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Inflation cooled more than expected in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent...
In January 2026 the AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.33 percent to 298.0, starting the year with its largest increase since June 2025....
Sports betting has become an epidemic, especially among young men. The Guardian recently aggregated some alarming statistics about its prevalence. The story notes: Somewhere...
In early 2021, a declining video game retailer unexpectedly became the epicenter of one of the most extraordinary episodes in modern financial history. GameStop...
Recently on Facebook, I shared my Café Hayek post titled “Lower-Priced Goods are a Blessing, Not a Curse.” I prefaced this share with this...
For much of the last half-century, California benefited from a powerful first-mover advantage. Dense networks of talent, capital, and research institutions allowed the state...
Private markets work well when they are allowed to function free from big government directives. The latest example is in the world of financial...
When the internet went mainstream at the turn of the twenty-first century, it was widely celebrated as a revolutionary force for freedom and democracy....
The US seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is being framed publicly as a counternarcotics and democracy-restoration operation. But it is oil — not...
W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (where AIER is now headquartered), in 1868. Today, this towering figure of the early civil...
The shocking capture and extradition of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife over the weekend is the culmination of months of US...
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are widely – but wrongly – panned as unregulated casinos or Ponzi schemes that create no real value. For example,...
Recently, Minnesota and Governor Tim Walz have come under scrutiny for Medicaid Fraud. The debacle received renewed focus on December 1 when Treasury Secretary...