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Mark Thornton · 197 episodes with transcripts

Succinct economic commentary by Dr. Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Mises Institute.

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The Empire Has No Clothes

October 17, 2026

Mark Thornton (0:02)

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Minor Issues Podcast. I'm Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute. The most important component of social and political reform is for the general population to know what's actually happening and to be able to see through government propaganda and its extreme nationalistic…

Opinion polling finds an all-time low for trusting the US government, less than 20 percent compared to nerlet 80 percent during the gold standard era.

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