117. The Problem with Interest with Tarek El Diwany (and Allen Farrington!)

Antiwar.com editor Scott Horton joins to discuss his new book on the Russian-Ukrainian war. Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online learning platform to take part in weekly podcast seminars, acc...

31 Dec 20241h 37min

Eric Semler is the chairman of Semler Scientific, a company that has followed the Microstrategy playbook by going on a bitcoin standard, and using bitcoin as a reserve cash asset. Enjoyed this episode...

24 Dec 20241h 6min

In this episode, Saifedean reads the first four chapters of his new book, The Gold Standard: An Alternative Economic History of the Twentieth Century. Preorder your copy today from saifedean.com/TGS, ...

17 Dec 202452min

Saifedean introduces his next book, The Gold Standard: an alternative economic history of the twentieth century, where fiat money died in 1915. What would the world look like if we had a gold standar...

10 Dec 202433min

The Yeoman podcast with Geoff Graham hosts Saifedean Ammous, Austin Tunnel, and Jaime Izurieta-Varea to discuss the relationship between easy money and architecture. Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifed...

3 Dec 20241h 20min

Anjan Katta has built the Daylight computer, a low-time-preference, paper-like full function computer that's easy on your eyes and great for outdoor use. Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online ...

26 Nov 20241h 17min

Mick the founder of Geyser Fund crowd-funding platform, joins us to discuss his journey down the bitcoin rabbit hole and how bitcoin helps crowdfunding. Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online ...

19 Nov 20241h 7min

Dr. Saifedean Ammous discusses the history of interest lending and the economic explanations for it, culminating in the Austrian time preference theory of interest rates, which he uses to propose an o...

12 Nov 202443min