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In this episode, Mark looks at the "minor issue" of the value of the dollar. While everything in the economy seems great—including stock markets, price…

While talk of high gas prices is no longer a headline issue, energy economics is still a vitally important aspect of understanding the economy, including the…

Bank reserves are seldom mentioned except in cases of bank runs. The other possible mention is all the interest money the Fed pays to banks simply for holding…

Ryan McMaken and Dr. Mark Thornton cover the state of the dollar as global reserve currency, and why employers are laying off more and more of their highest…

Mark takes a look at the good news on price inflation and why it is better than reported, but probably short-lived. Other statistics are worsening and,…

In this episode, Mark looks at the far away minor issue of the impact of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Even though they have switched from Zim dollars to US…

On Saturday, Dr. Mark Thornton published a 3-minute recording for Minor Issues podcast on The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target. It had the usual honesty, integrity and simplicity readers of the Mises Institute are accustomed, with the introduction reading: Mark Thornton explains the target as another smokescreen that was originally intended to stabilize monetary policy, currencies,

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Position in the world, crimea, will it attack crimea, perhaps they could make progress from the states perspective, minor issues. but from the familys perspective immensely important issues to get loved ones out of russia, accused, they say, on false charges. here i can say that security is very tight. there is meritime patrols. lots of police and foot soldiers. uniformed officers, some of them carrying weapons. so it is certainly not a tense environment, but this is a city that hosted many dipl...

30 days but the big issue here was this so-called container royalty that the shipping companies pay to the union members who actually the guys and men and women offloading the big ships and the containers with things like tvs and shoes and clothing, they get a royalty based on the weight of all of those containers and the shipping companies are looking to try to control costs and increase their profits and the biggest sticking point. in the agreement that they have announced today for the 30-day...