On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Dr. Jonathan Newman recent economics headlines, including interventions to prop up the yen, a bad jobs report, and troubling signs in bond markets.
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Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics
The Illegal Constitutional Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution has been the basis of numerous Supreme Court decisions, yet there is a compelling case for its never having been legally ratified. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines those claims.
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The Fed’s Confidence Game: Gold, Debt, and What Comes Next
Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute joins VRIC Media to discuss what may really be driving Federal Reserve policy—and why the Fed’s priorities may have far more to do with government debt, financial markets, and confidence in the dollar than simply controlling inflation.
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Jeff Deist interview with Scott Horton
As my friends, clients and readers already know, I always tend to look at the world, despite its many problems, threats and disappointments, though an optimistic lens. However, even for a terminally glass-half-full kind of guy like myself, it is getting harder and harder to see the bright side given the state of affairs over the last years. It appears we going from one manufactured crisis to the next, and at each turn, more of our liberties are...
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Ahoy! Ahoy! The Telephone, Entrepreneurship, and Cronyism
Our history books tell us about how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. They don’t tell us that his company then successfully got the government to grant it monopoly powers, thus harming consumers and stifling technological innovation for nearly a century.
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The Return of Economic Gaslighting
Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy.
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Has Trump Already Lost the War with Iran?
Months ago, the administration said the war's goals were regime change and the removal of all uranium from Iran. We never hear about that anymore because the war has failed to produce either goal. Instead, Trump calls for opening the Strait of Hormuz, which had been open before the war.
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The Liberalization of Holidays and the Ownership of Time
Everyone loves to have time off, but what happens when governments force people not to work against their will?
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The Prussians Who Built Prussia
The stereotype of the Prussian as the militaristic, state-loving creature probably needs to be rethought. The history of Prussia and its people is more complicated than contemporary historians wish to admit.
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If Markets Are Booming, Why Are You Struggling?
Mises Institute’s Mark Thornton joins Lynette Zang to break down why financial markets can boom while everyday Americans continue to struggle. They discuss the AI-driven market surge, rising debt, distorted markets, declining purchasing power, and why the difference between owning real money and relying on a financial system built on debt matters now more than …
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The Imaginary World of Fed “Independence”
The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong.
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The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling the Family’s Will to Reproduce
As the birthrate falls in the US and other industrialized countries, we find that government intervention into the economy and family life is a big reason this is happening.
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Will Money Matter in an Economy That Is Significantly More Productive?
In a recent interview with The Economist, Elon Musk boldly contended that “money won’t matter in 2036.” He doesn’t understand money’s role.
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The Return of Economic Gaslighting
Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy.
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“The ingredients are coming together for a US financial crisis”
"Trying to defer America’s fiscal reckoning by monkeying with debt instruments is the trick used by broken hegemons through the ages. It is a Faustian pact."
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How the First World War Destroyed the Gold Standard
The ordinary people of Europe, so devastated by the shells of the First World War, would again be victimized by the new inflationary national currencies that would destroy savings and investment across the European middle class.
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Mark Thornton Joins Capitalcosm to Discusses Gold, Inflation, and Interest Rates
Mises Institute senior fellow Mark Thornton joins Capital Cosm to discuss what rising gold and silver prices, stubborn long-term interest rates, and growing pressure on the dollar may be signaling about the economy. Thornton explains how monetary inflation, government debt, and changing global demand for the dollar are reshaping financial markets—and why sound economic thinking …
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Freedom of Speech Dying a Slow Death in Europe
By branding censorship as “safety,” surveillance as “protection,” and political conformity as “civic duty,” European states have constructed a system where dissent is pathologized and criminalized. The UK is following the same dystopian path.
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: is stable 0.0 billion francs compared to the previous week
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Household wealth in 2025
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Heads up for NZD and CHF traders, RBNZ Gov Breman and SNB Chair Schlegel to speak
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Swiss franc appreciation has led to tighter monetary conditions – SNB minutes
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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