Daily Economy News
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Teachers Started Lesson Implementations
One of the unique features of AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers program is the opportunity for teachers to field test the lesson idea, developed at the workshop, in their classroom. The Fall semester is the time for a field test, so we are excited to learn how many teachers are planning to implement their lesson idea.
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Paid Family Leave: The Next Big Budget Boondoggle
Paid family leave, President Trump’s new entitlement proposal, seems like an inconspicuous idea on the surface, but it is an enormous fiscal gamble: once the program is up and running, it could easily add hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal budget.
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Lack of Licensing Reciprocity Slows Rebuilding
When disasters strike, the demand for certified contractors spikes locally, while other regions are spared. Prices on construction and renovation increase, which should draw workers from untouched areas to the state to speed the rebuilding process.
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Academics Lift the Veil on Medical Protectionism
Certificate-of-need laws place the burden of proof on new competitors and force them to justify why they should be able to serve consumers. Often the entrants even need approval from established providers, who are unlikely to want increased supply and downward pressure on prices.
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The Millennial Success Sequence: A Cautionary Tale of Family Planning
In the analysis of socioeconomic affairs of the United States, the value of family structure is perhaps too sensitive and close to home for many pundits and policy researchers to bring up.
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The Value of AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative
One of the operating principles of AIER is to produce useful, practical, and actionable information. Therefore, the main goal of the Teach-the-Teachers Initiative is to educate K-12 teachers about the essence and application to everyday life of the concepts of money, inflation, business cycles, unemployment, and property rights.
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AIER President Denounces “Crazy” National Debt with John Stossel
The official US national debt has surpassed $20 trillion, not that any of us can imagine such an enormous sum of money, nor does that number include the greater level of unfunded liabilities.
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Hurricane Harvey Damages Set to Break Katrina Record
It’s been more than a decade since Katrina, and New Orleans is still rebuilding after more than 80 percent of the city was submerged.
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The Ideological Sustenance Venezuela Needs
The dream of a workers paradise in Venezuela, based on the 21st-century socialism of Hugo Chávez, has long since come and gone.
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Let’s Stop Calling It the “Sharing Economy”
The sharing economy, at least in its most currently successful applications, has nothing to do with sharing at all.
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Teachers Started Lesson Implementations
One of the unique features of AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers program is the opportunity for teachers to field test the lesson idea, developed at the workshop, in their classroom. The Fall semester is the time for a field test, so we are excited to learn how many teachers are planning to implement their lesson idea.
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Paid Family Leave: The Next Big Budget Boondoggle
Paid family leave, President Trump’s new entitlement proposal, seems like an inconspicuous idea on the surface, but it is an enormous fiscal gamble: once the program is up and running, it could easily add hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal budget.
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Lack of Licensing Reciprocity Slows Rebuilding
When disasters strike, the demand for certified contractors spikes locally, while other regions are spared. Prices on construction and renovation increase, which should draw workers from untouched areas to the state to speed the rebuilding process.
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•
Academics Lift the Veil on Medical Protectionism
Certificate-of-need laws place the burden of proof on new competitors and force them to justify why they should be able to serve consumers. Often the entrants even need approval from established providers, who are unlikely to want increased supply and downward pressure on prices.
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•
The Millennial Success Sequence: A Cautionary Tale of Family Planning
In the analysis of socioeconomic affairs of the United States, the value of family structure is perhaps too sensitive and close to home for many pundits and policy researchers to bring up.
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•
The Value of AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative
One of the operating principles of AIER is to produce useful, practical, and actionable information. Therefore, the main goal of the Teach-the-Teachers Initiative is to educate K-12 teachers about the essence and application to everyday life of the concepts of money, inflation, business cycles, unemployment, and property rights.
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•
AIER President Denounces “Crazy” National Debt with John Stossel
The official US national debt has surpassed $20 trillion, not that any of us can imagine such an enormous sum of money, nor does that number include the greater level of unfunded liabilities.
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•
Hurricane Harvey Damages Set to Break Katrina Record
It’s been more than a decade since Katrina, and New Orleans is still rebuilding after more than 80 percent of the city was submerged.
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•
The Ideological Sustenance Venezuela Needs
The dream of a workers paradise in Venezuela, based on the 21st-century socialism of Hugo Chávez, has long since come and gone.
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•
Let’s Stop Calling It the “Sharing Economy”
The sharing economy, at least in its most currently successful applications, has nothing to do with sharing at all.