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 02, 2026•51 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, 2026•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, 2026•51 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, 2026•1 hr 18 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 05, 2026•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, 2026•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 - B...
Apr 21, 2026•59 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, 2026•1 hr 6 min
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
Apr 07, 2026•1 hr 35 min
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
Mar 31, 2026•53 min
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
Mar 24, 2026•1 hr 1 min
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
Mar 17, 2026•1 hr 13 min
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
Mar 10, 2026•47 min
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
Mar 03, 2026•47 min
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
Feb 24, 2026•45 min
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
Feb 17, 2026•47 min
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
Feb 10, 2026•51 min
Saifedean debates Peter Schiff on gold, bitcoin, and the future of money, during the PlanB Conference in San Salvador!
Feb 03, 2026•52 min
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
Jan 27, 2026•50 min
Starting this week, I'm releasing all the lectures of my Principles of Economics online course for free! This week's lecture explores economics as the study of human action and choice under scarcity, how humans act purposefully with deliberative reason, and why proper economic reasoning is based on understanding human action. Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse
Jan 21, 2026•1 hr 3 min
Saifedean joins Danny Knowles on What Bitcoin Did to discuss The Gold Standard : how fiat funded war and made endless conflict possible, why hard money shapes time preference, and why gold failed where Bitcoin can win.
Jan 13, 2026•1 hr 6 min
Tom Woods interviews Saifedean about his latest book, The Gold Standard. https://saifedean.com/tgs
Jan 06, 2026•1 hr 4 min
Our friend Tony Yazbeck rejoins us to tell us about bitcoin best practices, self-custody, and privacy.
Dec 30, 2025•57 min
In this interview, Saifedean talks with economist Juan Ramón Rallo about his book Principles of Economics , as well as the future of fiat money in the face of the rise of gold and Bitcoin.
Dec 23, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Tristan Scott, founder of Daylight Computer, joins us to explore the philosophy behind distraction-free technology, the limits of current devices, and how rethinking hardware can help restore focus and mental clarity.
Dec 16, 2025•1 hr 16 min
We’re joined by Balaji Srinivasan, entrepreneur and investor, to explore his ideas from The Network State : how technology is reshaping companies, communities, and currencies—and how it could also enable new cities and even new countries.
Dec 09, 2025•2 hr 30 min
The final lecture of this course examines how bitcoin's fixed supply & censorship resistance upends the entire fiat monetary order, & explores how the two systems will interact over time. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free download. You can also take the rest of Saifedean's courses by signing up to a membership on saifedean.com/membership...
Dec 02, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Saifedean's talk at The Bitcoin Conference introducing his new book, The Gold Standard, followed by the introduction and chapter 1 of the book! Get your audiobook, hardcover, or paperback from TheSaifHouse.com or Amazon.com ....
Nov 25, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Saifedean discusses the main ideas of his new book, The Gold Standard, and his motivation for writing it, in this deep conversation with Robert Dewey of the Exploring Prosperity Podcast. https://saifedean.com/tgs
Nov 18, 2025•1 hr 33 min
In this lecture delivered at the Property and Freedom Society, Saifedean explains why the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the denial of property rights. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere.
Nov 11, 2025•40 min
