With a record-height tower and a flooded credit system: 2026 may be when the curse returns.
Minor Issues
Succinct economic commentary by Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
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.
Four interviews in one cut: gold’s whiplash, ballooning debt, and what it all means for your wallet.
Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story.
Prohibition and power descend from above. Real reform rises from below.
Mark Thornton reviews David Howden’s commodity playbook for long-term investors.
Gold and silver make sense—until government “helps.”
The compliance-driven health regime sidelines decentralized knowledge and choice.
Mark Thornton shows why real conservation comes from property rights and prices, not bureaucratic targets.
