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"Politicians on the left would like us to believe inflation is caused by greedy corporations. And some academics are all too happy to provide them with theoretical cover." ~ William J. Luther

The Greedflation Myth

“As a ‘dark horse’ candidate, Ramaswamy has a greater burden of proof before the electorate. He needs to prove his policy proposals are a cut above his rivals’.” ~Alexander W. Salter aier.org/article/three-.

Three Proposals for Price Stability

"As a 'dark horse' candidate, Ramaswamy has a greater burden of proof before the electorate. He needs to prove his policy proposals are a cut above his rivals’." ~ Alexander W. Salter

May 21

Economic Growth Makes Graceland Less Impressive

Economic Growth Makes Graceland Less Impressive

"The real 'capitalist achievement,' however, isn’t Graceland. It’s the fact that compared to the stuff of the average person’s day-to-day life in 2023, Graceland just isn’t that impressive." ~ Art...

May 21

All Housing is Still Affordable Housing: “Seen and Unseen” Edition

All Housing is Still Affordable Housing: “Seen and Unseen” Edition

"The unseen cause of gentrification is the knee-jerk NIMBYism of affluent leftist neighborhood associations. And that causes the elimination of almost all affordable housing in the city, quickly."...

May 20

The Greedflation Myth

"Politicians on the left would like us to believe inflation is caused by greedy corporations. And some academics are all too happy to provide them with theoretical cover." ~ William J. Luther

The Greedflation Myth

May 20

Three Proposals for Price Stability

Three Proposals for Price Stability

"As a 'dark horse' candidate, Ramaswamy has a greater burden of proof before the electorate. He needs to prove his policy proposals are a cut above his rivals’." ~ Alexander W. Salter

May 19

“The US economy may continue to grow or shrink a few percent from year to year, but it will remain mired in a deep depression compared to what it could have achieved.” ~

@robertewright

America’s Long Depression

"US economy may continue to grow or shrink a few percent from year to year, but it will remain mired in a deep depression compared to what it could have achieved." ~ Robert E. Wright

May 19

America’s Long Depression

America’s Long Depression

"US economy may continue to grow or shrink a few percent from year to year, but it will remain mired in a deep depression compared to what it could have achieved." ~ Robert E. Wright

May 19

Without Economic Freedom, None of the Others Matter

Without Economic Freedom, None of the Others Matter

"Forbidding entrepreneurial ventures that have not been granted prior approval and design review by unelected officials is, practically speaking, state ownership of the means of production." ~...

Can the Fed Continue to Fight Inflation without Risking a Financial Crisis?

Can the Fed Continue to Fight Inflation without Risking a...

"In principle, the Fed has the ability to provide liquidity to the banking system while simultaneously reducing the incentives banks have to make loans." ~ Bryan Cutsinger

How Congress Should Reform the Fed

How Congress Should Reform the Fed

"Congress should narrow the Fed’s regulatory concerns to maintaining adequate bank capital. It should also consider abolishing the discount window entirely." ~ Alexander William Salter

“In principle, the Fed has the ability to provide liquidity to the banking system while simultaneously reducing the incentives banks have to make loans.” ~Bryan Cutsinger aier.org/article/can-th.

Can the Fed Continue to Fight Inflation without Risking a...

"In principle, the Fed has the ability to provide liquidity to the banking system while simultaneously reducing the incentives banks have to make loans." ~ Bryan Cutsinger

“Conversations on campus are increasingly radical and will inevitably bleed into the mainstream dialogue. Be ready.” ~Paul Schwennesen aier.org/article/emotio.

Emotions and Climate Change

"Conversations on campus are increasingly radical and will inevitably bleed into the mainstream dialogue. Be ready." ~ Paul Schwennesen

“Congress should narrow the Fed’s regulatory concerns to maintaining adequate bank capital. It should also consider abolishing the discount window entirely.” ~Alexander W. Salter Read here: aier.org/article/how-co.

How Congress Should Reform the Fed

"Congress should narrow the Fed’s regulatory concerns to maintaining adequate bank capital. It should also consider abolishing the discount window entirely." ~ Alexander William Salter

May 17

Taylor Swift, Turn Your Wrath to Government!

Taylor Swift, Turn Your Wrath to Government!

"The entity that Taylor Swift and her legion of fans are turning to save themselves from a predatory monopoly that engages in shifty pricing is itself a predatory monopoly that engages in shifty...

May 17

More Self-Interested Union Altruism

More Self-Interested Union Altruism

"Whenever someone claims an altruistic reason to support a policy, but it clearly advances their narrow self-interest, the latter effect can explain such support, regardless of whether it helps or...

