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Why Your Bigger Paycheck Feels Like Less Money

2026-07-09

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2026-07-09

You earn more than your parents did, maybe significantly more. Yet, somehow, the life they built—the house, the retirement account, the sense of getting ahead—feels further away than ever.

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Manufactured debate: How coordinated networks are hijacking European news comment sections

2026-07-09

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2026-07-09

A joint Eurovision News Spotlight investigation finds bot networks, fake accounts and coordinated campaigns targeted the comment sections of European public broadcasters – with the Iranian political landscape at the centre. A joint investigation by European public service broadcasters has uncovered systematic manipulation of news comment sections on Instagram and Facebook – spanning bot-driven hate …

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Cronyism and Regulatory Capture

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

As AI becomes a more important and visible part of our lives, the movement to regulate it also grows. The standard regulation narratives—that government regulates things in the name of the public interest—clearly do not fit the facts.

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So entwickeln sich Bitcoin, Ripple & Co am Nachmittag am Kryptomarkt

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Der Bitcoin-Kurs zeigt sich am Nachmittag gegenüber dem Vortag schwächer. Um 17:11 fällt Bitcoin 2,67 Prozent auf 61.631,65 US-Dollar. Gestern stand der Kurs noch bei 63.322,10 US-Dollar.

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Appendix 2: On the Term “Liberalism”

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Mises defends his use of the word: true liberalism is defined by private ownership of the means of production, and he explains why he keeps the name despite its distorted modern usage.

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What the US soul means for the economy, and football

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday we look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. As the United States turns 250-years-old, the Swiss media is debating what the country stands for and what … Continue reading »

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Appendix 1: On the Literature of Liberalism

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Mises's guided reading list of the essential works of liberal thought, from Hume, Smith, and Bentham onward, for readers who want to study the tradition in depth.

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Chapter 5: The Future of Liberalism

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Mises argues that modern civilization rests on liberalism and capitalism, and can be destroyed only from within—by the spread of antiliberal ideas, not by any outside enemy.

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Chapter 4: Liberalism and the Political Parties

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Why liberalism differs from interest-based parties, the crisis of parliamentary government, and the misleading charge that liberalism is merely the “party of capital.”

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Chapter 3: Liberal Foreign Policy

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Liberalism applied to world affairs: national self-determination, free trade and freedom of movement as the foundations of peace, and critiques of nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism.

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Chapter 2: Liberal Economic Policy

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

The economic case for private property and the free market, including the impracticability of socialism, the failures of interventionism, and the problems of cartels, monopoly, and bureaucracy.

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Chapter 1: The Foundations of Liberal Policy

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

The first principles of liberal politics—private property, freedom, peace, and equality before the law—with a critique of the doctrine of force, fascism, and the proper limits of government.

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Introduction

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Mises defines liberalism as a program for material welfare grounded in reason, ties it to capitalism, and examines the psychological roots of antiliberal resentment.

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Preface to the English-Language Edition

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Ludwig von Mises’s preface to the English edition: what classical liberalism is, why its program rests on private property, and how “liberal” came to mean nearly its opposite in America.

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Foreword to Liberalism

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Tom Woods frames Ludwig von Mises's book around a single question—when the state may legitimately initiate force—and the classical liberal’s insistence on a very high threshold for it.

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The War System

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

"The main aim of American foreign policy is to impose the will of our ruling elite on the rest of the world."

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The Economics and Ethics of Interest Rates

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Aristotle called interest unnatural. Aquinas called it unjust. For centuries, the Church banned it. Guido Hülsmann argues they were wrong about the free market—but accidentally right about the fiat system.

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Switzerland against global over-regulation of AI, says minister

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Switzerland is in favour of international governance of artificial intelligence (AI), but of a “minimal” kind, the country’s communications minister has said. Albert Rösti also said he wants to see “concrete results” at a global AI summit planned for Geneva next June. “It is up to the UN to establish a minimum framework for the …

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Renewed War Roils Markets

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

There is one overreaching development that is driving the capital markets today. War. Hostilities between the US and Iran have intensified. At the NATO summit in Türkiye, President Trump has said the ceasefire is over. Oil prices have jumped. Benchmark bond yields have risen and stocks sold. The dollar itself is mixed in the G10 …

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Is This Country Having Its Socialist Moment?

2026-07-08

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2026-07-08

Democratic socialist candidates are becoming a serious political challenge in Democratic Party primaries. Have Americans suddenly become convinced by the arguments in favor of command economies, or is there something deeper going on?

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