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Why Your Bigger Paycheck Feels Like Less Money
14+ hour, 22+ min ago (359+ words) 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. You're not imagining it. Something is actually broken. To understand why…...
Books for Students. T-Shirt for You!
4+ hour, 2+ min ago (202+ words) Every donor of $100 or more gets our limited edition 40th Anniversary Mises University T-shirt! Donors" names will be prominently displayed on the Honor Roll during Mises University. Plus, the 2026 Mises University official T-shirt! While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles…...
How Adam Smith Helped Create Modern Unionism
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (459+ words) The "strike in detail" exposed the asymmetry. Unions could target employers one by one while workers in competing firms remained employed and subsidized the strikers. Hutt's example from Barnsley linen weavers shows the tactic plainly: factories were to be struck…...
Fireworks for the Regime: What July 4th Actually Celebrates
4+ hour, 39+ min ago (150+ words) Every July 4th, politicians climb podiums, flags wave, a hundred million dollars" worth of fireworks scatter across the sky, and somewhere between the hot dogs and the stadium-rock anthems, it becomes easy to confuse the theater of freedom with the substance…...
Is This Country Having Its Socialist Moment?
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (173+ words) 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? Read the article here: https: //mises. org…...
The War System
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (114+ words) "The main aim of American foreign policy is to impose the will of our ruling elite on the rest of the world." Original article: https: //mises. org/mises-wire/war-system "The main aim of American foreign policy is to impose the…...
The Senate Isn't His Oyster, After All. Graham Platner's Socialist Vessel Turned Out to Be Leaky
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (152+ words) The media tells us that the rape allegations that brought down Graham Platner's Senate campaign just came to light. Actually, the media had those allegations for months, but sat on them to protect Platner's campaign. Original article: https: //mises. org…...
Foreign Investments and the Spirit of Capitalism
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (174+ words) How the Industrial Revolution and foreign investment made some nations rich while others stayed poor, closing with Mises's defense of capitalism'not because capitalists are good people, but because the market economy benefits mankind and safeguards freedom. Foreign Investments and the…...
Profit and Loss, Private Property, and the Achievements of Capitalism
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (131+ words) The crucial difference between physical "capital goods" and "capital" as an accounting concept, and how profit and loss, private property, and economic calculation steer production toward what consumers actually want. Profit and Loss, Private Property, and the Achievements of Capitalism…...
Money, Interest, and the Business Cycle
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (163+ words) The two great confusions about money and interest, from Aristotle's "money cannot beget money" to modern credit expansion, and how monetary manipulation by banks and governments produces inflation and the business cycle. Money, Interest, and the Business Cycle The two…...