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The Intra-Austrian Debate over Milei and the Central Bank
Episode 529

The Intra-Austrian Debate over Milei and the Central Bank

The Human Action Podcast · Mises Institute

December 8, 2025

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Show Notes

This week, Bob walks through two related debates: Hoppe’s criticism of Argentina's President Milei for not immediately closing Argentina’s central bank, and the follow-up exchange between Guido Hülsmann and Philipp Bagus on Mises.org over dollarization and the peso. Along the way, he reviews Mises’s distinctions among commodity, credit, and fiat money, the concepts of money substitutes and fiduciary media, and the interesting structure of Argentina’s short-term central bank debt

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Central BanksFinancial MarketsMoney and Banks