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For over two decades, gold’s role as a staple investment has grown more pronounced in the global financial system. Since 2000, the commodity has...
America’s fiscal and monetary problems look like two separate crises. They aren’t. Runaway government spending and an unruly Federal Reserve are two sides of...
America has spent more than $20 trillion on fighting poverty since the introduction of President Johnson’s Great Society program in 1964. Sixty years later,...
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...
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...