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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...
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics recognizes groundbreaking work on how innovation, entrepreneurship, and creative destruction fuel sustained economic growth. The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank...
By every official measure, the economy seems to be doing well. Personal income, disposable income, and consumption expenditures all increased. GDP growth has been...
Several incidents in the COVID pandemic’s first two years forced me to confront the uncomfortable reality that American society had cracked apart, fleeing the...
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced in September that New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to guarantee free childcare for its...
Almost two years ago, the enthusiasm of the 56 percent of Argentine voters who called for “Freedom” when electing Javier Milei as President of...
Donald and Melania Trump are eating breakfast together at Mar-a-Lago on the morning of January 21, 2029. At noon on the previous day, Gretchen...
Why do people vote, protest, or boycott, when their individual actions almost never change political outcomes? Economists have long emphasized that the probability that...
No president in American history had greater skill in the political uses of radio than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His warm voice was called “sincere...
Having read and written extensively (for example, here) about the suffering of the Chinese people under Mao, I was horrified and alarmed to listen...
In mythology, the badger is an unlikely symbol of wisdom. Resourceful and persistent, it digs deep for hidden answers, and surprises opponents with unexpected...