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The Human Action Podcast — 116 episodes

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1

Luke Gromen on the Strait of Hormuz and Supply Chain Collapse

2

Can AI Solve the Socialist Calculation Problem?

3

Visualizing The Boom-Bust Cycle with Roger Garrison

4

Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter

5

Milei Defends Capitalism and Austrian Economics at the WEF

6

California’s Billionaire Tax and State-to-State Flight

7

Dr. Keith Smith on the Health Insurance Cartel

8

Is Bitcoin Fiat Money?

9

Gold Exports, Trade Deficits, and Tariffs

10

Billionaires, Workers, and the Exploitation Theory

11

Dr. Peter Klein on International Law and “Might Makes Right”

12

Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics

13

Eric Weinstein’s Challenge to Mainstream Mathematical Economics

14

The Intra-Austrian Debate over Milei and the Central Bank

15

The Great Depression: An Austrian Reply to WIRED

16

Interest Is Not the Marginal Product of Capital

17

What Makes Economics Scientific?

18

Rethinking "Sticky Prices" and Monetary Disequilibrium

19

How Congress Should Reform the Fed

20

Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports

21

AI, Automation, and the Human Advantage

22

The Importance of Time in Explaining Asset Bubbles

23

Are Private Equity Firms Really Driving Home Prices?

24

Why the Fed Isn’t Really Independent

25

Peter Klein on Hayek for the 21st Century

26

How Private Banks Can Create Money, But Not Like the Fed Can

27

Why Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Supermarkets Won't Feed NYC

28

Responding to Richard Werner on Banking

29

Understanding Stablecoins and US Crypto Policy

30

An Actual Plan to Close the Fed and Tie the Dollar Back to Gold

31

A Comprehensive Case for Ending the Fed

32

Essays in Austrian Economics: Honoring Joe Salerno

33

Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Currency Boards, and the COVID Lockdown Debacle

34

Thomas Paine: The American Revolution's Unlikely Hero

35

New Academic Paper Uses Rothbard's National Output Metric

36

The Crucial Principle and Data At Stake in the SoHo Immigration Debate

37

What the New Right Gets Right—and Wrong—About Free Trade

38

Why Are US Drug Prices So High?

39

Explaining the Quirks in the GDP Report

40

Should Economists Champion Fed "Independence"?

41

Randall Wray's MMT Lecture Distorts History

42

Trump's Tariffs: Triffin Is Wrong, Ron Paul Is Right

43

Menger vs. MMT on the Origins of Money

44

Even the Inventor of GDP Statistics Knew Government Spending Was Dubious

45

Why Price Deflation Doesn't Hinder Investment

46

Perfecting the Libertarian Argument for Dealing with the Drug Cartels

47

Guido Hülsmann on What You Can Find in the New Grove City Mises Archives

48

Unpacking the Document that Spells Out Trump's Tariff Strategy

49

Erick Brimen Explains the Free City of Próspera

50

Would Trump's Plan to Replace Income Tax with Tariffs Work?

51

Lawrence McQuillan Explains the Policy Inferno Behind the California Wildfires

52

The Flaws of GDP Accounting Explained

53

Matt McCaffrey on Frank Fetter vs. Alfred Marshall on the Theory of Rent

54

Dr. Keith Smith: What Critics Miss About For-Profit Healthcare

55

What's More "Wicked" than the Crime of '73?

56

Clarifying Economists' Arguments About International Trade

57

Why FEMA Makes Things Worse: Theory and History

58

How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer Today?

59

Was Ricardo's Comparative Advantage Really Different From What Adam Smith Said About Foreign Trade?

60

What Was Mises's Position on Fractional Reserve Banking?

61

Paul Cwik's New Introduction to Austrian Business Cycle Theory

62

Tom Luongo on the Rival Factions Among Bankers

63

The Origin of Money: Menger vs. Graeber

64

Does Advanced Econ Justify Kamala Harris on Price Gouging?

65

The Classical Economists’ Theory of Value Was More Sophisticated than You Think

66

The Collapse of the Yen Carry Trade: Impending Recession?

67

What Does Say’s Law Really Say?

68

How Economists Evaluate Tariffs Versus Income Taxes

69

Does the Fed Push Interest Rates Down? History Says Yes

70

Tackling More of Robert Reich’s 'Economic Myths'

71

Why Assange Was Released

72

Why the Scottish "Free Banking" Episode Doesn't Justify Fractional Reserves

73

Tackling Robert Reich's First Two "Economic Myths"

74

Is the Dollar the Global Reserve Currency Because There Is No Better Alternative?

75

Would Ending the Fed Cause a Depression?

76

Garett Jones on the Economic Impact of Culture on Immigration

77

Mateusz Machaj on Economists and Inflation

78

How State-Sponsored Universities Distort Campus Activism

79

Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy?

80

FDR's War Against Civil Liberties

81

Simon Guenzl vs. Dave Smith on Open Borders

82

Tom DiLorenzo on Antitrust, Abe Lincoln, and the Future of the Austrian School

83

Does Libertarianism Require Support for Open Borders?

84

Responding to James Lindsay's Critique of "National Divorce"

85

We Like Ike! Joe Salerno on Rolling Back the Ideology of Inflation

86

Peter St. Onge On Who's Taking Your Money

87

Are Capital Gains Income? The Connection with Mises’s Calculation Problem

88

Murray Sabrin on Our Broken Medical System

89

Will Texit Be on the GOP Primary Ballot in 2024?

90

The Treasury is Running Out of Creditors

91

Co-Creator Explains Javier Milei's Plan to Abolish the Central Bank

92

Murray Sabrin's Memoir: From Liberal Democrat to Libertarian Running for Governor of New Jersey

93

How Statism Leads to War

94

The Male/Female Wage Gap and This Year's Nobel Laureate

95

Inflation in Money or Prices? The Definition Matters

96

How Is the Fed Insolvent and Why Should We Care?

97

Historie miłosne duetu KiM

98

Are Workers Being Paid Their Product? Watch Out for Misleading Charts

99

The Beltway Libertarians Are Too Smart for Oliver Anthony

100

Is China's Economy Hitting a Roadbump or Quicksand?

101

Is the Fed Responsible for the Recent Surge and Fall in Price Inflation?

102

Tęsknota za beztroskością. Rozmowa z Arkiem Kłusowskim

103

The Mirage of "Equal Pay" in Sports

104

Everything You Need to Know About FedNow

105

How the Fed Could Bring in a CBDC Through the Back Door

106

Exposing the FBI Coverup of Biden Corruption

107

The Impact of Falling M2 on Prices and Jobs

108

MMT Says Government Debt Makes Private Saving Possible

109

Santorski: Nowoczesne środowisko pracy to nie folwark, a laboratorium - jest w nim miejsce na błędy i eksperymenty

110

Do People Value Money Because They Need It to Pay Taxes?

111

Les Chasses au trésor de la Vallée du Léguer

112

Episode 501: August 2022 Top Ten

113

WFC - Le Real Madrid doit-il lâcher Casemiro à Manchester Utd ?

114

WFC - France : nos prédictions de la saison 2022/23

115

Purely Music Steve Hamby 15

116

Purely Music Carlos Pardeiro 223