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Back to SearchSilver Slammed as Trump Nominates New Fed Chair
Episode 135
In this special episode, Mark Thornton presents a timely interview with Elijah K. Johnson that underscores how quickly “melt-ups” can flip into sharp…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Political Economy of Pesticides: How to Subsidize a Poison
Will the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) succeed? If the regulatory story of DDT is a prime example of government regulation in action, then the an…
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The Division of Labor
Episode 135
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton explains why the modern discussion of the division of labor is distorted by bad theory and polit…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Fed Does Nothing
Episode 10
Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Tho and Connor to discuss Jerome Powell's favorite type of FOMC meeting: a boring one. No cuts, no concerns, no drama in th…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Surprise! Mamdani Is Governing Like a Socialist
By hiring a communist as his main housing adviser, New York Mayor Zohram Mamdani is fully committed to driving out private ownership of rental proper…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Why the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights transformed the Constitution from one of supreme and total national power to a partially mixed polity where the liberal anti-natio…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Trump’s Embrace of Economic Leftism Will Destroy the Legacy He’s Desperately Trying to Build
Trump is clearly focused on building a legacy in his second term with his domestic vanity projects and dramatic foreign interventions. But his actual…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
We Can Have Unity or We Can Have Freedom. We Can't Have Both.
While unity sounds like a nice thing to have, when it comes to politics and nation-states, experience repeatedly shows that unity is the tool of thos…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State
Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are ex…
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