"The Coasean theory of the firm is noticeably absent from antitrust discussions. Failure to understand that firms arise to lower costs can lead to incorrect conclusions." ~Jon Murphy

American Institute for Economic Research

04.05.2024

The Ratchet Effect on the Fed’s Balance Sheet | AIER

"The ratchet effect has locked us in a world with a massive Fed balance sheet — and the insidious problems of runaway deficit spending and easy bailout monetary expansion that come with it." ~...

American Institute for Economic Research

04.05.2024

Florida’s Faux-Meat Ban Slaughtered Free Enterprise | AIER

"The public interest is served when fraud, deception, and misleading labeling are prevented. Unfortunately, the Florida legislature has gone far beyond this, at the behest of the ranchers’ lobby."...

American Institute for Economic Research

02.05.2024

Take National Security Off Auto-Pilot | AIER

"We have squandered our own scarce resources, bred animosity overseas, and frequently made existing conditions worse." ~Andrew Byers

American Institute for Economic Research

02.05.2024

Failed Proof that Every Vote Counts | AIER

"Many candidates who have vociferously insisted that 'every vote counts' push policies that deny vast numbers of Americans the right to get what they would vote for if given the choice." ~Gary Galles

American Institute for Economic Research

02.05.2024

They Can Afford It! | AIER

"Even companies with unusually high net worth cannot, in fact, afford to pay workers more than those workers contribute to the companies’ bottom lines." ~Donald J. Boudreaux

American Institute for Economic Research

02.05.2024

Stakeholder Statism is Coming | AIER

"ESG follows the trajectory of efforts by the progressive left to replace a free, voluntary, and competitive society... with centrally ordered institutions... to engineer their preferred society."...

American Institute for Economic Research

01.05.2024

Taxpayer Rights Revival in California | AIER

"With inflation shrinking the purchasing power of their dollar and faced with higher tax bills because of 'bracket creep,' taxpayers are starting to push back against wasteful government spending...

American Institute for Economic Research

01.05.2024

A Marxist Economist Explains Why Socialism Could Never Create a PS5 | AIER

"A clip going viral on social media reveals that this marvelous invention could only be produced in a capitalist system." ~Jon Miltimore

American Institute for Economic Research

30.04.2024

Sanders’s 4-Day Week Will Kill Flexible Jobs | AIER

"Many Americans juggle multiple or part-time jobs to make ends meet. This policy would add another layer of complexity and constraint in a market that requires more flexibility, not less." ~Vance Ginn

American Institute for Economic Research

30.04.2024

Weaving Stable Neighborhoods | AIER

"It’s simply unconscionable that so many of us continue to invest our charitable time and treasure into projects that undermine social cohesion rather than building it." ~Rachel Ferguson

American Institute for Economic Research

30.04.2024

Economists’ Advocacy for a Carbon Tax Is Misguided | AIER

"The reality is that bureaucrats and politicians would likely choose a metric aligned with their self-interest or with the interests of those who currently hold power." ~Kenneth W. Costello

American Institute for Economic Research

27.04.2024

Inflation Declined in March, But Remains High | AIER

"Market participants continue to expect the Fed will cut its federal funds rate target this year — just not anytime soon." ~ William J. Luther

American Institute for Economic Research

27.04.2024

The Wasteful Cruelty of “Stakeholder Capital” | AIER

"When institutional investors vote to destroy the wealth of Chevron, they vote to destroy the dreams of single mothers in Wisconsin, pensioners in California, and small business owners in...

American Institute for Economic Research

27.04.2024

US Economic Growth Plunges in First Quarter 2024 | AIER

"Much of the post-COVID economic growth has been built atop the unsustainable pillars of fiscal and monetary stimuli." ~Peter C. Earle

American Institute for Economic Research

27.04.2024

Is Argentine Disinflation Sustainable? | AIER

"Milei’s lack of political support in Congress adds to the uncertainty surrounding his ability to successfully pass deregulatory reforms... it is premature to declare victory on the fiscal and...

