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.
Minor Issues
Succinct economic commentary by Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
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.
Mark Thornton walks through Ludwig von Mises’s three stages of inflation, gold/crypto and de-dollarization signals, and what it takes to step off before the crash.
Black swans don’t cause crashes: they reveal them. Mark Thornton shows how easy money breeds “sequestered capital” in opaque assets, priming the next bust.
Red + green = brown. Mark Thornton shows how towering debt and easy money set the stage for hyperinflation.
