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Mark Thornton

Succinct economic commentary by Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute.

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201 episodes

  1. The West’s Gathering Storm
  2. We Needed Higher Oil Prices
  3. The Empire Has No Clothes
  4. Violent Populism
  5. Market Coiling
  6. Debt, War, and the Tangled Web
  7. Will AI Bonds Doom Humanity?
  8. Whistling Past the Graveyard
  9. Market Theater, Gold, and the AI Bubble
  10. Printability Matters
  11. Austrian Economics, Gold, and the Fed’s Confidence Game
  12. Government Intervention and Economic Inequality
  13. Republican Party Displacement
  14. Gold, Socialism, and the Crisis of the Dollar
  15. Stocks, Manure, Gold, and Socialism: Markets and Bad Ideas
  16. Major Party Realignment
  17. The Dupes of War: Mises on Statism, Propaganda, and Foreign Conflict
  18. The Vine That Ate the South: Government Solutions vs. Market Solutions
  19. Politics as Power: Elites, Inflation, and the Austrian Answer
  20. The Fed’s New Face, Same Old Game
  21. Why Politicians Lie—and How Easy Money Keeps the Boom Alive
  22. Taxpayers vs. Tax-Consumers: Rothbard’s Real Theory of Taxes and Spending
  23. What Adam Smith Left Out of the Pin Factory
  24. War, Easy Money, and the Working-Class Squeeze
  25. Predicting Recession
  26. The Petrodollar Cracks, the Skyscraper Stalls, and the Commodity Firestorm
  27. Two Important Graphs and Rick Rule
  28. Chemistry 101
  29. Mark Thornton on the “Synthetic Boom”
  30. Why War Is Pushing Gold Down and Oil Up
  31. Gold Whiplash and the Petrodollar
  32. Central Banks vs. Reality: Gold’s Signal in a War Economy
  33. War, Gold, and the Fed’s Next Move
  34. The Theory of the Bottom 99%
  35. Iran War Hype, Gold, and the Fed’s Debt Bubble
  36. Fiat Inflationary Nightmare: How to Reform the Financial System
  37. From Tariffs to Gold: Reading the Regime
  38. Four-Letter Economic Words
  39. Markets, Manipulation, and Silver-Stacking
  40. The Giffen Good
  41. Silver Slammed as Trump Nominates New Fed Chair
  42. The Division of Labor
  43. In the Company of Mavericks: Mark Thornton on the Austrian Comeback
  44. Revenge of the Skyscraper Curse
  45. History of Hyperinflation
  46. Silver’s Growing Pains
  47. Underinvested Commodities, Overhyped AI: Reading 2026 the Austrian Way
  48. Looking Back and Forth
  49. The Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve
  50. Longer, Higher for Longer