Financial Markets

Debt, tariffs, and money printing: Mark Thornton explains how the policy machine rewires markets, and why metals and commodities react first.

Whatever positive economic changes the Milei government might have made in Argentina, the country is still not attractive for new capital investment.

Great Britain’s economy clearly is underperforming from what it could be. Unfortunately, the damage is self-inflicted and change is not likely in the future, especially with a socialist government.

We now live in a fundamentally altered landscape where old certainties no longer confer fitness.

A historic metals shakeout, a simple “stacking plan,” and a bigger question: how do you stay independent when the system punishes savers?

Consumer confidence is low while Jerome Powell claims he doesn’t care much about the price of precious metals.

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.

Austrian economists have long criticized using mathematics to undergird economic analysis. It is time to apply that same criticism to using math to undergird analysis of financial markets.

The 1929 October stock market crash is one of the most important financial events in US history. Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book gives a close look at the events that shook the nation.