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Minor Issues — 114 episodes

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Title
1

Printability Matters

2

Major Party Realignment

3

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

4

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

5

The Fed’s New Face, Same Old Game

6

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

7

Two Important Graphs and Rick Rule

8

Chemistry 101

9

Mark Thornton on the “Synthetic Boom”

10

Gold Whiplash and the Petrodollar

11

Central Banks vs. Reality: Gold’s Signal in a War Economy

12

War, Gold, and the Fed’s Next Move

13

The Theory of the Bottom 99%

14

Fiat Inflationary Nightmare: How to Reform the Financial System

15

From Tariffs to Gold: Reading the Regime

16

Markets, Manipulation, and Silver-Stacking

17

Silver Slammed as Trump Nominates New Fed Chair

18

The Division of Labor

19

In the Company of Mavericks: Mark Thornton on the Austrian Comeback

20

Revenge of the Skyscraper Curse

21

History of Hyperinflation

22

Silver’s Growing Pains

23

Underinvested Commodities, Overhyped AI: Reading 2026 the Austrian Way

24

Looking Back and Forth

25

The Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve

26

Early Innings for Gold, Late Stage for Fiat

27

The K-Shaped Economy

28

Metals, Black Swans, and the Next Bust

29

Contagion

30

The Seven Deadly Economic Sins

31

Minor Issues, Major Conversations: Mark Thornton’s Four-Interview Roundup

32

Silver: Manipulation or Fundamentals?

33

Nothing Good Starts at the Top

34

Reading Markets the Austrian Way

35

Silver’s $50 Moment

36

Monetary Metals 101: How Gold and Silver Work in a Free Market

37

Vitamins vs. Technocracy: Lessons from MK-7

38

Silver, Subsidies, and the Green Paradox

39

On the Hyperinflation On-Ramp

40

Black Swans, Sequestered Capital, and the Next Bust

41

The Road to Hyperinflation

42

Hans Hoppe is No Revolutionary

43

Stuck in Jackson Hole

44

Capital Consumption

45

The Great Precious Metal Premium Conspiracy

46

Inflation: True or Out of the Blue

47

Why Jay Powell’s Fed Will Not Cut Interest Rates

48

Who Invented Money?

49

Who Really Invented Bitcoin?

50

The Coming Crack Up Boom

51

Preparing for War

52

The Triumph of Economic Freedom

53

Resurrection of the Skyscraper Curse?

54

The Gold-Silver Ratio

55

Powell, Trump, and the Austrian Business Cycle Time Bomb

56

Prospects for Hyperinflation

57

The Twin Deficits

58

Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century

59

Are Economic Crises and Crashes Inevitable?

60

The Precarious State of the American Economy

61

Extractive Psychology

62

Is Amazon a Union-Busting Leviathan?

63

The Human Trend

64

Tariff Increases vs. Tax Cuts

65

Closing Signs

66

American Satisfaction

67

My Cuban Vacation

68

An Economic Forecast for 2025

69

The French Revolution

70

Legalizing Drugs: How to Make America Great Again

71

Fiscal Folly

72

What Has Government Done to Our World?

73

Gold Is the Answer to Prohibition

74

A View from The Top

75

The Great Political Divide in America

76

Your Kids Are Already Communists, and College Will Make It Worse

77

Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, and John Maynard Keynes Are Wrong!

78

Is the Skyscraper Curse Dead?

79

Old School Economics

80

Past Tense

81

Sri Lanka as a Role Model for the US

82

Techno Unemployment

83

A Tale of Four Cities

84

Inverted, Recessed, and Hung Out to Dry

85

Rushing for the Financial Exits

86

The Oklahoma City Curse, Skyscraper Edition

87

Economic Status Report: AI and the Fed

88

The Montaigne Fallacy

89

Doctor Copper

90

Chokepoints

91

Population

92

The Drug War

93

Free Trade

94

The Prospects of War

95

The Fed vs. the Real Economy

96

Fed Wisdom and the Magnificent Seven

97

Measure 110 and Property Rights

98

What Is Inflation for 2024?

99

Secession

100

2023: A Year Reviewed

101

The Fed Pivot

102

The Oregon Problem

103

Jim Chanos and Stock Markets

104

Seed Corn and Dry Powder

105

Monetary Chaos

106

Separation 101

107

Hometown Entrepreneurs in Mississippi

108

The Data Shutdown—Smokescreen?

109

Touch-and-Go

110

The Producer Price Index

111

Crash Landing

112

Update on Toilet Paper

113

The Dollar is Down

114

The Full Court Press - Hour 1 - March 29, 2022