Economics
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Business Conditions Monthly September 2025: Data Blackout
The longest federal shutdown in US history has created deep gaps in the flow of economic data, preventing calculation of…
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Regulating Yesterday’s Market: When Innovation Moves Faster Than the Law
Can regulation work when a market changes faster than a case can be litigated? The Justice Department filed its antitrust…
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AIER’s Thanksgiving Index Near All-Time High: Costs Rise Again As Inflation Persists
The 2025 Thanksgiving season arrives with an unwelcome development: after last year’s brief and much-needed period of easing in several…
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The Gold Standard, Explained
This explainer will outline what the gold standard was, how it operated, the benefits and criticisms surrounding it, and how…
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America’s Next Industrial Geography: Wherever the Power Is Cheap
On Capitol Hill this week, five Democratic senators accused the Trump administration of “sweetheart deals with Big Tech” that have…
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The Fed Doesn’t Determine the Price of Credit. Markets Do
Recent movements in short-term loan markets are a timely reminder of a forgotten truth: The Federal Reserve is not the…
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COP-30 Misses the Point: Give Indigenous People Ownership, Not Handouts
Central planners just can’t help themselves. They feel obligated to solve the world’s problems. Consider this year’s Orwellianly-named “Conference of…
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Let Neighborhoods Work: Bans on Home Businesses Are Out of Control
Do you sell cupcakes, run a home photography studio, or tutor kids in your living room? If so, you might…
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The Southern Conservative Who Warned Against Authoritarian Temptation
The modern American right could stand to gain from the insight of Richard M. Weaver. Weaver, a twentieth-century conservative of…
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To Make Luxury Affordable, Embrace Consumer Choice
What kind of goods and experiences comprise a “normal life”? In 1900, Henry George thought millionaires lived abnormally because they…
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