The Trump administration has increased tariff rates on dozens of countries in part to kickstart trade policy negotiations. These tariffs…
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AIER’s Business Conditions Monthly indicators suggest that the US economy remained under pressure in April, with the Leading Indicator slipping…
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The celebration of black emancipation deserved better advocates than the ones it got. One comment I get very often when…
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Yesterday, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee kept the target range for its policy interest rate at 4.25 to 4.5…
Read More » On June 9, about 300 employees of the National Institutes of Health, representing all 27 NIH institutes, issued a letter…
Read More » The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), intended to lower the tax burden for Americans and thus to stimulate growth,…
Read More » One of the largest residential solar installers, Sunnova, went belly up on June 8. The company had over $10 billion…
Read More » 1984 is back in the news. Orwell’s estate recently authorized a 75th anniversary edition of the timeless classic, with a…
Read More » People understandably have misgivings when someone injects the Bible into a discussion of economic issues. The Bible certainly is not…
Read More » Last week, Alex Shieh, a student in Brown University’s class of 2027, testified before Congress. The hearing was focused on…
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