Showing posts with label Mark Thornton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Thornton. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Quote of the Day: Prohibition Is The Major Cause Of Crime

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Austrian economist Mark Thornton in an interview with the Daily Bell Prohibition is the major cause of crime. There are the crimes asso...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Mark Thornton: How Smugglers Made America

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I’ve been saying here that smuggling represents “the unintended consequence of economic and financial repression that constitutes part of ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Video: Mark Thornton on How Silver Money Kept Inflation in Check

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From the Mises Blog Much of the history of Philippine money has been in commodity: gold/silver. This is until the US Congress enacte...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Video: Mark Thornton on Real Economic Growth versus Statistical Economic Growth

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"Don't be fooled by GDP (3:17)...you've got to be leery of statistics (4:14)"
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Video: Mark Thornton on the Unintended Economic Consequences of NSA Spying

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Austrian economist Mark Thornton explains of the unintended consequences from National Security Agency's (NSA) rampant spying  (Sou...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Mark Thornton on How to Read Mises

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Interested to learn more about the contributions of the leader of the Austrian school of economics, the late great Ludwig von Mises?  A...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Video: Mises Institute's Mark Thornton on the US "Government Shutdown"

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Mises Institute's Senior Fellow and Professor Mark Thornton clarifies the sensationalism over the alleged "government shutdown&quo...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Does China’s Dubai Project Flop Signify as Signs of the Skyscraper Curse?

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More signs of the China’s imploding property bubble.  From the AFP (including above photo) It was billed as China's Dubai: ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Quote of the Day: Why Regulation Does Not Work

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Regulations do not make markets safer, more efficient, or work better for consumers in anything but a superficial sense. Regulation only p...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Failure of Alcohol Bans in the Muslim World

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I have been saying here that prohibition statutes are noble sounding “feel good” political actions that fails to accomplish their goals (in ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

War on Drugs: US Authorities Launder Drug Money, Corruption Risk Increases

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In the war on drugs, the dividing line between prosecuting criminals and becoming part of the crime becomes indistinct From the New York T...