# Mark Thornton

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Will AI Bonds Doom Humanity?

Mark Thornton opens with a recap of inflation, commodity prices, interest rates, and stagnant real wages before turning to “bubble bonds”: the explosion of borrowing by AI hyperscalers to finance data centers, chips, and infrastructure with assets whose useful lives may be far shorter than the bond…

Will AI Bonds Doom Humanity?

Mark Thornton opens with a recap of inflation, commodity prices, interest rates, and stagnant real wages before turning to “bubble bonds”: the explosion of borrowing by AI hyperscalers to finance data centers, chips, and infrastructure with assets whose useful lives may be far shorter than the bond…

Central Banks No Longer Trust Each Other: The Global Rush To Gold | Mark Thornton

Mark Thornton called the housing bubble in 2004. For four years, he was told he was wrong. He now says every paper-dollar asset you own is facing a very difficult future, and the AI buildout is the clearest warning sign he has seen since.In this interview with Jeremy Szafron, the Mises Institute se…

Debt, War, and the Tangled Web

Mark Thornton opens with Sir Walter Scott’s famous “tangled web” line, using John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and Richard Cantillon’s response to frame today’s financial disorder: national debt, a bond bear market, dollar manipulation, trade war, stock-market fragility, and overseas conflicts.  Downlo…

Debt, War, and the Tangled Web

Mark Thornton opens with Sir Walter Scott’s famous “tangled web” line, using John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and Richard Cantillon’s response to frame today’s financial disorder: national debt, a bond bear market, dollar manipulation, trade war, stock-market fragility, and overseas conflicts. Downl…

Debt, War, and the Tangled Web

Mark Thornton opens with Sir Walter Scott’s famous “tangled web” line, using John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and Richard Cantillon’s response to frame today’s financial disorder: national debt, a bond bear market, dollar manipulation, trade war, stock-market fragility, and overseas conflicts. Downl…

Your Kids Are Already Communists, and College Will Make It Worse | Mark Thornton

Dr. Mark Thornton argues that America’s schools and universities have spent 150 years quietly instilling a collectivist ideology, and that the real problem isn’t declining test scores but a progressive worldview baked in from kindergarten up. Drawing on Bastiat, Mises, and South Carolina history, h…

#415 Dr. Mark Thornton: The Bond Market Is Flashing a Warning Nobody in Washington Wants to Fix

Dr. Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, joins Julia to explain why the bond market is the pivotal story right now. The 10- and 30-year Treasury yields are back above 5%, the national debt is over $40 trillion, and deficits are running at about $2 trillion a year. Thornton argues th…

Market Coiling

Mark Thornton examines whether the precious metals market is coiling after last year’s push, this year’s correction, and months of volatility driven by war news, Fed policy, the dollar, and CPI concerns. He lays out six factors shaping the market: refining bottlenecks, metals flowing east, stacker …

Market Coiling

Mark Thornton examines whether the precious metals market is coiling after last year’s push, this year’s correction, and months of volatility driven by war news, Fed policy, the dollar, and CPI concerns. He lays out six factors shaping the market: refining bottlenecks, metals flowing east, stacker …