Will the commercial real estate market become a casualty of the Federal Reserve's tsunamic monetary and interest rate policy?
Minor Issues
Succinct economic commentary by Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
Is Consumer Confidence a reliable indicator of the current economy?
In this week's episode, Mark examines the Chocolate Crisis of 2024. Should chocolate lovers panic?
The inflation news from the Federal Reserve is once again disappointing.
What happens when war shuts down the Strait of Hormuz? What about the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and Baltimore harbor?
Mark links the Global Climate change agenda to the old “Population Bomb” of the 1970s.
Mark shares the latest episode in the Mises Institute's The Costs of the Progressives video series, "The Drug War," which cites Mark's research on the economics of prohibition.
Mark discusses Ludwig von Mises's important contributions to free trade theory.
Mark examines the increasing prospects of global warfare and the catastrophic results.
What will the next wild card be? Mark looks back at some historical examples.
Mark looks at the disconnect between the Fed, the stock market, and the Real Economy.
In this week's episode, Mark takes a quick look back at Fed wisdom in the year 2000 versus 2024.
Mark Thornton talks about the Federal Reserve's Reverse Repo Operations.
Mark Thornton and Rob Taylor discuss the impact of socialist ideology in Oregon when mixed with the partial "decriminalization" of hard drugs.
Mark Thornton compares two definitions of inflation and what this means for policy-makers and the productive population in 2024.
Mark Thornton examines the proposed Congressional compromise spending legislation.
2023 was a great year for the goals and prospects of the Mises Institute, but a very bad year for the State.