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The Human Action Podcast — 116 episodes
Luke Gromen on the Strait of Hormuz and Supply Chain Collapse
Bob Responds to Randall Wray on Sectoral Balances
Can AI Solve the Socialist Calculation Problem?
Visualizing The Boom-Bust Cycle with Roger Garrison
Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter
Banning Congress, Not Markets: The Insider Trading Dilemma
Milei Defends Capitalism and Austrian Economics at the WEF
California’s Billionaire Tax and State-to-State Flight
Dr. Keith Smith on the Health Insurance Cartel
Is Bitcoin Fiat Money?
Gold Exports, Trade Deficits, and Tariffs
Billionaires, Workers, and the Exploitation Theory
Dr. Peter Klein on International Law and “Might Makes Right”
Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics
Three Economic Fallacies: Holidays, Billionaires, and WWII
Eric Weinstein’s Challenge to Mainstream Mathematical Economics
The Intra-Austrian Debate over Milei and the Central Bank
The Great Depression: An Austrian Reply to WIRED
Interest Is Not the Marginal Product of Capital
What Makes Economics Scientific?
Rethinking "Sticky Prices" and Monetary Disequilibrium
How Congress Should Reform the Fed
Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports
AI, Automation, and the Human Advantage
The Importance of Time in Explaining Asset Bubbles
Are Private Equity Firms Really Driving Home Prices?
Why the Fed Isn’t Really Independent
Peter Klein on Hayek for the 21st Century
Why Rothbard Thought the Fed Eliminated Market Safeguards Against Bank Inflation
How Private Banks Can Create Money, But Not Like the Fed Can
Why Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Supermarkets Won't Feed NYC
Responding to Richard Werner on Banking
Understanding Stablecoins and US Crypto Policy
An Actual Plan to Close the Fed and Tie the Dollar Back to Gold
A Comprehensive Case for Ending the Fed
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
The Debate Over the Big Beautiful Bill
New Academic Paper Uses Rothbard's National Output Metric
The Crucial Principle and Data At Stake in the SoHo Immigration Debate
What the New Right Gets Right—and Wrong—About Free Trade
Why Are US Drug Prices So High?
Explaining the Quirks in the GDP Report
The Method Behind Real Economic Thinking
Should Economists Champion Fed "Independence"?
Randall Wray's MMT Lecture Distorts History
Trump's Tariffs: Triffin Is Wrong, Ron Paul Is Right
Menger vs. MMT on the Origins of Money
Even the Inventor of GDP Statistics Knew Government Spending Was Dubious
Why Price Deflation Doesn't Hinder Investment
Perfecting the Libertarian Argument for Dealing with the Drug Cartels
Guido Hülsmann on What You Can Find in the New Grove City Mises Archives
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
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?
Clarifying Economists' Arguments About International Trade
Why FEMA Makes Things Worse: Theory and History
How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer Today?
Was Ricardo's Comparative Advantage Really Different From What Adam Smith Said About Foreign Trade?
What Was Mises's Position on Fractional Reserve Banking?
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
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?
What Does Say’s Law Really Say?
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"
Is the Dollar the Global Reserve Currency Because There Is No Better Alternative?
Would Ending the Fed Cause a Depression?
Garett Jones on the Economic Impact of Culture on Immigration
Mateusz Machaj on Economists and Inflation
How State-Sponsored Universities Distort Campus Activism
Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy?
FDR's War Against Civil Liberties
Simon Guenzl vs. Dave Smith on Open Borders
Ryan McMaken on the History and Benefits of Secession
Tom DiLorenzo on Antitrust, Abe Lincoln, and the Future of the Austrian School
Does Libertarianism Require Support for Open Borders?
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’s Calculation Problem
Murray Sabrin on Our Broken Medical System
Will Texit Be on the GOP Primary Ballot in 2024?
The Treasury is Running Out of Creditors
Co-Creator Explains Javier Milei's Plan to Abolish the Central Bank
Murray Sabrin's Memoir: From Liberal Democrat to Libertarian Running for Governor of New Jersey
How Statism Leads to War
The Male/Female Wage Gap and This Year's Nobel Laureate
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
The Beltway Libertarians Are Too Smart for Oliver Anthony
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
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
The Impact of Falling M2 on Prices and Jobs
MMT Says Government Debt Makes Private Saving Possible
Do People Value Money Because They Need It to Pay Taxes?