Daily Economy
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Business Investment Rebounding; Household Net Worth Hits a New Record High
Business investment appears to be improving as orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for business investment, rose 0.9 percent in August and shows a 3.3 percent gain year to date versus 2016.
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We Don’t Need to Put Everything on a Blockchain
With blockchain technology, where is the line between buzzword and legitimate game-changer?
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Why Pre-Existing Conditions Cannot Be Legislated Away
The law of unintended consequences will eventually rear its ugly head, and younger people will opt out of redistributive insurance schemes. Their exit creates a death spiral of sorts, where premiums will eventually sky rocket for the elderly and those who remain.
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Consumer Confidence Ticks Down but Remains Near a Multi-Decade High While Housing Weakens
A healthy labor market is supporting consumer confidence but some signs of weakness in housing are starting to appear.
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Destruction Dogma Reveals Economic Science in Disarray
Those cranks and crackpots are now at the commanding heights of academia, preaching the same old Gospel of destructionism and irrationalism, dressed up as “modern macroeconomics.”
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Teaching Unemployment Across the Curriculum
AIER is going to the Council for Economic Education’s annual conference in New York to share with the national audience of teachers, curriculum developers, administrators, and researchers our approach of infusing economics into various fields of study.
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Atlantic Canadians Pay Up for “Just and Reasonable” Gas Prices
Marco Navarro-Génie identifies many adverse effects from imposing both minimum and maximum prices on gasoline — including rent seeking and industry protectionism — not that it made sense to begin with.
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Cryptocurrencies, Education and Public Opinion
Just how much will peoples’ attitudes have to change to allow widespread adoption of a private cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Ethereum?
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Two Ingredients for Common-Sense Immigration Reform
The key to true immigration reform is a streamlined immigration process that allows immigrants and employers to freely interact in the marketplace, while incentivizing assimilation and social harmony among new arrivals to the United States.
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Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey Jumps in September
The September Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey from the Philadelphia Fed suggests manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region remains healthy.
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Business Investment Rebounding; Household Net Worth Hits a New Record High
Business investment appears to be improving as orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for business investment, rose 0.9 percent in August and shows a 3.3 percent gain year to date versus 2016.
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•
We Don’t Need to Put Everything on a Blockchain
With blockchain technology, where is the line between buzzword and legitimate game-changer?
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Why Pre-Existing Conditions Cannot Be Legislated Away
The law of unintended consequences will eventually rear its ugly head, and younger people will opt out of redistributive insurance schemes. Their exit creates a death spiral of sorts, where premiums will eventually sky rocket for the elderly and those who remain.
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Consumer Confidence Ticks Down but Remains Near a Multi-Decade High While Housing Weakens
A healthy labor market is supporting consumer confidence but some signs of weakness in housing are starting to appear.
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•
Destruction Dogma Reveals Economic Science in Disarray
Those cranks and crackpots are now at the commanding heights of academia, preaching the same old Gospel of destructionism and irrationalism, dressed up as “modern macroeconomics.”
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Teaching Unemployment Across the Curriculum
AIER is going to the Council for Economic Education’s annual conference in New York to share with the national audience of teachers, curriculum developers, administrators, and researchers our approach of infusing economics into various fields of study.
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•
Atlantic Canadians Pay Up for “Just and Reasonable” Gas Prices
Marco Navarro-Génie identifies many adverse effects from imposing both minimum and maximum prices on gasoline — including rent seeking and industry protectionism — not that it made sense to begin with.
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•
Cryptocurrencies, Education and Public Opinion
Just how much will peoples’ attitudes have to change to allow widespread adoption of a private cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Ethereum?
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•
Two Ingredients for Common-Sense Immigration Reform
The key to true immigration reform is a streamlined immigration process that allows immigrants and employers to freely interact in the marketplace, while incentivizing assimilation and social harmony among new arrivals to the United States.
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Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey Jumps in September
The September Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey from the Philadelphia Fed suggests manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region remains healthy.