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  • Investing: What You Know Might Hurt You

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    Investing: What You Know Might Hurt You

    By relying on familiarity as a proxy for a more thorough understanding of these generic medicines, consumers often overspend on name brand medicines. Trusting our intuition instead of relying on objective data can also lead us astray when it comes to investing.       

  • Fall Foliage Frames AIER’s Historic Campus

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    Fall Foliage Frames AIER’s Historic Campus

    It’s peak leaf season here in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home of AIER’s historic, 110-acre campus. I shot these photos on a recent series of crisp autumn days.

  • Is a Solar Powered Future Realistic?

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    Is a Solar Powered Future Realistic?

    Recent headlines suggest that after years of slow growth and marginal developments, solar energy may finally be poised to launch into the mainstream.

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    Defying Expectations, Older Workers Find New Careers

    Most older workers who sought career changes were successful, especially when they were able to use skills from their old careers, according to a new study released today by the American Institute for Economic Research. That study was profiled prominently in Money Magazine today.

  • Decision Weighs Heavy on Americans with Subsidies

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    Decision Weighs Heavy on Americans with Subsidies

    The Supreme Court is deliberating on a case, King v. Burwell, which challenges the legality of the federal government subsidizing health insurance in the 37 states that did not set up their own health insurance exchanges. This is a politically charged debate, both about whether the law is working, and what the real-world implications would…

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    Fed Still Likely To Take Gradual Approach After Strong Jobs Data

    The February employment report, released by the Labor Department this morning, was broadly strong, showing the economy added 295,000 jobs in February, helping to push the unemployment rate down to 5.5 percent. Other broader measures of unemployment rates fell as well. However, the participation rate also ticked down in February.

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    “Capitalism Needs a Sound-Money Foundation”

    “Let’s go back to the gold standard. If the very idea seems at odds with what is currently happening in our country — with Congress preparing to pass a massive economic stimulus bill that will push the fiscal deficit to triple the size of last year’s record budget gap — it’s because a gold standard…

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    “The Fed and the Crisis: A Reply to Ben Bernanke”

    “Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke spent most of his speech to the American Economic Association on Jan. 3 responding to the critique that easy monetary policy during 2002-2005 contributed to the housing boom, to excessive risk taking, and thereby to the financial crisis. Many have expressed the view that monetary policy was too easy…

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    “The Roaring Twenties and the Bullish Eighties”

    “There are significant parallels between the Roaring 1920s and the Bullish 1980s. Both decades were characterized by a policy-induced artificial boom that ended with an inevitable bust. The Federal Reserve had a hand in both episodes, keeping the interest rate artificially low in the first one and keeping Treasury bills artificially risk-free in the second.…

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    How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913

    “This essay reinterprets the gold standard by applying the monetary theory of the balance of payments to the experience of the two most important countries on it, America and Britain. Before explaining, testing and using the theory in detail, it will be useful to indicate a few of the ways in which accepting it will…

  • Investing: What You Know Might Hurt You

    •

    Investing: What You Know Might Hurt You

    By relying on familiarity as a proxy for a more thorough understanding of these generic medicines, consumers often overspend on name brand medicines. Trusting our intuition instead of relying on objective data can also lead us astray when it comes to investing.       

  • Fall Foliage Frames AIER’s Historic Campus

    •

    Fall Foliage Frames AIER’s Historic Campus

    It’s peak leaf season here in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home of AIER’s historic, 110-acre campus. I shot these photos on a recent series of crisp autumn days.

  • Is a Solar Powered Future Realistic?

    •

    Is a Solar Powered Future Realistic?

    Recent headlines suggest that after years of slow growth and marginal developments, solar energy may finally be poised to launch into the mainstream.

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    Defying Expectations, Older Workers Find New Careers

    Most older workers who sought career changes were successful, especially when they were able to use skills from their old careers, according to a new study released today by the American Institute for Economic Research. That study was profiled prominently in Money Magazine today.

  • Decision Weighs Heavy on Americans with Subsidies

    •

    Decision Weighs Heavy on Americans with Subsidies

    The Supreme Court is deliberating on a case, King v. Burwell, which challenges the legality of the federal government subsidizing health insurance in the 37 states that did not set up their own health insurance exchanges. This is a politically charged debate, both about whether the law is working, and what the real-world implications would…

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    Fed Still Likely To Take Gradual Approach After Strong Jobs Data

    The February employment report, released by the Labor Department this morning, was broadly strong, showing the economy added 295,000 jobs in February, helping to push the unemployment rate down to 5.5 percent. Other broader measures of unemployment rates fell as well. However, the participation rate also ticked down in February.

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    “Capitalism Needs a Sound-Money Foundation”

    “Let’s go back to the gold standard. If the very idea seems at odds with what is currently happening in our country — with Congress preparing to pass a massive economic stimulus bill that will push the fiscal deficit to triple the size of last year’s record budget gap — it’s because a gold standard…

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    “The Fed and the Crisis: A Reply to Ben Bernanke”

    “Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke spent most of his speech to the American Economic Association on Jan. 3 responding to the critique that easy monetary policy during 2002-2005 contributed to the housing boom, to excessive risk taking, and thereby to the financial crisis. Many have expressed the view that monetary policy was too easy…

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    “The Roaring Twenties and the Bullish Eighties”

    “There are significant parallels between the Roaring 1920s and the Bullish 1980s. Both decades were characterized by a policy-induced artificial boom that ended with an inevitable bust. The Federal Reserve had a hand in both episodes, keeping the interest rate artificially low in the first one and keeping Treasury bills artificially risk-free in the second.…

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    How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913

    “This essay reinterprets the gold standard by applying the monetary theory of the balance of payments to the experience of the two most important countries on it, America and Britain. Before explaining, testing and using the theory in detail, it will be useful to indicate a few of the ways in which accepting it will…