Minor Issues

Mark Thornton

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

Episodes · 25

Market Coiling

Oct 3, 2026

Debt, War, and the Tangled Web

Sep 26, 2026

Will AI Bonds Doom Humanity?

Sep 19, 2026

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Sep 12, 2026

Market Theater, Gold, and the AI Bubble

Sep 5, 2026

Printability Matters

Aug 29, 2026

Austrian Economics, Gold, and the Fed’s Confidence Game

Aug 22, 2026

Government Intervention and Economic Inequality

Aug 15, 2026

Republican Party Displacement

Aug 8, 2026

Gold, Socialism, and the Crisis of the Dollar

Aug 1, 2026

Stocks, Manure, Gold, and Socialism: Markets and Bad Ideas

Jul 25, 2026

Major Party Realignment

Jul 18, 2026

The Dupes of War: Mises on Statism, Propaganda, and Foreign Conflict

Jul 11, 2026

The Vine That Ate the South: Government Solutions vs. Market Solutions

Jul 4, 2026

Politics as Power: Elites, Inflation, and the Austrian Answer

Jun 27, 2026

The Fed’s New Face, Same Old Game

Jun 20, 2026

Why Politicians Lie—and How Easy Money Keeps the Boom Alive

Jun 13, 2026

Taxpayers vs. Tax-Consumers: Rothbard’s Real Theory of Taxes and Spending

Jun 6, 2026

What Adam Smith Left Out of the Pin Factory

May 30, 2026

War, Easy Money, and the Working-Class Squeeze

May 23, 2026

Predicting Recession

May 16, 2026

The Petrodollar Cracks, the Skyscraper Stalls, and the Commodity Firestorm

May 9, 2026

Two Important Graphs and Rick Rule

May 2, 2026

Chemistry 101

Apr 25, 2026

Mark Thornton on the “Synthetic Boom”

Apr 18, 2026