debt
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Debt, Destiny, and Dalio: A Review of How Countries Go Broke
Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio warns of looming fiscal disaster, yet his “Big Cycles” leave little room for free will.
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Notches a Slight 0.10% Gain in July 2025
After a third delay of China tariffs, rising prices, delayed policy effects, and a weakening job market make the Fed’s path to rate cuts uncertain.
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IOUs to Inflation: The Realistic Limits of Magic Money Theory
Despite what Modern Monetary Theorists and other Fed fantasists would have you believe, we can’t print our way out of debt. Deficits will meet reality.
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DC’s GENIUS Plan: Use Stablecoins to Soak Up Its Own Debt
The GENIUS Act requires that stablecoin issuers hold their assets in cash, short-term US Treasury securities, or as balances at the Fed. That increased demand for debt will keep borrowing costs down.
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Scrapped Ventilators and Sovereign Wealth: Why Central Planners Shouldn’t Invest
Cutting waste at USAID while launching an utterly doomed Sovereign Wealth Fund is incongruous at best.
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A Politically Feasible Plan to Fix Social Security
Social Security doesn’t work. Letting those who choose to save and invest for themselves could improve its sustainability.
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Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation
One year into his presidency, Javier Milei has outperformed any reasonable expectations, except perhaps his own.
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Understanding Public Debt Redux
Readers have sent in excellent questions about public debt since the release of our Explainer. Here, the authors answer a few.
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Endless Spending: The Continuing Resolution Crisis
Congress’s addiction to overspending — despite promises of fiscal discipline — threatens America’s future.
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Congressional Republicans Will Undermine DOGE if They Won’t Budge on Spending
How can the new administration slash spending and red tape, if beltway insiders won’t trim even the most wasteful programs?
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Debt, Destiny, and Dalio: A Review of How Countries Go Broke
Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio warns of looming fiscal disaster, yet his “Big Cycles” leave little room for free will.
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•
AIER’s Everyday Price Index Notches a Slight 0.10% Gain in July 2025
After a third delay of China tariffs, rising prices, delayed policy effects, and a weakening job market make the Fed’s path to rate cuts uncertain.
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•
IOUs to Inflation: The Realistic Limits of Magic Money Theory
Despite what Modern Monetary Theorists and other Fed fantasists would have you believe, we can’t print our way out of debt. Deficits will meet reality.
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•
DC’s GENIUS Plan: Use Stablecoins to Soak Up Its Own Debt
The GENIUS Act requires that stablecoin issuers hold their assets in cash, short-term US Treasury securities, or as balances at the Fed. That increased demand for debt will keep borrowing costs down.
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•
Scrapped Ventilators and Sovereign Wealth: Why Central Planners Shouldn’t Invest
Cutting waste at USAID while launching an utterly doomed Sovereign Wealth Fund is incongruous at best.
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•
A Politically Feasible Plan to Fix Social Security
Social Security doesn’t work. Letting those who choose to save and invest for themselves could improve its sustainability.
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•
Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation
One year into his presidency, Javier Milei has outperformed any reasonable expectations, except perhaps his own.
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•
Understanding Public Debt Redux
Readers have sent in excellent questions about public debt since the release of our Explainer. Here, the authors answer a few.
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•
Endless Spending: The Continuing Resolution Crisis
Congress’s addiction to overspending — despite promises of fiscal discipline — threatens America’s future.
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•
Congressional Republicans Will Undermine DOGE if They Won’t Budge on Spending
How can the new administration slash spending and red tape, if beltway insiders won’t trim even the most wasteful programs?