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Communicating economics to a general audience isn’t just about accuracy. It’s also about keeping people interested. In Useful Economics, AIER Founder Colonel EC Harwood...
Discussions of money frequently slide beyond economics into looser forms of argument, especially when inflation or central banking are the topic. In that context,...
Medicare is not merely a senior health program; it is an elaborate intergenerational contract with a hidden clause: it quietly runs on a tax...
Fourteen years ago this month, The Office aired the episode, Scott’s Tots, in which the well-meaning but highly delusional manager of a struggling paper...
The Supreme Court has been systematically dismantling the modern administrative state. In several decisions, the justices have pushed back against the idea that executive-branch...
In 1980, at Dartmouth College, psychologists Richard E. Kleck and Angelo G. Strenta set out to study how people perceive subtle social cues. In...
“Regime uncertainty” should be our bywords for understanding the economy of 2025. Trump’s push for “state capitalism,” ranging from tariffs to taking federal stakes...
The darkest days of the year have always asked something of us. Long before we strung electric lights and gathered around brick fireplaces, people...
President Trump has accused virtually every country, including those inhabited only by penguins of ripping us off when it comes to trade. But there’s...
For decades, pundits have declared that Americans shouldn’t have to save for retirement in the casino of the stock market. They argued that individuals...
For three months at the peak of COVID-19, I treated some of New York City’s sickest patients at Bellevue Hospital, the city’s historic public...
“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.” -Thomas...
Over the five years since the COVID pandemic, the AIER Year End Holiday Index has climbed by an average of about 3.8 percent per...