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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
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Saifedean's The Bitcoin Standard Podcast is the place to discuss Bitcoin and economics from the Austrian school's perspective. Listen to the weekly saifedean.com discussion seminar, where a group of learners from all over the world discuss the website's online courses, as well as a wide variety of economic, political, and social issues, and occasionally host special guests for the discussion. The podcast also includes the most interesting interviews conducted with Saifedean on other shows.
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329. Principles of Economics Lecture 16: Violence
Yesterday01:23:36Summary ready16th lecture of Principles of Economics explores the economics of violence in both its private and governmental forms, the non-aggression principle as the foundation of peaceful cooperation, how government coercion differs from market exchange, and the rationales offered to justify state violence.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourseCrowdhealth: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/
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328. Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
1w ago00:50:55Summary readySaifedean presents the Misesian case against Israel, and argues the only way to understand the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is that it is the result of the denial of property rights for Palestinians based purely on their not belonging to the ruling ethnoreligious group.Full Article: https://saifedean.substack.com/p/property-rights-the-root-cause-ofArticle on X: https://x.com/saifedean/status/1987845360484520258
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327. Principles of Economics Lecture 15: Monetary Expansion
2w ago01:34:16Summary ready15th lecture of Principles of Economics explores monetary expansion as the issuance of credit unbacked by savings, how it distorts interest rates and misallocates capital, why this generates the business cycle, Mises' money typology & how central banks are central planners of capital markets.Get all course notes and slides on https://saifedean.com/poecourse
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326. On Milei and Rothbard
3w ago00:50:57Summary readySaifedean reads the text of his new article on Argentina's Javier Milei experiment, and also reads the text of his tribute to Murray Rothbard, to be published in Rothbard At 100: A Tribute and Assessment, a collection of essays edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Stephan Kinsella celebrating Rothbard's centenary, available for preorder now from The Saif HouseRothbard at 100: Hardcover – Preorder: https://academy.saifedean.com/product/rothbard-at-100-hardcover/
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325. Principles of Economics Lecture 14: Credit and Banking
4w ago01:17:38Summary readyFourteenth lecture of Principles of Economics explores credit and banking as the institutions that channel savings into investment, how commodity credit emerges from real savings, while circulation credit comes from money creation, why interest rates reflect time preference, and whether interest can be eliminated with hard money.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
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324. Apolar Money: Lecture at the Global Economy & Finance Conference in Seoul
May 501:24:24Summary readySaifedean makes the case for bitcoin as apolar money, the only workable alternative to a government global reserve currency and a unipolar world order, and how geopolitical developments underscore this role.
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323. Principles of Economics Lecture 13: Time Preference
Apr 2800:42:09Summary readyThirteenth lecture of Principles of Economics explores time preference as the rate at which individuals discount the future, how property rights and hard money reduce uncertainty and lower time preference, enabling saving and investment, and why the progressive lowering of time preference is the driving force behind capital accumulation and the process of civilization.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
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322. Principles of Economics Lecture 12: Capitalism
Apr 2100:58:46Summary readyTwelfth lecture of Principles of Economics explores capitalism as the system of private ownership of capital goods, how free capital markets allocate resources to their most productive uses through profit and loss, why economic calculation requires private property, and why socialism fails without it.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourseSponsors:Crowdhealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/Daylight - The computer, de-invented - https://daylightcomputer.com/CoinKite - Bitcoin Security and Fun Devices - https://coinkite.shop/bitcoinstandardTheBitcoinWay - TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE https://www.thebitcoinway.com/The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - https://TheSaifHouse.com
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321. Principles of Economics Lecture 11: Markets
Apr 1401:06:05Summary readyEleventh lecture of Principles of Economics explains how individual preferences coordinate production and consumption decisions through economic calculation based on property rights, and why consumer sovereignty drives entrepreneurial decisions in the market order.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
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320. Principles of Economics Lecture 10: Money
Apr 701:34:59Summary readyTenth lecture of Principles of Economics explores money as the most salable good, how it emerges from trade, solves the coincidence-of-wants problem, enables calculation and specialization, preserves value across time, and why hardness matters more than quantity.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
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