As policymakers around the world grapple with slow productivity growth and rising populism, they would do well to revisit the insights of these laureates.

American Institute for Economic Research

14.10.2025

Universal Childcare: Real Problem, Wrong Solution | The Daily Economy

New Mexico’s universal childcare experiment will likely worsen shortages and raise costs. Families will pay – if they can get care at all.

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14.10.2025

Argentina’s Least-Competitive Sectors Fight Market Reforms | The Daily Economy

Javier Milei has slashed inflation and deregulated markets — but entrenched interests and old powers are fighting back.

American Institute for Economic Research

11.10.2025

How Not to Run a Household — or a Country | The Daily Economy

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.

American Institute for Economic Research

11.10.2025

How Self-Interest Civilizes Politics | The Daily Economy

Like the market version, the invisible hand of politics depends less on individual virtue and more on institutions and incentives.

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10.10.2025

Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Zeal Is Still Warping Young Minds | The Daily Economy

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.

American Institute for Economic Research

10.10.2025

FDR and the Quashing of Free Radio | The Daily Economy

Roosevelt used regulation and licensing to control dissenting voices on the radio. Our freedom of speech has never recovered.

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10.10.2025

Badger of Economics: Why We Still Need the Austrian School | The Daily Economy

When mainstream economists forget that only individuals act, bad policy follows. Some economists never stopped reminding us. We ignore them at our continued ...

American Institute for Economic Research

09.10.2025

Have Mount Laurel Obligations Made New Jersey Housing More Affordable? A Synthetic Control Analysis of Housing Supply and Cost | AIER

An in-depth look at how New Jersey’s affordable housing rules affect housing supply, costs, and overall affordability.

American Institute for Economic Research

09.10.2025

Gold’s Acceleration Reveals Vanishing Calm, Coming Change | The Daily Economy

A “perfect storm” of inflation, debt, geopolitical tension, and investor doubt is propelling gold higher — and faster — than ever before.

American Institute for Economic Research

09.10.2025

Why the Erosion of Central Bank Independence Matters | The Daily Economy

The lesson from around the world is clear: countries that politicize their central banks pay a steep price.

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09.10.2025

Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse | The Daily Economy

The frequently proposed “solution” deepens the crisis by choking supply, deterring maintenance, and driving up prices for everyone else.

American Institute for Economic Research

08.10.2025

Semiconductor Giants with Tech-Industrial Ambitions | The Daily Economy

With CHIPS Act subsidies, acquisitions, and now federal ownership shares in Intel, semiconductor makers are accruing a lot of political power. That won&#039 ...

American Institute for Economic Research

08.10.2025

The OECD’s Warning to America: Economic Growth Is Slipping | The Daily Economy

The OECD’s projections are a flashing red light, not a prophecy. The fix is clear: spend less, regulate less, and trust people more.

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08.10.2025

Will Bitcoin Strengthen or Weaken US Dollar Dominance? | The Daily Economy

Bitcoin’s rise is likely to reshape the global role of the dollar.

American Institute for Economic Research

07.10.2025

Housing's Deep Freeze: Existing Home Sales at 25-Year Lows | The Daily Economy

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.

American Institute for Economic Research

07.10.2025

Nigeria’s Shea Ban Backfires, Crushing Millions of Women Workers | The Daily Economy

The ban will no doubt be a windfall for some. But for millions of Nigerians, it could be devastating.

American Institute for Economic Research

04.10.2025

Tariffs Rest on Distrust of Citizens | The Daily Economy

Protectionism assumes Americans are foolish, squandering opportunities and mismanaging their finances. Free trade reflects confidence in our ability to adap ...

American Institute for Economic Research

04.10.2025

What I Saw in Milei’s Argentina | The Daily Economy

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 ...

American Institute for Economic Research

03.10.2025

Mission Creep: The Fed’s Foray Into State and Local Debt | The Daily Economy

The Fed's scheme to offer credit to states and municipalities was fiscal policy in disguise, turning local mismanagement into a national problem.

American Institute for Economic Research

03.10.2025

I Was a Victim of Cancel Culture. Don’t Perpetuate It. | The Daily Economy

Attacking people for their bad ideas doesn't make us safer. Silencing speech violates first principles — even if "they started it."

American Institute for Economic Research

02.10.2025

The Big Chill: Mamdani's Rent-Freeze Fantasy  | The Daily Economy

Reduced rents for some tenants aren't worth reducing the supply and quality of housing for everyone else in the city.

American Institute for Economic Research

02.10.2025

Is Abandoning Quarterly Earnings Report Requirements a Good Idea? | The Daily Economy

All reporting is a trade-off between transparency and accountability on the one hand, and managerial flexibility and cost savings on the other.

American Institute for Economic Research

01.10.2025

Dodger Stadium's Dark Secret and the Human Cost of Urban Renewal | The Daily Economy

Urban renewal was not a failure of execution — it was a failure of principle. Just ask Aurora Vargas.

American Institute for Economic Research

01.10.2025

The Case for Privately Funding the Arts Just Got Stronger | The Daily Economy

Art is highly subjective. Why shouldn't individuals fund the work they feel is important and valuable, voluntarily?

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30.09.2025

Is This Even Capitalism Anymore? | The Daily Economy

Both right and left are lurching toward authoritarianism, including the kind of state-controlled economy America once opposed.

