Daily Economy
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The National Activity Index Points to Better Growth in September
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index composite of 85 economic data series suggests growth accelerated in September.
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Bitcoin Adoption: Evolution or Revolution?
If widespread use of Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency is truly in our future, some series of events will have to disrupt the status quo. Broadly speaking, I see two possibilities, which I’ll call the revolutionary and evolutionary approaches.
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AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Alumna Presents at a National Stage
At a recent annual conference of the Council for Economic Education, a lesson on unemployment was presented by Vicki L. Fuhrhop, a teacher at Collinsville High School in Collinsville, Ill, who is an alumna from the 2016 Chicago class. She joins the roster of teachers who implemented lesson ideas from our workshops in their classrooms.
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Sorry, Bernie Bros, “Free” College Will Cost You
American universities are the best in the world in large part due to the presence of many that behave more like businesses that offer services. That is in contrast to institutions whose services are treated as “social rights” with prohibitions on profits.
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New Housing Starts and Permits Fell in September as Activity Appears to Plateau
Housing starts fell in September and appear to be plateauing after rebounding from the boom-bust cycle in the early 2000s.
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Why Bastiat?
AIER has added the Bastiat Society Program to expand the reach of AIER’s mission. Through the program’s well-established chapter network of business leaders, AIER will be coordinating over 140 chapter events in 2018; panel discussions, lectures, conferences and debates that will focus on free markets and liberty.
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How Scott Pruitt Became the Great Satan, Destroyer of Clean Energy
The Trump administration is now moving to dismantle the whole Clean Power Plan boondoggle, and environmentalist crusaders are not happy. We hear every day that this is “genocide,” “raping the planet,” and the whole predictable litany of apocalyptic quasi-religious fear-mongering.
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Industrial Production Rebounds but Growth Remains Weak
Economic data continue to be impacted by distortions from hurricanes, but the broad trend of very slow growth in industrial production appears to be intact.
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“Cosmic Seigniorage” Underscores Scarcity of Gold
Creating gold requires an excedingly rare event and unfathomable amounts of energy.
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Do or Die: We Need a Corporate-Tax Face-Lift
The United States does not live in an institutional vacuum; her citizens respond to tax incentives just like they do with prices. As a result of America’s onerous corporate taxes, many corporations choose to establish their headquarters in low-tax countries and also invest abroad.
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The National Activity Index Points to Better Growth in September
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index composite of 85 economic data series suggests growth accelerated in September.
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•
Bitcoin Adoption: Evolution or Revolution?
If widespread use of Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency is truly in our future, some series of events will have to disrupt the status quo. Broadly speaking, I see two possibilities, which I’ll call the revolutionary and evolutionary approaches.
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•
AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Alumna Presents at a National Stage
At a recent annual conference of the Council for Economic Education, a lesson on unemployment was presented by Vicki L. Fuhrhop, a teacher at Collinsville High School in Collinsville, Ill, who is an alumna from the 2016 Chicago class. She joins the roster of teachers who implemented lesson ideas from our workshops in their classrooms.
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Sorry, Bernie Bros, “Free” College Will Cost You
American universities are the best in the world in large part due to the presence of many that behave more like businesses that offer services. That is in contrast to institutions whose services are treated as “social rights” with prohibitions on profits.
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•
New Housing Starts and Permits Fell in September as Activity Appears to Plateau
Housing starts fell in September and appear to be plateauing after rebounding from the boom-bust cycle in the early 2000s.
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•
Why Bastiat?
AIER has added the Bastiat Society Program to expand the reach of AIER’s mission. Through the program’s well-established chapter network of business leaders, AIER will be coordinating over 140 chapter events in 2018; panel discussions, lectures, conferences and debates that will focus on free markets and liberty.
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•
How Scott Pruitt Became the Great Satan, Destroyer of Clean Energy
The Trump administration is now moving to dismantle the whole Clean Power Plan boondoggle, and environmentalist crusaders are not happy. We hear every day that this is “genocide,” “raping the planet,” and the whole predictable litany of apocalyptic quasi-religious fear-mongering.
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•
Industrial Production Rebounds but Growth Remains Weak
Economic data continue to be impacted by distortions from hurricanes, but the broad trend of very slow growth in industrial production appears to be intact.
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•
“Cosmic Seigniorage” Underscores Scarcity of Gold
Creating gold requires an excedingly rare event and unfathomable amounts of energy.
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•
Do or Die: We Need a Corporate-Tax Face-Lift
The United States does not live in an institutional vacuum; her citizens respond to tax incentives just like they do with prices. As a result of America’s onerous corporate taxes, many corporations choose to establish their headquarters in low-tax countries and also invest abroad.