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• 329. Principles of Economics Lecture 16: Violence 09.06.2026 1j 23mnt

  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/
• 328. Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 02.06.2026 50mnt

  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
• 327. Principles of Economics Lecture 15: Monetary Expansion 26.05.2026 1j 34mnt

  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 19.05.2026 50mnt

  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/
• 325. Principles of Economics Lecture 14: Credit and Banking 12.05.2026 1j 17mnt

  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 05.05.2026 1j 24mnt

  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 28.04.2026 42mnt

  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
• 322. Principles of Economics Lecture 12: Capitalism 21.04.2026 58mnt

  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 ...
• 321. Principles of Economics Lecture 11: Markets 14.04.2026 1j 6mnt

  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 07.04.2026 1j 34mnt

  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 31.03.2026 53mnt

  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
• 318. Principles of Economics Lecture 9: Trade 24.03.2026 1j

  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
• 317. Principles of Economics Lecture 8: Energy and Power 17.03.2026 1j 13mnt

  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. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
• 316. Principles of Economics Lecture 7: Technology 10.03.2026 46mnt

  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. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
• 315. Principles of Economics Lecture 6: Capital 03.03.2026 47mnt

  Sixth lecture of Principles of Economics explores capital as saved resources that lengthen production to raise productivity, showing how time preference governs saving and interest, why capital is costly and fragile (depreciation, risk, destruction), and how capital accumulation drives higher living standards. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
• 314. Principles of Economics Lecture 5: Property 24.02.2026 44mnt

  Fifth lecture of Principles of Economics explains property as the only workable solution to the problem of scarcity, how ownership prevents conflict, the logic of self-ownership, and how secure property rights enable saving, capital formation, peaceful cooperation & civilizational advance. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
• 313. Principles of Economics Lecture 4: Labor 17.02.2026 47mnt

  Fourth lecture of Principles of Economics explores labor as the sacrifice of leisure for future gain, explaining disutility, production and productivity, how wages reflect marginal output, why work never disappears, and how voluntary labor and capital raise the value of human time. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
• 312. Principles of Economics Lecture 3: Time 10.02.2026 50mnt

  Third lecture of Principles of Economics examines time as the ultimate scarce resource, showing how all human action unfolds across time, why opportunity cost exists, how time preference shapes choices, and how economizing time drives production, saving, and civilization. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
• 311. The Bitcoin vs Gold Debate: Saifedean Ammous vs Peter Schiff 03.02.2026 51mnt

  Saifedean debates Peter Schiff on gold, bitcoin, and the future of money, during the PlanB Conference in San Salvador!
• 310: Principles of Economics Lecture 2: Value 27.01.2026 49mnt

  Second lecture of Principles of Economics course explores value as a subjective judgment existing only in the consciousness of humans, how scarcity forces economizing, and how marginal utility determines choices and valuations of goods. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse