal Progressive Mind
David Stockman: Against Crony Capitalism, Part 2
David Stockman: Against Crony Capitalism, Part 1
Joe Salerno: Austrian Economics and Crony Academia, Part 1