Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUnderinvested Commodities, Overhyped AI: Reading 2026 the Austrian Way
Episode 135
Mark Thornton appears on Metals and Miners with Gary Bohm. They explore the Federal Reserve's policies, geopolitical impacts, commodity underinvestme…
4 months ago
Looking Back and Forth
Episode 135
The Minor Issues year-end episode: what 2025 really taught us and what 2026 may bring. Mark Thornton revisits tariffs, inflation, metals, and interes…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve
Episode 135
Mark Thornton joins Scott Horton to discuss the state of the economy, the boom-bust cycle, and why anybody—left, right, and center—who cares about th…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Longer, Higher for Longer
Episode 135
Mark Thornton argues that interest is a core price that coordinates time, investment, and growth, and that the Federal Reserve has turned it into an …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Early Innings for Gold, Late Stage for Fiat
Episode 135
In this special mid-week episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton joins Julia LaRoche for a wide-angle tour of the macro landscape, and why gold’s surg…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The K-Shaped Economy
Episode 135
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton takes apart the media’s “K-shaped economy” cliché. He explains the divergence the Austrian way: …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Metals, Black Swans, and the Next Bust
Episode 135
In a special midweek episode of the Minor Issues podcast, Mark Thornton appears on Palisades Gold Radio with Stijn Schmitz. Mark argues that gold’s s…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Contagion
Episode 135
Mark Thornton dissects “contagion” hype and argues it’s not a market pathology. He shows why, in a free market, failures reallocate customers, labor,…
5 months ago
The Seven Deadly Economic Sins
Episode 135
Mark Thornton traces seven headline “problems” back to one engine: monetary inflation. Drawing on Austrian insights, Mark explains how new money dist…
5 months, 1 week ago
Minor Issues, Major Conversations: Mark Thornton’s Four-Interview Roundup
Episode 135
On this marathon episode of Minor Issues, Mark stitches together four recent interviews for a fast-moving tour of today’s economy: why gold spiked wh…
5 months, 2 weeks ago