May 16

Modern Mercantilism: A Case for Free Trade

Modern Mercantilism: A Case for Free Trade

"Global free trade helps both consumers, via lower quality-adjusted prices, and taxpayers. Walking into a Walmart to buy goods I want for dollars I earn at work does not leave me, or the nation...

May 16

Emotions and Climate Change

Emotions and Climate Change

"Conversations on campus are increasingly radical and will inevitably bleed into the mainstream dialogue. Be ready." ~ Paul Schwennesen

May 15

You Use the Roads, Don’t You?

You Use the Roads, Don’t You?

"Having resources taken from you against your will, and then accepting the return of some of those resources, in the form of a monopoly road system, does not make you a free rider." ~ Michael C...

May 15

A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in Action by Brian Balfour

A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in...

"Countering the plague of economic falsehoods and disinformation that statists constantly spread is crucial to our liberty, and this book does so brilliantly." ~ George Leef

May 14

Reduce, Reuse, and…Refuse?

Reduce, Reuse, and…Refuse?

"The last thing we want is to make our virtue signaling but inefficient recycling the modern equivalent of buying indulgences to atone for alleged environmental sins." ~ Bruce Rottman

May 14

Stadium Subsidies Reveal Tensions in Democratic Priorities

Stadium Subsidies Reveal Tensions in Democratic Priorities

"Despite being a well-known mirage, the promises of economic and job growth prove too attractive for local policymakers to resist. This tells us something about their priorities." ~ Daniel J. Smith

philip Lemmons

@philiplemmons

CEA Deserves an F on Bitcoin Mining Tax Analysis aier.org/article/cea-de from

CEA Deserves an F on Bitcoin Mining Tax Analysis

"The CEA’s argument would result in a failure on an introductory microeconomics exam. One expects better from a team of professional economists." ~ Joshua R. Hendrickson

Ted Abram

@TedAbram1

SAD: Sophistry shrouds all the anti-moral machinations, but that sophistry has been so successful that most people believe it. aier.org/article/legal- from

Legal Mafias and Moral Asymmetries

"Legal doesn’t mean right. It doesn’t mean just. It doesn’t mean moral. The powerful get away with misdeeds because, for too long, we have conflated the domains. And this conflation goes all the...

Free the People

@freethepeople

"Don't harm. Don't steal. Don't lie." via

Legal Mafias and Moral Asymmetries

Unkept Republic

@Getthepitchfork

Because no one would vote for you: So Why Aren’t We Paying Down the National Debt? aier.org/article/so-why from

So Why Aren’t We Paying Down the National Debt?

"The world will remain a dangerous place, but the further the nation is from its credit limit, the more effectively the government will be able to respond when, not if, something goes seriously...

David Lambert

@DaveLambertUSA

"Despite some good news regarding price levels, the Fed will likely need to see a continued, consistently broad ebb in prices before their hawkish stance softens," writes

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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Up 0.60 Percent in April 2023

"AIER’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.60 percent in April 2023 following being essentially unchanged in March and rising 1.6 percent in January and February." ~ Peter C. Earle

CEA Deserves an F on Bitcoin Mining Tax Analysis

CEA Deserves an F on Bitcoin Mining Tax Analysis

"The CEA’s argument would result in a failure on an introductory microeconomics exam. One expects better from a team of professional economists." ~ Joshua R. Hendrickson

AIER’s Everyday Price Index Up 0.60 Percent in April 2023

AIER’s Everyday Price Index Up 0.60 Percent in April 2023

"AIER’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.60 percent in April 2023 following being essentially unchanged in March and rising 1.6 percent in January and February." ~ Peter C. Earle

May 12

Legal Mafias and Moral Asymmetries

Legal Mafias and Moral Asymmetries

May 12

Hail to the Chief, President 6PRKr4!

Hail to the Chief, President 6PRKr4!

"Assign to each candidate for high office a new, sterile name – something that reads like an abbreviated VIN for an automobile. For example: 6PRKr4. In fact, call it a PIN – 'Politician...

May 11

An Approach to Teaching Rawls And Income Inequality

An Approach to Teaching Rawls And Income Inequality

"Far from representing an outcome chosen behind the veil of ignorance, political pressures will always be driven by full knowledge of the benefits realized by self-interested actors, even if they...

May 11

So Why Aren’t We Paying Down the National Debt?

So Why Aren’t We Paying Down the National Debt?

"The world will remain a dangerous place, but the further the nation is from its credit limit, the more effectively the government will be able to respond when, not if, something goes seriously...