
Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Stephan Kinsella read the preface, introduction, and first chapter of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, published by The Saif House, July 2026. Preorder your copy now, and join us for the Rothbard At 100 conference in Porto on June 27. Details are on rothbard100.pt
Jun 16
1 hr 40 min

16th 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/poecourse Crowdhealth: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/
Jun 9
1 hr 23 min

Saifedean 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-of Article on X: https://x.com/saifedean/status/1987845360484520258
Jun 2
50 min

15th 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
May 26
1 hr 34 min

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/
May 19
50 min

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
May 12
1 hr 17 min

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.
May 5
1 hr 24 min

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. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
Apr 28
42 min

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 Sponsors: Crowdhealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/ Daylight - The computer, de-invented - https://daylightcomputer.com/ CoinKite ...
Apr 21
58 min

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. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
Apr 14
1 hr 6 min
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