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American Institute for Economic Research
16.10.2025
The Fed can lower the funds rate, but only Congress can rein in the spending that keeps long-term yields — and mortgage rates — stubbornly high.
Shutdowns get the spotlight, but the greater failure is Congress’s reliance on stopgap spending bills that cripple planning and invite waste.
15.10.2025
Individual behavior — like millions of decisions about what to have for dinner — is often a better economic indicator than fancy government reports.
David Zweig’s reporting exposes how untested models and assumptions hardened into dogma, with reality a distant afterthought.
As policymakers around the world grapple with slow productivity growth and rising populism, they would do well to revisit the insights of these laureates.
14.10.2025
New Mexico’s universal childcare experiment will likely worsen shortages and raise costs. Families will pay – if they can get care at all.
Javier Milei has slashed inflation and deregulated markets — but entrenched interests and old powers are fighting back.
11.10.2025
What if Donald Trump ran Mar-a-Lago’s economic affairs in the same way that he’s trying to run America’s? Let’s take a look.
Like the market version, the invisible hand of politics depends less on individual virtue and more on institutions and incentives.
10.10.2025
From Mao’s China to modern campuses, passions unchecked by reason have destroyed freedom and humanity alike. Leonard Read and David Hume help explain why.
Roosevelt used regulation and licensing to control dissenting voices on the radio. Our freedom of speech has never recovered.
When mainstream economists forget that only individuals act, bad policy follows. Some economists never stopped reminding us. We ignore them at our continued ...
09.10.2025
An in-depth look at how New Jersey’s affordable housing rules affect housing supply, costs, and overall affordability.
A “perfect storm” of inflation, debt, geopolitical tension, and investor doubt is propelling gold higher — and faster — than ever before.
The lesson from around the world is clear: countries that politicize their central banks pay a steep price.
The frequently proposed “solution” deepens the crisis by choking supply, deterring maintenance, and driving up prices for everyone else.
08.10.2025
With CHIPS Act subsidies, acquisitions, and now federal ownership shares in Intel, semiconductor makers are accruing a lot of political power. That won' ...
The OECD’s projections are a flashing red light, not a prophecy. The fix is clear: spend less, regulate less, and trust people more.
Bitcoin’s rise is likely to reshape the global role of the dollar.
07.10.2025
Buyers are sidelined by high prices, while owners cling to historically cheap loans and high equity. The freeze is reshaping labor markets and family formation.
The ban will no doubt be a windfall for some. But for millions of Nigerians, it could be devastating.
04.10.2025
Protectionism assumes Americans are foolish, squandering opportunities and mismanaging their finances. Free trade reflects confidence in our ability to adap ...
Argentina’s vast potential is shackled by its Perónist past. The path to a thriving market economy demands relentless action across society, from the grassr ...
03.10.2025
The Fed's scheme to offer credit to states and municipalities was fiscal policy in disguise, turning local mismanagement into a national problem.
Attacking people for their bad ideas doesn't make us safer. Silencing speech violates first principles — even if "they started it."
02.10.2025
Reduced rents for some tenants aren't worth reducing the supply and quality of housing for everyone else in the city.
All reporting is a trade-off between transparency and accountability on the one hand, and managerial flexibility and cost savings on the other.
01.10.2025
Urban renewal was not a failure of execution — it was a failure of principle. Just ask Aurora Vargas.
Art is highly subjective. Why shouldn't individuals fund the work they feel is important and valuable, voluntarily?
30.09.2025
Both right and left are lurching toward authoritarianism, including the kind of state-controlled economy America once opposed.
"Reality will remain relentless," Bayrou warned after his ouster. Taxing billionaires won't come close to covering France's deficit.
27.09.2025
Seniors pay less for movies, students pay less for software. Tailored pricing is still disciplined by competitors and consumers, and it often means you' ...
A price mechanism would streamline immigration while keeping its enormous social and economic benefits intact.
Inflation has exceeded the Fed’s two-percent target for 54 consecutive months, with prices up 25 percent since March 2020.
26.09.2025
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson admit government is a tangle of competing interests. But they still want more of it.
Introduction People in financial markets and in the media regularly track Federal Reserve announcements and forecast what the Fed’s interest rate target wil ...
The Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF), provided aid to fiscally distressed state and local governments. For the first time in its history, the Federal Rese ...
Lawmakers are trying to force their ideology onto every child – even those who've opted out of government schools.
25.09.2025
Kids are getting just 4-7 minutes a day of unstructured outdoor play. Overscheduling and anxiety are wreaking havoc on America’s youngest generation.
California's regulatory snarl perfectly encapsulates a key flaw of intrusive governance: the “fix” for one problem often creates another.