Can The Monetary System Regulate Itself?

Presented at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee; 9 March 2009. This video is made available by Art Carden. [51:11]

How High Can the Price of Gold Go?

Brown Bag Seminar; Recorded at the Mises Institute on February 10, 2005. [1:01:20]

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary new film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan is not, we're told, happy about this 42-minute blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie could change America.

(NTSC format for DVD) or (NTSC format for US VCRs)

The Costs of a Gold Standard

Roger W. Garrison talks about The Costs of a Gold Standard at  the Capitol Hill Conference on the Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective in 1983.

The Monetary Writings of Carl Menger

The Monetary Writings of Carl Menger Hans F. Sennholz The Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective

The Founding of The Federal Reserve

Recorded in Houston, Texas; October 27, 1984. [1:04:58]

The Founding of The Federal Reserve

Recorded in Houston, Texas; October 27, 1984. [1:04:58]

Skyscrapers and Business Cycles

Skyscrapers and Business Cycles Mark Thornton Our Enemy, Inflation

The Gold Dollar

The Gold Dollar Llewellyn H. Rockwell. Jr. Our Enemy, Inflation

The Culture of Debt and Despair

The Culture of Debt and Despair Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

The Culture of Debt and Despair

The Culture of Debt and Despair Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

Creating the Next Great Depression

Creating the Next Great Depression Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

Creating the Next Great Depression

Creating the Next Great Depression Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery

A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery

A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

The Founding Fathers of Monetary Destruction

The Founding Fathers of Monetary Destruction Various Artists Depression, Monetary Destruction, and the Path to Sound Money

Does Bernanke Have an Exit Strategy?

Does Bernanke Have an Exit Strategy? Various Artists Depression, Monetary Destruction, and the Path to Sound Money

Smashing Myths and Restoring Sound Money

Smashing Myths and Restoring Sound Money Various Artists Depression, Monetary Destruction, and the Path to Sound Money

Bernanke and Gono: Modern Central Bankers

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010.

Bernanke and Gono: Modern Central Bankers

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010.

The Cultural Upheaval of Loose Money

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

The Cultural Upheaval of Loose Money

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

How Bernanke Is Using the Printing Press to Win Friends and Influence People

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

How Bernanke Is Using the Printing Press to Win Friends and Influence People

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

The Command Economy: Surging Forward into the Past

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes introductory and closing remarks by Douglas E. French.

The Command Economy: Surging Forward into the Past

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes introductory and closing remarks by Douglas E. French.

The Private Supply of Money

The Private Supply of Money, presented by Prorfessor George A. Selgin, author of Good Money, a history of private coinage in Britain during the industrial revolution. He explains that the total privatization of money is not a far-flung idea but rather an

The Private Supply of Money

The Private Supply of Money, presented by Prorfessor George A. Selgin, author of Good Money, a history of private coinage in Britain during the industrial revolution. He explains that the total privatization of money is not a far-flung idea but rather an

The Biggest Lies about Recessions and War

Mark Thornton talks about the Biggest Lies about Recessions and War, at the Prosperity, War & Depression seminar.

Money, Banking and the Current Mess

Money, Banking and the Current Mess Various Artists Economics for High School Students

Money, Banking and the Current Mess

Money, Banking and the Current Mess Various Artists Economics for High School Students

Origins of Money

Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and published in English in 1892, Carl Menger explains that it is not government edicts that create money but instead the marketplace. Individuals decide what the most marketable good is for use as a medium of exchange. “Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy,” Menger wrote, and so it is with deciding what is to be traded as money.

"Money has not been generated by law. In its origin it is a social, and not a state institution. Sanction by the authority of the state is a notion alien to it. "

This is the first time this essay has been in print in more than a century!

Introduction by Doug French

The Nature of Interest

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Ludwig von Mises was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economic thought, a prodigious originator in economic theory, and a prolific author.

War and Inflation: Financing the Empire

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

War and Inflation: Financing the Empire

Phoenix, Arizona; 10 April 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

How the Fed is Retarding Recovery

How the Fed is Retarding Recovery Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

How the Fed is Retarding Recovery

How the Fed is Retarding Recovery Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

Failure in a Keynesian World

The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas; 23 January 2010. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.

Failure in a Keynesian World

The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas; 23 January 2010. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.

Bank Failures: Then and Now

Bank Failures: Then and Now Various Artists Depression, Monetary Destruction, and the Path to Sound Money

10. The Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1833

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

9. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

8. The First Bank of the United States, 1791-1811

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

7. The United States: Bimetallic Coinage

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

6. The Bank of North America

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

5. Revolutionary War Finance

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

4. Private Bank Notes

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

3. Government Paper Money

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.