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Introduction The minimum wage is one of the most frequently debated economic policies of the modern era. Advocates argue that it protects low-income workers...
Before Trump’s re-election in November 2024, progressive commentators often advocated higher US tariffs to achieve three overlapping goals: improve jobs and wages for workers;...
An initial step that has been bandied about of late has been engineering a dollar retrenchment. Even with a weaker dollar, profound challenges will...
Mountainside avalanche barriers in the High Tatras, northern Slovakia, in the summer season. 2024. Woosh, woosh, woosh. The helicopter blades cut through the crisp...
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, on a recent visit to Philadelphia. 2024. There’s strong and growing evidence that the “next” US recession has...
A medieval vassal doing homage to his lord. An illustration from “The Story of the Map of Europe, its Making and its Changing.” 1916....
Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell and former Chair Ben Bernanke discuss perspectives on monetary policy at a research conference. 2023. The Federal Reserve...
Ukrainian soldier stands on the check point to the city Irpin near Kyiv during the evacuation of local people under shelling from Russian troops....
In July 2024, the American Institute for Economic Research’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.30 percent to 291.3. With this increase the EPI resumes...
Brown University economist Glenn Loury on the set of PBS’s Firing Line. 2023. In his self-searing memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative,...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and surrounding buildings. 2014. After slight deflation in June, prices once again ticked up in July. The...
A representation of the Laffer curve, the relationship between tax receipts and the tax rate, on a black chalkboard. Economists are famous for drawing...
An automotive production line installs batteries into electric vehicles. 2023. In an essay published recently by American Compass, long-time protectionist Michael Lind defends the...