American Institute for Economic Research

26.04.2024

The New Zimbabwean ZiG: Sixth Time a Charm? | AIER

"Even the most faithfully implemented commodity-backed money standard is fundamentally predicated on the integrity and competence of its overseers." ~Peter C. Earle

American Institute for Economic Research

26.04.2024

Take the Government Out of GDP | AIER

"Tax revenues are harvested from private citizens by means of coercion and extractive measures... Paying taxes to remain free of incarceration or not face withering financial penalties is hardly...

American Institute for Economic Research

26.04.2024

Bitcoin Mining and Icelandic Bananas | AIER

"Stranded energy and unused electricity are magnets for bitcoin miners, as they take electricity that can’t readily be used for other purposes and turn it into one of the world’s most liquid and...

American Institute for Economic Research

25.04.2024

Parity in Labor Transparency | AIER

"If workers are going to grant a labor union the extensive powers over them that federal law has authorized, workers should be able to know whether the 'coworkers' advocating the union are paid...

American Institute for Economic Research

24.04.2024

Will Caitlin Clark Be Grossly Underpaid? | AIER

"There simply isn’t enough demand for seats at, merchandise related to, and streaming of women’s sports to support WNBA players at NBA salaries." ~Art Carden

American Institute for Economic Research

24.04.2024

Why Even Insiders Underestimate Markets’ Power | AIER

"There tend to be more and better substitution possibilities known to both buyers and sellers than we recognize from the outside of those exchange relationships." ~Gary M. Galles

American Institute for Economic Research

24.04.2024

A Better Model Won’t Fix The Fed | AIER

"The whole point of expectations-responsive monetary policy is to remove the discretionary and technocratic elements from central banking. Disappointingly but unsurprisingly, the Fed is doing the...

American Institute for Economic Research

23.04.2024

Competition Can’t Be Perfect | AIER

"Since if something is perfect, it must be desirable, a new generation of attorneys is attempting a wholesale takeover of antitrust enforcement." ~Michael Munger

American Institute for Economic Research

23.04.2024

Breaking the Shackles of Socialism in Africa | AIER

"A new generation of Africans (Wade labels them the Cheetah Generation) are rejecting socialism and embracing entrepreneurship and markets as the path to human flourishing." ~Marcus Witcher

American Institute for Economic Research

20.04.2024

Business Conditions Monthly February 2024 | AIER

"Amidst mixed economic data reminiscent of most of the past two years, there are pockets of strength which are nevertheless overshadowed by inflation concerns and speculation regarding monetary...

American Institute for Economic Research

20.04.2024

Why Haven’t We Whipped inflation Yet? | AIER

"The best we can do is recalibrate models when we get new data. But that’s like driving the car while looking out the rearview window...hardly ideal for knowing how to adjust your steering."...

American Institute for Economic Research

20.04.2024

Elon’s X Marks the Spot in Brazil | AIER

"Brazil is facing its greatest struggle for freedom of speech since the end of the military regime... Freedom of speech has been effectively limited without due process, and contrary to the...

American Institute for Economic Research

19.04.2024

ESG Puppeteers | AIER

"Climate financiers are not capitalists. They are corporatists who think the government should direct private industry. They want to work with government officials to benefit themselves and...

American Institute for Economic Research

19.04.2024

Nippon Acquisition of US Steel | AIER

"Despite its shrunken condition, the Japanese suitor looks to infuse new life into this former behemoth with an infusion of cash, technology, and vision. Blocking this acquisition will result in...

American Institute for Economic Research

18.04.2024

The Colorblind Counterattack | AIER

"How on earth could the ideas of Frederick Douglass and MLK find themselves labeled 'white supremacist'? Two authors have shaken off the shellshock, and now stand ready to fight back."...

American Institute for Economic Research

18.04.2024

The Justice of an All-Volunteer Military | AIER

"A person who voluntarily enlists in the military obviously believes that that employment option is the best one for him or her. In exchange for his or her performance of military duties, that...

