Twenty-five years ago, Bill Clinton was gearing up to “save” Social Security. The year was 1998, and the national mood was cautiously optimistic. Internet s ...

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13.09.2025

The Social Security Reform Bill Clinton Almost Brought to America | The Daily Economy

Clinton’s plan, inspired by Chile’s pension reform, marked the first time a sitting US president publicly called for personal retirement accounts.

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13.09.2025

From Draining the Swamp to Owning Intel: How the Right Became What It Feared | The Daily Economy

What began as a promise to limit Washington’s power ended with politicians holding seats at corporate boardrooms.

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13.09.2025

Inflation Heats Up in August | The Daily Economy

Inflation is rising compared to its year-over-year pace, nudged along by tariff effects. But Fed officials are expected to cut rates next week, anyway.

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12.09.2025

Confucius and Trump's Department of War | The Daily Economy

The US military's global flailing has little to do with 'defense.' Returning to an accurate label might be a step toward policy realism.

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12.09.2025

AIER’s Everyday Price Index Rises 0.21 Percent in August 2025 | The Daily Economy

Sticky service costs, moderating but still-present tariff effects, and a softening labor market combine to put pressure on the Fed.

American Institute for Economic Research

12.09.2025

Lessons from Google Search Ruling: Markets Evolve, Bureaucrats Don’t | The Daily Economy

In its remedies decision, the court curbed the DOJ’s sweeping demands and largely upheld Google’s position.

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11.09.2025

The Fed’s Mission Creep Under Jerome Powell | The Daily Economy

Former Fed officials are right to worry about the central bank's independence. But they should not be surprised. Under Powell’s leadership, the Fed has ...

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11.09.2025

France's Financial Misery Is a Bad Omen for Other Countries | The Daily Economy

Financial and debt crises aren't so much solved as covered up by political actions aimed at alleviating market anxieties.

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11.09.2025

France’s Financial Misery Is a Bad Omen for Other Countries | AIER

“History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes,” is a famous saying attributed to American author Mark Twain. When you read today’s news about the French gove ...

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11.09.2025

Remaking the Fed: A Look Back at the Banking Act of 1935 | The Daily Economy

Ninety years later, every Fed decision — from raising rates to curb inflation to cutting them in a downturn — still flows through the framework created in 1935.

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10.09.2025

Can the President Assassinate Suspected Criminals? | The Daily Economy

The Constitution is designed to check the power grabs of reckless men. Will Congress and the Courts defend the rule of law against an increasingly lawless e ...

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10.09.2025

Decentralized Defense: How Ukraine's Lean Military Outperforms Expectations | The Daily Economy

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense buys from a competitive market of private firms. The Pentagon could do the same — if it chose innovation over incumbency.

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10.09.2025

One Big, Beautiful Tradeoff for the Fed | The Daily Economy

Raising the debt ceiling takes the Fed out of the reserve volatility frying pan—but may land it in the debt-monetization fire.

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10.09.2025

Can the President Assassinate Suspected Criminals? | AIER

“I don’t give a sh*t what you call it.” So wrote Vice President J.D. Vance in response to journalist Brian Krassenstein, who questioned Vance’s assertion th ...

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09.09.2025

What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money | AIER

In 1956, a trucking entrepreneur named Malcolm McLean did something quietly radical: he placed 58 identical steel boxes onto a cargo ship in Newark and sent ...

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09.09.2025

Escape from New York, 2025 Millionaire Edition | The Daily Economy

NYC's highest earners are fleeing, along with $14 billion in gross income. An evacuating tax base risks taking the city's prestige with it — to Fl ...

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09.09.2025

When Family Firms Meet Market Discipline: a Lesson from 'Tommy Boy' | The Daily Economy

Brands love to market themselves as 'family owned,' but as Tommy Boy comically reminds us, the only guarantee of success is satisfying consumers i ...

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09.09.2025

What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money | The Daily Economy

Stablecoins offer enormous promise for digital commerce if we codify their standard.

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06.09.2025

California’s $10 Million-a-Year STEM Equity Lab Fails to Deliver | The Daily Economy

Collectivist central planning simply cannot engineer individual success. People continue to have their own preferences.

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06.09.2025

Chicago Public Schools Now Have a Junk Credit Rating. What’s Next? | The Daily Economy

As debt service continues to devour an already unsustainable budget, do not expect student learning outcomes to improve.

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06.09.2025

California’s $10 Million-a-Year STEM Equity Lab Fails to Deliver | AIER

In 2018, Democratic lawmakers in California created a new bureaucratic department, in part, to “close equity and achievement gaps” at higher education insti ...

American Institute for Economic Research

05.09.2025

Money Isn't a Measuring Stick — It's a Messenger | The Daily Economy

If a dollar were constant, like an inch or an hour, trade would collapse. A core part of currency's purpose is to contract and expand, signaling scarci ...

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05.09.2025

A Sober Revolution Is Sweeping America — and Markets Are Responding | The Daily Economy

A growing group of alcohol-free consumers, including 40% of Gen-Z, are forcing bars, brewers, and brands to adapt.

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04.09.2025

Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World | AIER

Earth is going to hit “peak population” before the end of this century. Within 25 years, most of the world’s developed nations will be facing sharp populati ...

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04.09.2025

Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World | The Daily Economy

Climate panic and coercive family planning created a new global crisis: shrinking, aging societies headed for demographic disaster.

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04.09.2025

Coffee Business: Beans, Houses, and the Great Enrichment | The Daily Economy

From the Ottoman Empire to the modern Starbucks, coffee seems to power entrepreneurship and innovation.

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04.09.2025

Ivory Tower Debt Trap: Student Loans Distort the American Dream | The Daily Economy

The ROI on college is plunging. Colleges are failing to educate, and instead loading kids up with unshakable debt and failed ideas.

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04.09.2025

“You’re Fired” — The President, Lisa Cook, and the Fragility of Fed Autonomy | The Daily Economy

Both parties have shown themselves willing to play politics with the Fed when it suits their interests. Neither likes it when the other does.

American Institute for Economic Research

03.09.2025

The Hard Truth About the Abolition of Slavery | The Daily Economy

Guided by Enlightenment principles and Christian teachings, abolitionist leaders confronted slavery despite entrenched economic interests, political pressur ...

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03.09.2025

Texas Trounces California in Energy Production—But the Policy Gap Is Closing | The Daily Economy

Texas’s energy sector outproduces California’s, delivering lower prices and greater reliability. But government meddling threatens to undo many of these ben ...

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03.09.2025

The Hard Truth About the Abolition of Slavery | AIER

British satirist and cultural commentator Konstantin Kisin — author of An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West (2022) — recently shared a debate clip from Do ...

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02.09.2025

Economic Measurement and the Mirage of Exactness | The Daily Economy

Numbers do not speak for themselves. They are framed, spun, and selectively emphasized.

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02.09.2025

Bolivia’s Defeat of Socialism Signals a Continental Realignment | The Daily Economy

Javier Milei’s libertarian surge in Argentina reshaped the political debate in Bolivia, where socialism suffered its worst defeat in two decades.

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02.09.2025

Fed Goes Back to Basics with Framework Revisions | The Daily Economy

The Federal Reserve is scrapping its asymmetric average inflation experiment. Will it help calm markets?

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02.09.2025

Are We Doomed to Repeat Economic History, Even When We Know It? | The Daily Economy

Tariffs, war, fascism... if those in power won't heed warnings, we're all stuck repeating history.

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02.09.2025

Inflation Declined in July | The Daily Economy

The Federal Reserve’s restrictive stance continues to put downward pressure on inflation.

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02.09.2025

'Emergency' Tariffs (Mostly) Struck Down | The Daily Economy

A Federal Circuit Court affirmed the Court of International Trade’s ruling: the President has no authority to extend "trade emergencies."

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02.09.2025

Why 'Eating the Rich' Undermines Everyone’s Prosperity | The Daily Economy

Wealth accumulates where people create value, meaning great fortunes reflect service, not selfishness. That’s why taxing fortunes undermines prosperity.

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02.09.2025

Only Lobbying and Self-Deception Can Keep Tariffs Alive | The Daily Economy

Tariffs exploit humans' self-deception and willful ignorance, making feel-good patriotism into a cover story for rent-seeking, favoritism, and graft.

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The Social Security Reform Bill Clinton Almost Brought to America | AIER

The Social Security Reform Bill Clinton Almost Brought to America | The Daily Economy

From Draining the Swamp to Owning Intel: How the Right Became What It Feared | The Daily Economy

Inflation Heats Up in August | The Daily Economy

Confucius and Trump's Department of War | The Daily Economy

AIER’s Everyday Price Index Rises 0.21 Percent in August 2025 | The Daily Economy

Lessons from Google Search Ruling: Markets Evolve, Bureaucrats Don’t | The Daily Economy

The Fed’s Mission Creep Under Jerome Powell | The Daily Economy

France's Financial Misery Is a Bad Omen for Other Countries | The Daily Economy

France’s Financial Misery Is a Bad Omen for Other Countries | AIER

Remaking the Fed: A Look Back at the Banking Act of 1935 | The Daily Economy

Can the President Assassinate Suspected Criminals? | The Daily Economy

Decentralized Defense: How Ukraine's Lean Military Outperforms Expectations | The Daily Economy

One Big, Beautiful Tradeoff for the Fed | The Daily Economy

Can the President Assassinate Suspected Criminals? | AIER

What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money | AIER

Escape from New York, 2025 Millionaire Edition | The Daily Economy

When Family Firms Meet Market Discipline: a Lesson from 'Tommy Boy' | The Daily Economy

What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money | The Daily Economy

California’s $10 Million-a-Year STEM Equity Lab Fails to Deliver | The Daily Economy

Chicago Public Schools Now Have a Junk Credit Rating. What’s Next? | The Daily Economy

California’s $10 Million-a-Year STEM Equity Lab Fails to Deliver | AIER

Money Isn't a Measuring Stick — It's a Messenger | The Daily Economy

A Sober Revolution Is Sweeping America — and Markets Are Responding | The Daily Economy

Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World | AIER

Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World | The Daily Economy

Coffee Business: Beans, Houses, and the Great Enrichment | The Daily Economy

Ivory Tower Debt Trap: Student Loans Distort the American Dream | The Daily Economy

“You’re Fired” — The President, Lisa Cook, and the Fragility of Fed Autonomy | The Daily Economy

The Hard Truth About the Abolition of Slavery | The Daily Economy

Texas Trounces California in Energy Production—But the Policy Gap Is Closing | The Daily Economy

The Hard Truth About the Abolition of Slavery | AIER

Economic Measurement and the Mirage of Exactness | The Daily Economy

Bolivia’s Defeat of Socialism Signals a Continental Realignment | The Daily Economy

Fed Goes Back to Basics with Framework Revisions | The Daily Economy

Are We Doomed to Repeat Economic History, Even When We Know It? | The Daily Economy

Inflation Declined in July | The Daily Economy

'Emergency' Tariffs (Mostly) Struck Down | The Daily Economy

Why 'Eating the Rich' Undermines Everyone’s Prosperity | The Daily Economy

Only Lobbying and Self-Deception Can Keep Tariffs Alive | The Daily Economy

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