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President Trump’s conflicts with Chairman Powell and with Governor Cook have obscured real shortcomings at the Federal Reserve and brought little useful change. These...
At a recent Senate hearing on the fiscal outlook, legislators and budget experts said the quiet part out loud: the United States is running...
Compare this argument from President Trump on Truth Social, in January 2026, to another (perhaps the same?) made by Pierre Joseph Proudhon in 1849....
I recently used economist Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty to explain why Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, quietly relocated...
In the technology arms race between the United States and China for dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), we are often told that the decisive...
On February 20, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a stinging rebuke. In a 6-3 decision, the justices ruled that the International Emergency...
For decades, economists have warned about the risk of fiscal dominance. Over the past year, the topic has graduated to news headlines. At first...
President Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh for the top spot at the Federal Reserve. Though a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of...
In 2017, Candi Mentink and her husband, Todd Collard, of Calvin, Oklahoma, launched Caskets of Honor, an innovative business selling caskets wrapped in vinyl...
Inflation ticked up slightly in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in its March release. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3...
The AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) saw its largest jump in 13 months in February 2026, rising 0.61 percent to 299.8. This was the...
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, I argued that erratic tariff policy has alienated our allies and that the world is increasingly building...
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...