Economy The Fed Finally Raised Rates. Now Comes the Hard Part. by September 21, 2026 by September 21, 2026 The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously to raise its target range for the federal funds rate by a… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Good Intentions Paved the Road to the 2008 Financial Crisis by September 18, 2026 by September 18, 2026 This week marks the eighteenth anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers, a key event of the 2008 global financial… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Mao’s ‘Great Leap’: Mass Starvation on The Road to Serfdom by September 18, 2026 by September 18, 2026 “A calamity ordained by Heaven may be escaped; A calamity ordained by oneself is inescapable.” So warns Shujing, the ancient Chinese… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Do You Know These 24 Underrated Economists? by September 17, 2026 by September 17, 2026 AIER readers are familiar with many of the big names in free-market scholarship and advocacy, such as Ludwig von Mises,… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Battle for the Future of Space by September 17, 2026 by September 17, 2026 New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars By Rainer ZitelmannSkyhorse Publishing, 2026.Pp. 304, $32.99 (hardcover). The 1968 film… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Hidden $13K Tax: Did the Government Make You Buy a Car? by September 16, 2026 by September 16, 2026 Nearly four in ten Americans say car ownership is a luxury their families are struggling to afford. In much of… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer? by September 16, 2026 by September 16, 2026 In 2084 — the year my kids turn 63 and 65 — the United Nations forecasts that the world’s population… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History by September 15, 2026 by September 15, 2026 Stephanie Coontz has spent several decades explaining that our ideal vision of marriage is a figment of our collective imagination.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Warsh’s First Test: Will the Fed Follow the Rules? by September 15, 2026 by September 15, 2026 Market expectations have swung sharply leading up to the Federal Reserve’s rate-setting meeting this week. With conflicting signals sent by… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Beefsteak Socialists? Left and Right Are Competing to Control the Economy by September 15, 2026 by September 15, 2026 French philosopher Jean-François Revel, sometime after Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile, reportedly remarked that when the dictator came to kill… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
