Mark Thornton reviews David Howden’s commodity playbook for long-term investors.
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Succinct economic commentary by Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute.
Gold and silver make sense—until government “helps.”
The compliance-driven health regime sidelines decentralized knowledge and choice.
Mark Thornton shows why real conservation comes from property rights and prices, not bureaucratic targets.
Mark Thornton walks through Ludwig von Mises’s three stages of inflation, gold/crypto and de-dollarization signals, and what it takes to step off before the crash.
Black swans don’t cause crashes: they reveal them. Mark Thornton shows how easy money breeds “sequestered capital” in opaque assets, priming the next bust.
Red + green = brown. Mark Thornton shows how towering debt and easy money set the stage for hyperinflation.
Hoppe is an exacting analyst of what works, not an architect of upheaval.
Charlie Kirk blames cannabis for social decay, but Mark Thornton shows it’s Progressive policies, not personal liberty, that fuel addiction, welfare dependence, and urban breakdown.
Every August, central bankers gather in Jackson Hole to “save” the economy by the same magic tricks that broke it.
Mark Thornton dives into the misunderstood world of precious metal premiums.
Inflation isn’t a mystery. It’s a racket. Politicians spend. The Fed prints. You pay.
Trump wants rate cuts. Is Powell stalling for the dollar’s sake, or his own?
The origination of money is a ground shaking, mind altering realization of how the world works.
Before Bitcoin, there was Hayek. In the 1970s, he warned that state-controlled money leads to inflation, instability, and political plunder. His fix? Competing currencies.
They promised peace. What we got was another step toward global war and economic ruin. Mark Thornton isn’t buying the excuses.
Mark Thornton warns that the US isn’t heading for a soft landing, it’s drifting into Mises’s crack-up boom.
Mark Thornton breaks down Murray Rothbard’s theory of interventionism: why free markets lift all boats, and government meddling sinks them.
