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Mises Private Seminar with Robert Murphy
Mises Private Seminar with Robert Murphy is a free lecture series (3 recordings, 2.5 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with Robert P. Murphy.
Murphy applies Austrian economics to the Depression, the business cycle and the Fed. In three lectures from one seminar session for the Mises Institute, he argues government intervention caused and prolonged downturns from the 1930s through the 2008 financial crisis.
Cover painting: gas-masked infantry advance through the burning Bonus Army camp, Capitol beyond, Anacostia Flats, 1932. See every painting in the art gallery.
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Great Myths of the Great Depression
Murphy challenges the standard classroom account of the causes and length of the Great Depression. He blames the 1929 crash on Federal Reserve rate cuts made in 1927, credits Hoover's wage and tax interventions with prolonging the downturn, and argues wartime price controls concealed how weak the wartime recovery was.
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47:25 Download MP3
The Failure of "Stimulus" Policies
Murphy explains why Austrian economists consider monetary and fiscal stimulus counterproductive. He traces how Federal Reserve rate cuts distort interest rates as price signals under Austrian business cycle theory, then critiques Keynesian deficit spending using the 2009 Obama stimulus and Finland's 1990s austerity as evidence.
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58:37 Download MP3
Bernanke and the Dollar
Murphy explains how Federal Reserve money creation debases the dollar, like ancient coin debasement. He traces the end of the gold standard, Greenspan's and Bernanke's rate cuts and asset purchases, and warns that unwinding the Fed's expanded balance sheet risks a future dollar crisis.
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- Is Mises Private Seminar with Robert Murphy free to listen to?
- Yes. All 3 mirrored recordings stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- How long is Mises Private Seminar with Robert Murphy?
- 3 recordings, 2.5 hours in total.
- Who lectures in Mises Private Seminar with Robert Murphy?
- Robert P. Murphy.
- Is there a transcript of Mises Private Seminar with Robert Murphy?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 23,194 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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