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Investing in Gold
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Author: Mark Thornton
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Category: Booms and Busts, Economic Freedom, Financial Markets, U.S. Economy
Mark discusses something bigger than the Disney layoffs: the Wall Street Journal ‘s April 25 frontpage article on investing in gold. It would seem that the recent rise of the price of gold is the result of tired, dumb, and disillusioned crypto currency investors throwing in the towel to “chase shiny new object—gold.” Mark explains that the
The Population Explosion Disaster that Never Happened
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Author: Mark Thornton
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Category: Big Government, Bureaucracy and Regulation, Economic Freedom, Economic Policy
I do not hear much talk about world population these days, the way I did growing up in the 1960s and ’70s. People were supposedly starving, dying, with tens of millions more sure to die. The problem back then was that there were just too many, well, people. Population numbers coming out of China and India were unthinkable, and projections
The Goose that laid the Golden Egg
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Author: Mark Thornton
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Category: Economic Freedom, Philosophy, Protectionism and Free Trade
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the “Minor Issues” podcast. I’m Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute. In this week’s episode, I’d like to talk about a brand-new paper of mine. It is on Ludwig von Mises and trade in general and international trade and protectionism. Trade, whether international or just across the street, is the great
Population
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Author: Mark Thornton
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Category: Economic Freedom, Planning, Progressivism
All politics aside, in the modern capitalistic society, population and population growth—or decline—is a matter of choice. We need not worry about running out of resources, land, people, and energy. See also the “Population” episode of the Minor Issues Podcast : Mises.org/Minor64 Subscribe to this monthly podcast at Mises.org/Unanimity . Music: