Daily Economy
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World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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Is ‘Ethical’ Coffee Morally Superior? Information Problems Haunt Conscious Consumers
Fair trade, organic, reef-safe, rainforest friendly, cruelty-free: are ethical labels useful signals, or simply morality as marketing?
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Measuring Trump 2.0 Against Trump 1.0: Tariff Boasts Meet the Data
Trump credits tariffs for an economic “turnaround.” The data show stronger economic performance in his first term than in his second.
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May’s Inflation Is More Than an Energy Story
Core inflation remained relatively subdued, but headline shocks, strong demand, and a tight labor market complicate the outlook for monetary policy.
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Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Economic Misconceptions
From goblin banks to unbreakable galleons, the wizarding world of Harry Potter reflects a form of folk economics that clashes with the realities of prosperity and growth.
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Rises Again as Energy Shock Fuels Inflation
AIER’s cost index rose sharply in May amid higher energy costs, while softer core inflation suggested consumers are becoming more price-sensitive.
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Ancient Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them
Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained how markets work.
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Why Water Prices Are Rising
America’s water crisis is a governance problem, not a scarcity problem.
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The Working Class Built Football. Fiat Money Priced Them Out
The sport built by the working class has become a luxury product through the slow, compounding arithmetic of central bank inflation.
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World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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•
Is ‘Ethical’ Coffee Morally Superior? Information Problems Haunt Conscious Consumers
Fair trade, organic, reef-safe, rainforest friendly, cruelty-free: are ethical labels useful signals, or simply morality as marketing?
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•
Measuring Trump 2.0 Against Trump 1.0: Tariff Boasts Meet the Data
Trump credits tariffs for an economic “turnaround.” The data show stronger economic performance in his first term than in his second.
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•
May’s Inflation Is More Than an Energy Story
Core inflation remained relatively subdued, but headline shocks, strong demand, and a tight labor market complicate the outlook for monetary policy.
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•
Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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•
Harry Potter and the Deathly Economic Misconceptions
From goblin banks to unbreakable galleons, the wizarding world of Harry Potter reflects a form of folk economics that clashes with the realities of prosperity and growth.
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•
AIER’s Everyday Price Index Rises Again as Energy Shock Fuels Inflation
AIER’s cost index rose sharply in May amid higher energy costs, while softer core inflation suggested consumers are becoming more price-sensitive.
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•
Ancient Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them
Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained how markets work.
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•
Why Water Prices Are Rising
America’s water crisis is a governance problem, not a scarcity problem.
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•
The Working Class Built Football. Fiat Money Priced Them Out
The sport built by the working class has become a luxury product through the slow, compounding arithmetic of central bank inflation.