American Institute for Economic Research

30.09.2025

Zucman’s Wealth Tax Can’t Save France From Itself | The Daily Economy

"Reality will remain relentless," Bayrou warned after his ouster. Taxing billionaires won't come close to covering France's deficit.

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27.09.2025

'Surveillance Pricing' Is Just Pricing | The Daily Economy

Seniors pay less for movies, students pay less for software. Tailored pricing is still disciplined by competitors and consumers, and it often means you&#039 ...

American Institute for Economic Research

27.09.2025

Should We Set an Entry Price for Immigrants? | The Daily Economy

A price mechanism would streamline immigration while keeping its enormous social and economic benefits intact.

American Institute for Economic Research

27.09.2025

Inflation Still Over Target in August | The Daily Economy

Inflation has exceeded the Fed’s two-percent target for 54 consecutive months, with prices up 25 percent since March 2020.

American Institute for Economic Research

26.09.2025

'Abundance' of Contradiction: Progressives Discover Public Choice | The Daily Economy

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson admit government is a tangle of competing interests. But they still want more of it.

American Institute for Economic Research

26.09.2025

How Does the Federal Reserve Set Interest Rates? | AIER

Introduction People in financial markets and in the media regularly track Federal Reserve announcements and forecast what the Fed’s interest rate target wil ...

American Institute for Economic Research

26.09.2025

Enabling Bad Behavior: The Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility in Retrospect | AIER

The Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF), provided aid to fiscally distressed state and local governments. For the first time in its history, the Federal Rese ...

American Institute for Economic Research

26.09.2025

New Jersey's Assault on Homeschooling | The Daily Economy

Lawmakers are trying to force their ideology onto every child – even those who've opted out of government schools.

American Institute for Economic Research

25.09.2025

Seven Minutes Outside: The Collapse of Childhood Play | The Daily Economy

Kids are getting just 4-7 minutes a day of unstructured outdoor play. Overscheduling and anxiety are wreaking havoc on America’s youngest generation.

American Institute for Economic Research

25.09.2025

Regulatory Rollbacks Begin to Combat Cali's Housing Crisis | The Daily Economy

California's regulatory snarl perfectly encapsulates a key flaw of intrusive governance: the “fix” for one problem often creates another.

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The Fed Cuts, but the Market Shrugs: Why Mortgage Rates Refuse to Fall | The Daily Economy

A Government Shutdown Is Less Scary Than Dysfunction-As-Usual | The Daily Economy

What Hamburger Helper Knows and GDP Misses | The Daily Economy

The Pandemic That Broke Our Faith in Modeling | The Daily Economy

The 2025 Nobel in Economics and the Roots of Enduring Growth | The Daily Economy

Universal Childcare: Real Problem, Wrong Solution | The Daily Economy

Argentina’s Least-Competitive Sectors Fight Market Reforms | The Daily Economy

How Not to Run a Household — or a Country | The Daily Economy

How Self-Interest Civilizes Politics | The Daily Economy

Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Zeal Is Still Warping Young Minds | The Daily Economy

FDR and the Quashing of Free Radio | The Daily Economy

Badger of Economics: Why We Still Need the Austrian School | The Daily Economy

Have Mount Laurel Obligations Made New Jersey Housing More Affordable? A Synthetic Control Analysis of Housing Supply and Cost | AIER

Gold’s Acceleration Reveals Vanishing Calm, Coming Change | The Daily Economy

Why the Erosion of Central Bank Independence Matters | The Daily Economy

Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse | The Daily Economy

Semiconductor Giants with Tech-Industrial Ambitions | The Daily Economy

The OECD’s Warning to America: Economic Growth Is Slipping | The Daily Economy

Will Bitcoin Strengthen or Weaken US Dollar Dominance? | The Daily Economy

Housing's Deep Freeze: Existing Home Sales at 25-Year Lows | The Daily Economy

Nigeria’s Shea Ban Backfires, Crushing Millions of Women Workers | The Daily Economy

Tariffs Rest on Distrust of Citizens | The Daily Economy

What I Saw in Milei’s Argentina | The Daily Economy

Mission Creep: The Fed’s Foray Into State and Local Debt | The Daily Economy

I Was a Victim of Cancel Culture. Don’t Perpetuate It. | The Daily Economy

The Big Chill: Mamdani's Rent-Freeze Fantasy | The Daily Economy

Is Abandoning Quarterly Earnings Report Requirements a Good Idea? | The Daily Economy

Dodger Stadium's Dark Secret and the Human Cost of Urban Renewal | The Daily Economy

The Case for Privately Funding the Arts Just Got Stronger | The Daily Economy

Is This Even Capitalism Anymore? | The Daily Economy

Zucman’s Wealth Tax Can’t Save France From Itself | The Daily Economy

'Surveillance Pricing' Is Just Pricing | The Daily Economy

Should We Set an Entry Price for Immigrants? | The Daily Economy

Inflation Still Over Target in August | The Daily Economy

'Abundance' of Contradiction: Progressives Discover Public Choice | The Daily Economy

How Does the Federal Reserve Set Interest Rates? | AIER

Enabling Bad Behavior: The Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility in Retrospect | AIER

New Jersey's Assault on Homeschooling | The Daily Economy

Seven Minutes Outside: The Collapse of Childhood Play | The Daily Economy

Regulatory Rollbacks Begin to Combat Cali's Housing Crisis | The Daily Economy

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