Interviewed by Emil Franzi on AM 1030 KVOI’s “Inside Track” program in Tuscon, 25 May 2013, Mark Thornton discusses some of the economic concepts revolving around the ideas of a free
Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton talks about alternative currencies, the history of U.S. monetary policy, and the recent rise in interest for the Austrian school of
David Howden is interviewed on the GoldMoney show with Andy Duncan. “Howden thinks that the Euro will hold together in the short term, but he is rather pessimistic on the long term outlook of the common currency. One at a time countries which were formerly regarded as “stable” are being dragged into the debt hole. Though he assesses the problems
Thorsten Polleit delivered a speech at the Austrian Economics Research Conference entitled “The Gold Standard That Never Was.” Thorsten was interviewed by GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan. The speech is discussed in this podcast . The conditions that he sees as being necessary for a gold standard to be compatible with free market principles are discussed.
The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological phenomenon whereby hostages develop irrational sympathy toward their captors even to the point of defending their captors in subsequent investigations and criminal trials. While this applies to individuals or small groups, the Oslo syndrome applies to whole national populations. In The Oslo Syndrome:
Public opinion now favors the outright legalization of marijuana with nearly three-out-of-four adults in favor of legalizing medical marijuana . These numbers should continue to grow, because the polls exhibit a type of “generation effect,” in that people are not changing their minds as they grow older. Some prominent and diverse figures, such as
President Barack Obama is famous for many things, including two best-selling autobiographical books. In those books, he openly admitted to using illegal drugs as a young man, specifically marijuana. So, one would think that he would be amenable to reforming drug laws and sentencing guidelines, or even legalizing marijuana. Instead he has been
Slate reports in an article titled “Not That High: Today’s marijuana is too strong, and that’s bad for new business,” that the potency of marijuana is now “too high.” Writer Emma Marris’s brother is a professional chemist who tests the composition and potency for growers and medical marijuana dispensaries. Based on the information she obtained
[Mark Thornton is available for interviews. Send him email. ] The new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a good movie, but it is no indictment against capitalism, as some may contend. It is rather an implicit condemnation of government prohibition. When I read the book in high school I did not like it. I found it hard to read,
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