Is the US riding an “everything bubble” to the next crisis? Mark Thornton joins Paul Buitink to diagnose the dollar, the debt, and the Fed’s distortion machine.
Minor Issues
Succinct economic commentary by Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
Debt, tariffs, and money printing: Mark Thornton explains how the policy machine rewires markets, and why metals and commodities react first.
Seven four-letter words: one clear roadmap for staying productive, solvent, and sane in chaotic times.
A historic metals shakeout, a simple “stacking plan,” and a bigger question: how do you stay independent when the system punishes savers?
Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics.
Mark Thornton presents a timely interview with Elijah K. Johnson that underscores how quickly “melt-ups” can flip into sharp corrections.
Entrepreneurs, prices, and profit-and-loss coordinate the division of labor that makes prosperity possible.
Mark Thornton shares an in-depth interview with Jeremy McKeown on the long rivalry between Austrian and Keynesian economics, and why Austrian ideas may be gaining new traction today.
With a record-height tower and a flooded credit system: 2026 may be when the curse returns.
Hyperinflation isn’t ancient history. It’s a recurring policy failure with war-level damage.
$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.
Mark Thornton appears on Metals and Miners with Gary Bohm and shares Austrian perspectives on 2026's outlook, deflation benefits, and why government intervention fails.
Gold is up, bitcoin is cooling, the yield curve turning. 2026 could un-invert the story.
Mark Thornton appears on the Scott Horton Show to discuss the state of the economy.
Policy-made rates reshape everything: mortgages, bonds, stocks, and commodities.
In this special mid-week episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton joins The Julia LaRoche Show.
The “K-shape” isn’t a mystery. As Mark Thornton explains, it’s Cantillon effects from cheap money and Leviathan.
In a special midweek episode of the Minor Issues podcast, Mark Thornton appears on Palisades Gold Radio with Stijn Schmitz.
Politicians and central bankers invoke "contagion" to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.
Seven “economic sins” share one root: monetary inflation—fueling higher prices, inequality, debt, war, and even moral decay.
