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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Dr. Saifedean Ammous 366 episodes Latest Jun 9, 2026

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.

Episodes

329. Principles of Economics Lecture 16: Violence Jun 9, 2026 5016 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/poecourseCrowdhealth: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com
328. Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Jun 2, 2026 3055 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-ofArticle on X: https://x.com/saifedean/status/19878
327. Principles of Economics Lecture 15: Monetary Expansion May 26, 2026 5656 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
326. On Milei and Rothbard May 19, 2026 3057 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 HouseRothbard at 100: Hardcover – Pre
325. Principles of Economics Lecture 14: Credit and Banking May 12, 2026 4658 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
324. Apolar Money: Lecture at the Global Economy & Finance Conference in Seoul May 5, 2026 5064 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. 
323. Principles of Economics Lecture 13: Time Preference Apr 28, 2026 2529 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 slid
322. Principles of Economics Lecture 12: Capitalism Apr 21, 2026 3526 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/poecourseSponsors:Crowdhealth - https://www.joinc
321. Principles of Economics Lecture 11: Markets Apr 14, 2026 3965 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
320. Principles of Economics Lecture 10: Money Apr 7, 2026 5699 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.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
319. Escalating from Suez to Waterloo Mar 31, 2026 3205 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/2038250120890769859https://saifedean.substack.com/p/escalating-from-suez-to-waterloo
318. Principles of Economics Lecture 9: Trade Mar 24, 2026 3651 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.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

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