The Human Action Podcast

The Human Action Podcast

The Human Action Podcast features in-depth interviews on current topics in economics through an Austro-libertarian lens.

How Banking Could Work

03/25/2023Mises Media

Jeff and Bob walk through the mechanics of how a full reserve bank could work in a truly free market based on the concepts and taxonomy of Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit.

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The Fed's Malfeasance after SVB

03/18/2023Mises Media

Did the central bank break the law by effectively authorizing unsecured loans to banks based on the face valuerather than significantly lower market value...

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A Permanent Wartime Economy?

03/10/2023Mises Media

Can national treasuries essentially adopt a permanent wartime footing and print far more money without consequence?

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Losing Control of Money

03/03/2023Mises Media

Is the dollar now unbound, as the dominant political tool of the dominant nation? Jeff and Bob take a look at how strong the US dollar really is. 

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The Economics of National Divorce, Part II

02/24/2023Mises Media

Tom Woods joins the show for a look at the hottest political topic of the day, namely national divorce.

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The Economics of American Gerontocracy

02/17/2023Mises Media

With Yale economics professor Yusuke Narita suggesting mass suicide—seppuku—as the answer to Japan's rapidly aging demographics, Jeff and Bob take a hard look at the economics and humanity of greying America.

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ESG and DEI are Worse Than You Think

Tags EducationFinancial MarketsOther Schools of Thought
02/10/2023Mises Media

Jeff Deist and Allen Mendenhall discuss "stakeholder" capitalism and what we can do to push back against ideological purity tests.

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Why This Recession is Different

Tags EducationFinancial MarketsOther Schools of Thought
02/03/2023Mises Media

Jeff makes the case for viewing today's economy as quite unlike that of 2007—due to steady increases in CPI, more fiscal stimulus relative to monetary stimulus, and ongoing supply shock issues from covid.

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Is Economics a Dead Discipline?

Tags EducationFinancial MarketsOther Schools of Thought

The economics discipline has devolved into statistics, models, and hard science envy. Is the profession doing any good, or active harm? Per Bylund joins Jeff and Bob to discuss.

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Davos: Has Globalism Peaked?

01/20/2023Mises Media

Jeff and Bob break down this week's Davos WEF conference and consider whether global elites really have the mechanisms to impose their plans.

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