American Institute for Economic Research

17.04.2024

Business Schools Undermine Wealth Creation | AIER

"Universities promote an obsession with social impact that ignores the vital social impact already accomplished by the realm of private enterprise." ~Kimberlee Josephson

American Institute for Economic Research

17.04.2024

Binder’s Response to Kupiec’s Review of ‘Shock Values’ | AIER

"Each experiment with price controls has been different. I think it is useful to acknowledge that some have been worse than others, and even that some consequences have been good." ~Carola Binder

American Institute for Economic Research

17.04.2024

Inflation We Can Feel But Don’t Measure | AIER

"Regardless of whether one thinks that the CPI should include interest rates and/or asset prices, it seems clear that consumers factor in these costs when evaluating the cost of living." ~Joshua...

American Institute for Economic Research

16.04.2024

‘Shock Values’: An Idiosyncratic Economic History | AIER

"While it provides a concise accounting of the many efforts taken to address inflation and deflation over the history of the republic, there is a cost to recounting such a rich history in so few...

American Institute for Economic Research

16.04.2024

Another Dismal Tax Day: Can It Drive Fiscal Reform? | AIER

"The pain and uncertainty from an ever-changing federal progressive marginal individual income tax system with forced withholding and payment or refund later are destructive." ~Vance Ginn

American Institute for Economic Research

13.04.2024

Economic Development is not a Zero-Sum Game | AIER

"By equating profit-making, as such, with evidence of greed and immorality, [the Vatican] perpetuates the harmful zero-sum mentality of mercantilism and socialism. " ~John C. Pinheiro

American Institute for Economic Research

13.04.2024

Biden Redoubles Effort to Crush Crypto With EIA’s Mining Survey | AIER

"Historically, the EIA has been viewed as an agency without a political agenda, but this survey suggests otherwise." ~James Broughel and John Berlau

American Institute for Economic Research

12.04.2024

How the US Treasury Induced a New Era of Swiss Monetary Policy | AIER

"Central bankers are told that their domestic monetary policy obligations...must be balanced with or even subjugated to currency management practices that accommodate American exporters and...

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Does Market Concentration Signal Monopoly? | AIER

The Ratchet Effect on the Fed’s Balance Sheet | AIER

Florida’s Faux-Meat Ban Slaughtered Free Enterprise | AIER

Take National Security Off Auto-Pilot | AIER

Failed Proof that Every Vote Counts | AIER

They Can Afford It! | AIER

Stakeholder Statism is Coming | AIER

Taxpayer Rights Revival in California | AIER

A Marxist Economist Explains Why Socialism Could Never Create a PS5 | AIER

Sanders’s 4-Day Week Will Kill Flexible Jobs | AIER

Weaving Stable Neighborhoods | AIER

Economists’ Advocacy for a Carbon Tax Is Misguided | AIER

Inflation Declined in March, But Remains High | AIER

The Wasteful Cruelty of “Stakeholder Capital” | AIER

US Economic Growth Plunges in First Quarter 2024 | AIER

Is Argentine Disinflation Sustainable? | AIER

The New Zimbabwean ZiG: Sixth Time a Charm? | AIER

Take the Government Out of GDP | AIER

Bitcoin Mining and Icelandic Bananas | AIER

Parity in Labor Transparency | AIER

Will Caitlin Clark Be Grossly Underpaid? | AIER

Why Even Insiders Underestimate Markets’ Power | AIER

A Better Model Won’t Fix The Fed | AIER

Competition Can’t Be Perfect | AIER

Breaking the Shackles of Socialism in Africa | AIER

Business Conditions Monthly February 2024 | AIER

Why Haven’t We Whipped inflation Yet? | AIER

Elon’s X Marks the Spot in Brazil | AIER

ESG Puppeteers | AIER

Nippon Acquisition of US Steel | AIER

The Colorblind Counterattack | AIER

The Justice of an All-Volunteer Military | AIER

Business Schools Undermine Wealth Creation | AIER

Binder’s Response to Kupiec’s Review of ‘Shock Values’ | AIER

Inflation We Can Feel But Don’t Measure | AIER

‘Shock Values’: An Idiosyncratic Economic History | AIER

Another Dismal Tax Day: Can It Drive Fiscal Reform? | AIER

Economic Development is not a Zero-Sum Game | AIER

Biden Redoubles Effort to Crush Crypto With EIA’s Mining Survey | AIER

How the US Treasury Induced a New Era of Swiss Monetary Policy | AIER

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