• 50 minutes 57 seconds
    326. On Milei and Rothbard

    Saifedean 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 House

    Rothbard at 100: Hardcover – Preorder: https://academy.saifedean.com/product/rothbard-at-100-hardcover/

    19 May 2026, 8:00 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    325. Principles of Economics Lecture 14: Credit and Banking

    Fourteenth 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

    12 May 2026, 5:00 am
  • 1 hour 24 minutes
    324. Apolar Money: Lecture at the Global Economy & Finance Conference in Seoul

    Saifedean 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. 

    5 May 2026, 6:00 am
  • 42 minutes 9 seconds
    323. Principles of Economics Lecture 13: Time Preference

    Thirteenth 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.

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    28 April 2026, 6:00 am
  • 58 minutes 46 seconds
    322. Principles of Economics Lecture 12: Capitalism

    Twelfth 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/poecourse

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    21 April 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    321. Principles of Economics Lecture 11: Markets

    Eleventh 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.


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    14 April 2026, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 34 minutes
    320. Principles of Economics Lecture 10: Money

    Tenth 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.

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    7 April 2026, 11:00 am
  • 53 minutes 25 seconds
    319. Escalating from Suez to Waterloo

    Trump’s Three-Card-Monte Takes on the Chess Grandmasters 

    This is a full reading of Saifedean's article analyzing one month of the Iran War and its likely political and economic consequences.

    https://x.com/saifedean/status/2038250120890769859

    https://saifedean.substack.com/p/escalating-from-suez-to-waterloo

    31 March 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 51 seconds
    318. Principles of Economics Lecture 9: Trade

    Ninth lecture of Principles of Economics explores trade as voluntary exchange that benefits all parties, explaining subjective valuation, absolute and comparative advantage, and how specialization and the division of labor raise productivity, cooperation, and civilization.

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    24 March 2026, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    317. Principles of Economics Lecture 8: Energy and Power

    Eighth lecture of Principles of Economics examines energy and power as essential drivers of production, showing how abundant energy, especially hydrocarbons, raises productivity, expands trade and living standards, and helps explain prosperity, freedom, and the decline of slavery.

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    17 March 2026, 10:00 am
  • 46 minutes 54 seconds
    316. Principles of Economics Lecture 7: Technology

    Seventh lecture of Principles of Economics explores technology as non-scarce knowledge that raises productivity and drives long-term growth, explaining why innovation creates new work instead of destroying it, and examining the economic arguments surrounding intellectual property.

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    10 March 2026, 7:00 am
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