Free Markets
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Electricity Prices are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
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Oil Prices Tumble As Competition Revives Supply
Oil has fallen 20 percent in three months. As Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel policies take hold, prices are falling and markets, like consumers, are remembering how freedom feels.
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Colonel Harwood’s Legacy: The Engineer Who Built an Economic Institution
AIER marks the 125th birthday of our founder, as we continue to honor his conviction that a disciplined, data-driven defense of markets is a key safeguard of individual liberty.
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Sow a Trade War, Harvest a Farm Crisis
Farmers have weathered droughts, floods, and pests — but Trump’s trade policy may be their toughest test yet. As China halts soybean imports, even the most productive growers are facing mounting losses.
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How to Prove Economists Wrong About Tariffs: Never Do What You Threatened
The administration’s tariff regime looks like a success only because it was never actually implemented. Economic pain is postponed, but so is accountability.
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What Hamburger Helper Knows and GDP Misses
Individual behavior — like millions of decisions about what to have for dinner — is often a better economic indicator than fancy government reports.
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Argentina’s Least-Competitive Sectors Fight Market Reforms
Javier Milei has slashed inflation and deregulated markets — but entrenched interests and old powers are fighting back.
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Badger of Economics: Why We Still Need the Austrian School
When mainstream economists forget that only individuals act, bad policy follows. Some economists never stopped reminding us. We ignore them at our continued peril.
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Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse
The frequently proposed “solution” deepens the crisis by choking supply, deterring maintenance, and driving up prices for everyone else.
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Semiconductor Giants with Tech-Industrial Ambitions
With CHIPS Act subsidies, acquisitions, and now federal ownership shares in Intel, semiconductor makers are accruing a lot of political power. That won’t be good news for technical innovation.
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Electricity Prices are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
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•
Oil Prices Tumble As Competition Revives Supply
Oil has fallen 20 percent in three months. As Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel policies take hold, prices are falling and markets, like consumers, are remembering how freedom feels.
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Colonel Harwood’s Legacy: The Engineer Who Built an Economic Institution
AIER marks the 125th birthday of our founder, as we continue to honor his conviction that a disciplined, data-driven defense of markets is a key safeguard of individual liberty.
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•
Sow a Trade War, Harvest a Farm Crisis
Farmers have weathered droughts, floods, and pests — but Trump’s trade policy may be their toughest test yet. As China halts soybean imports, even the most productive growers are facing mounting losses.
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How to Prove Economists Wrong About Tariffs: Never Do What You Threatened
The administration’s tariff regime looks like a success only because it was never actually implemented. Economic pain is postponed, but so is accountability.
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•
What Hamburger Helper Knows and GDP Misses
Individual behavior — like millions of decisions about what to have for dinner — is often a better economic indicator than fancy government reports.
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•
Argentina’s Least-Competitive Sectors Fight Market Reforms
Javier Milei has slashed inflation and deregulated markets — but entrenched interests and old powers are fighting back.
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•
Badger of Economics: Why We Still Need the Austrian School
When mainstream economists forget that only individuals act, bad policy follows. Some economists never stopped reminding us. We ignore them at our continued peril.
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•
Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse
The frequently proposed “solution” deepens the crisis by choking supply, deterring maintenance, and driving up prices for everyone else.
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Semiconductor Giants with Tech-Industrial Ambitions
With CHIPS Act subsidies, acquisitions, and now federal ownership shares in Intel, semiconductor makers are accruing a lot of political power. That won’t be good news for technical innovation.