Summary AIER’s Leading Indicators Index rose to 29 in November versus 25 in October. Despite the slight improvement, the latest result is the sixth consecutive month below the neutral 50…
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Economy
In this video, Kate Wand sat down with AIER Senior Research Faculty Thomas Hogan to discuss the Federal Reserve’s expanding objectives and how they affect its ability to conduct monetary…
In the social sciences, establishing causality can be a messy and daunting process. Not only are few phenomena monocausal, but at each moment human choices can alter conditions substantially enough…
Reprinted from the Cato Institute The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has been plagued with issues since its inception. So when a new report was released from Congress last week on the fraudulent activity…
AIER’s Everyday Price fell 0.2 percent in November following a rise of 0.7 percent in October and declines of 0.4 percent in September, 1.3 percent in August, and 0.6 percent…
Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, writes in defense of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Warsh believes we…
Reprinted from DC Journal It happened again. While scrolling through social media during morning coffee, I came across another post about how wonderful everything was when we were kids and…
Image Source: Flickr Can you imagine scanning the skies, seeing it’s a calm, overcast day, and then realizing you’re in danger? That is the energy world environmentalists are pushing us…
Inequality is a hot political topic. So is income mobility. For the past few years, many economists have talked about the negative relationship between income inequality and income mobility. In…
Samuel Gregg’s 2022 book, The Next American Economy, is an important and brilliant achievement. Gregg eloquently champions the free, commercial society against its many detractors. Among these detractors, of course,…