Albany lawmakers want to raise the wage floor again, and index it to inflation. The state's constant interventions will destroy jobs and perhaps whole ...

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11.01.2025

Dynamia, Not Stagnatia | The Daily Economy

Specialized labor and freely shifting markets result in creative destruction, but also mutual enrichment. Where would you want to live?

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11.01.2025

'Asian Drama': Gunnar Myrdal's Flawed Masterpiece | The Daily Economy

The economist's disdain for dogma and appetite for nuance led him to warn "scholars possess an illusion of knowledge worse than ignorance."

American Institute for Economic Research

11.01.2025

Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs | The Daily Economy

Productivity means learning to do more work with less labor. The only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.

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11.01.2025

Modern Monetary Theory and the Challenge of Endogenous Money Supply | The Daily Economy

The Fed's balance sheet, and its influence, remain enormous. A lighter touch at the top would allow more flexibility in the economy.

American Institute for Economic Research

11.01.2025

Protectionism and the Fallacy of Composition | The Daily Economy

Protectionism can't enrich the country as a whole, only boost certain individuals and industries while impoverishing the rest.

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11.01.2025

Is There Hope in Politics? | The Daily Economy

Political avarice, sanctioned robbery, coercive control: such is the nature of government, and always has been. We already know the cure.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

'Greedflation' Claims Distract, Drive Policy in the Wrong Direction | The Daily Economy

Blaming producers for higher prices obscures true policy failures and economic bad actors — perhaps deliberately.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Prime Minister Trudeau's Departure in Canada Opens Possibilities for Crypto

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he'd step down as prime minister and his party's leader, opening the chance for a crypto supporter to replace him.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

China’s Drunken Population Policies | The Daily Economy

Heavy-handed central planners want to control individual lives by treating them like lifeless statistics. The results are nothing short of disastrous.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Trump reportedly considering important alteration to tariff plans

President-elect Donald Trump is considering a plan that still would apply tariffs to all nations but narrow the impact.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Stop Blaming Algorithms: Political Scapegoats Won't Fix Housing Problems | The Daily Economy

Blaming landlords and pricing software for high housing costs may be good politics, but it is bad economics. And it won't make rents more affordable.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs | The Daily Economy

Tariffs can't bring back jobs and raise significant revenue at the same time. In fact, they're unlikely to do either.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Starbucks Baristas Were Secretly Recording Co-Workers. But a Court Says It was Illegal to Fire Them | The Daily Economy

The pair claimed they couldn't be fired, even when they were hostile to customers and secretly recorded their supervisors. Unfortunately, a Circuit cou ...

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Pharmaceutical Middlemen Face Lawmaker Scrutiny | The Daily Economy

More than 25 percent of the federal budget is spent on health care. Endless government intervention, however well-intentioned, rewards lobbyists and distort ...

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10.01.2025

Has Generation Z Gotten a Raw Economic Deal? | The Daily Economy

Young people are struggling with high car and home prices, but still live better than their peers of the past. Perhaps lifestyle choices are driving their d ...

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10.01.2025

Nation-States, Central Banks Expected to Buy BTC in 2025: Fidelity Digital Assets

Rising inflation, currency debasement and growing fiscal deficits will push countries to make strategic bitcoin allocations, the report said.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Banning TV Drug Ads Would Have Serious Unintended Consequences | The Daily Economy

Drug ads make pharma companies compete for patients as buyers. Introducing more new drugs faster helps make US health care the global standard.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Why Are There No Trillion-Dollar Companies in Europe? | The Daily Economy

Large companies don't just happen. They are born, fostered, and grown in low-tax, high-opportunity societies.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Dollar's (DXY Index) Path Is Tracking Donald Trump's First Presidential Term: Van Straten

The DXY index is up over 3% since the election and is following a trajectory similar to his first presidential term.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Co-opting Capitalism: From Value Creation to Virtue Signaling | The Daily Economy

Attempts to push a "moral mission" onto business subverts the actual goal: creating goods, services, and investment returns.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Does Educational Philanthropy Harm Liberal Society? It's Complicated | The Daily Economy

Private funding of education can be a powerful force for change, but philanthropists' motives — and their methods — do matter.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Biden Expanded Executive Power to Kill the US Steel-Nippon Merger | The Daily Economy

In an increasingly interconnected global economy, clinging to outdated protectionist measures is a losing strategy.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

Mortgage rates start 2025 near 7%, hitting highest level since July

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6.91% to start the new year.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.01.2025

The Problem With Retaliatory Protectionism | The Daily Economy

Whether subsidizing our own producers or punishing those abroad, tariffs inevitably become handouts to the politically powerful.

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10.01.2025

The Unintended Consequences of US Intervention in Libya | The Daily Economy

As in many cases, the United States would be better off having done nothing than triggering such a calamitous descent into violent chaos.

American Institute for Economic Research

26.11.2024

Financialization and Missed Boats | AIER

When Mythology Papers over Reality

American Institute for Economic Research

22.11.2024

The State of Competitive Federalism | AIER

We face a mixed picture for the recovery of competitive federalism.

American Institute for Economic Research

22.11.2024

Building a Better Fed Framework | AIER

Join the American Institute for Economic Research at our inaugural Monetary Conference.

American Institute for Economic Research

13.11.2024

CBDCs Undermine Financial Privacy | AIER

"Financial privacy is very important for a free society. What we do reveals much more about who we are than what we say." ~William J. Luther

American Institute for Economic Research

13.11.2024

The Economic Consequences of Populism | AIER

The Great Depression Reconsidered

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13.11.2024

Harwood Economic Review: Dispelling Economic Myths | AIER

Our latest issue explores why economic misconceptions persist and the vigilance required to counter them.

American Institute for Economic Research

13.11.2024

AIER Defends Local Control in Key New Hampshire Tax and Education Cases | AIER

AIER has submitted amicus curiae briefs to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the combined cases Rand v. State and ConVal v. State. We took this step becaus ...

American Institute for Economic Research

07.11.2024

Resolutions for the Fiscal New Year | The Daily Economy

"Many lawmakers in DC make resolutions to be more fiscally responsible, but much like our New Year’s resolutions, they rarely follow through." ~Th ...

American Institute for Economic Research

07.11.2024

Two Societies: 'May I Take Your Order?' or 'That's an Order!' | The Daily Economy

"We should want to live in a society where we recognize one another’s right to say 'no, thank you' to an offer — that is to say, a world wher ...

American Institute for Economic Research

07.11.2024

Mexico's Slow-Motion Disaster | The Daily Economy

"The institutional and social checks on majoritarian power are eliminated creating an opportunity for dictatorship, and lifetime rule and enrichment th ...

American Institute for Economic Research

30.10.2024

Supermarket Merger Muddle | The Daily Economy

"Traditional supermarkets have been losing a great deal of market share to those excluded from that definition." ~Gary Galles

American Institute for Economic Research

30.10.2024

How to Make Social Security Reform a Winning Campaign Issue | The Daily Economy

"Price indexing will remove about 80 percent of the unfunded liability gap over the next 75 years, if instituted in 2029." ~David Rose

American Institute for Economic Research

30.10.2024

Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster | The Daily Economy

"Trump's plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality." ~Vanessa Brown Calder

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Crafting a Crisis: The Unseen Impact of Tariffs on Artisans at Home | The Daily Economy

NY Will Raise Minimum Wage and Rate of Business Exodus | The Daily Economy

Dynamia, Not Stagnatia | The Daily Economy

'Asian Drama': Gunnar Myrdal's Flawed Masterpiece | The Daily Economy

Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs | The Daily Economy

Modern Monetary Theory and the Challenge of Endogenous Money Supply | The Daily Economy

Protectionism and the Fallacy of Composition | The Daily Economy

Is There Hope in Politics? | The Daily Economy

'Greedflation' Claims Distract, Drive Policy in the Wrong Direction | The Daily Economy

Prime Minister Trudeau's Departure in Canada Opens Possibilities for Crypto

China’s Drunken Population Policies | The Daily Economy

Trump reportedly considering important alteration to tariff plans

Stop Blaming Algorithms: Political Scapegoats Won't Fix Housing Problems | The Daily Economy

Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs | The Daily Economy

Starbucks Baristas Were Secretly Recording Co-Workers. But a Court Says It was Illegal to Fire Them | The Daily Economy

Pharmaceutical Middlemen Face Lawmaker Scrutiny | The Daily Economy

Has Generation Z Gotten a Raw Economic Deal? | The Daily Economy

Nation-States, Central Banks Expected to Buy BTC in 2025: Fidelity Digital Assets

Banning TV Drug Ads Would Have Serious Unintended Consequences | The Daily Economy

Why Are There No Trillion-Dollar Companies in Europe? | The Daily Economy

Dollar's (DXY Index) Path Is Tracking Donald Trump's First Presidential Term: Van Straten

Co-opting Capitalism: From Value Creation to Virtue Signaling | The Daily Economy

Does Educational Philanthropy Harm Liberal Society? It's Complicated | The Daily Economy

Biden Expanded Executive Power to Kill the US Steel-Nippon Merger | The Daily Economy

Mortgage rates start 2025 near 7%, hitting highest level since July

The Problem With Retaliatory Protectionism | The Daily Economy

The Unintended Consequences of US Intervention in Libya | The Daily Economy

Financialization and Missed Boats | AIER

The State of Competitive Federalism | AIER

Building a Better Fed Framework | AIER

CBDCs Undermine Financial Privacy | AIER

The Economic Consequences of Populism | AIER

Harwood Economic Review: Dispelling Economic Myths | AIER

AIER Defends Local Control in Key New Hampshire Tax and Education Cases | AIER

Resolutions for the Fiscal New Year | The Daily Economy

Two Societies: 'May I Take Your Order?' or 'That's an Order!' | The Daily Economy

Mexico's Slow-Motion Disaster | The Daily Economy

Supermarket Merger Muddle | The Daily Economy

How to Make Social Security Reform a Winning Campaign Issue | The Daily Economy

Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster | The Daily Economy

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