Economy Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet by December 23, 2025 by December 23, 2025 “Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy AIER Holiday Index: Pandemic Policies Still Raising Prices by December 23, 2025 by December 23, 2025 Over the five years since the COVID pandemic, the AIER Year End Holiday Index has climbed by an average of… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Dallas Fed President: It’s Time to Replace the Fed’s Interest Rate Target by December 22, 2025 by December 22, 2025 Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan recently proposed ditching the federal funds rate target as the Fed’s main policy tool. Her… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Nationalization of AI Threatens Innovation and the American Mind by December 22, 2025 by December 22, 2025 Reports in early December indicate that President Donald J. Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that would block… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Business Conditions Monthly: October Showed Slowing Inflation, Waning Momentum by December 21, 2025 by December 21, 2025 As this report goes to press, 14 of the 24 components of the Business Conditions Monthly lack published data beginning… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Inflation Retreats from Late-Summer Highs, Nears Fed Target by December 19, 2025 by December 19, 2025 Inflation was lower than expected in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported yesterday, in the first official inflation… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Stop Fixating on CEO Pay Ratios and Start Fixing Labor Markets by December 19, 2025 by December 19, 2025 Every few months a headline or social media post circulates declaring that a corporate leader earns hundreds or even thousands… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy AIER’s Everyday Price Index: Modest Deflation After Ten Months of Gains by December 18, 2025 by December 18, 2025 Note: The October-November readings for both the Consumer Price Index and the Everyday Price Index should be viewed as provisional… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Breakneck: Dan Wang Explores the Strange Symmetry of US and China by December 18, 2025 by December 18, 2025 The title of Dan Wang’s book Breakneck focuses on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) specifically, but it is really… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The UK Becomes a Case Study in How Not to Fix a Floundering Economy by December 18, 2025 by December 18, 2025 In its manifesto for the 2024 general election, Britain’s Labour party listed “Five Missions to Rebuild Britain,” the first being:… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail