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On the morning of March 12 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the campus scene was simultaneously typical and surreal. Students and faculty were fatigued by...
On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook. It made for grim reading. Deficits are historically high,...
Inflation ticked down in January, the latest data released Friday from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows. But it still remains well above the...
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...
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...
Many market watchers are concerned about the softening labor market. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 92,000 nonfarm payroll...
2026 commemorates the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s great work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This book...
I’ve taught Principles of Microeconomics (“ECON 101”) regularly now for nearly a half-century. The first such course I taught was in the Fall Quarter...
If you only followed the political feed, you would think the world is splitting into billionaires on yachts and everyone else eating instant noodles...