Daily Economy
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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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Producer Prices Rise in August
The PPI rose in August led by increases in consumer goods prices but capital equipment price increases remain modest.
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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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Job Openings Reach a New Record While Small Business Confidence Holds at a High Level
The strong labor market continues to support aggregate income growth, consumer sentiment, and consumer spending.
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Mr. Putin, Tear Down This Crypto Wall
Some might expect that the current Russian regime would do everything it could to ban cryptocurrencies and hope they go away, but Russia’s response appears to be more complex and perhaps self-contradictory.
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Why the Record-High Stock Market Is Not Good News
These lofty heights reflect easy money and a bubble just waiting to pop.
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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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Bracket Creep: A Real Problem for Taxpayers
Nothing raises Americans’ ire more than tax increases, but most of us don’t know that we face a hidden income-tax hike almost every year that the economy grows.
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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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•
Producer Prices Rise in August
The PPI rose in August led by increases in consumer goods prices but capital equipment price increases remain modest.
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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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•
Job Openings Reach a New Record While Small Business Confidence Holds at a High Level
The strong labor market continues to support aggregate income growth, consumer sentiment, and consumer spending.
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•
Mr. Putin, Tear Down This Crypto Wall
Some might expect that the current Russian regime would do everything it could to ban cryptocurrencies and hope they go away, but Russia’s response appears to be more complex and perhaps self-contradictory.
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•
Why the Record-High Stock Market Is Not Good News
These lofty heights reflect easy money and a bubble just waiting to pop.
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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.
-
•
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.
-
•
Bracket Creep: A Real Problem for Taxpayers
Nothing raises Americans’ ire more than tax increases, but most of us don’t know that we face a hidden income-tax hike almost every year that the economy grows.