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12/5/25 Mark Thornton on the Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve

12/5/25 Mark Thornton on the Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve

Update: 2025-12-11
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Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute joins the show to talk about the state of the economy, the boom bust cycle and why anybody—left, right, and center—who cares about the wellbeing of the working class needs to oppose the existence of the Federal Reserve.


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Mark Thornton is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. His most recent book is The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century. Follow him on Twitter @DrMarkThornton


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12/5/25 Mark Thornton on the Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve

12/5/25 Mark Thornton on the Boom Bust Cycle and the Federal Reserve

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