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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Continues to Rise in April 2025
Tariffs pushed some prices up in April, but falling service costs and an uncertain outlook make the inflation picture much murkier.
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Making GDP Great Again: A Complementary Approach
Including government spending in GDP distorts our understanding of value: spending more on tanks and bullets doesn’t mean civilians are getting wealthier during wartime.
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How Equity Markets Reacted to Trump’s Tariff Announcements: The Data
The US has been by far the biggest loser in tariff negotiations. Indexes have fallen sharply.
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US Trade Policy is a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Disaster
Trump’s tariffs killed the US’s soft power, leaving a geopolitical vacuum into which US rivals like China will expand.
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Tariffs are Compromising Trump’s Economic Agenda
Even if he slashes regulation and lowers taxes, any savings will be buried under needless damage to our economy and our international reputation.
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Free Speech Is Essential to Our Human Dignity
Censorship is often less about making the world a safer place for minorities, and more about indulging our own capacity for cruelty.
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Trade Does Not Create A National Security Externality
Our choice to trade can’t impose externalities on some other interests’ desire for security. Government doesn’t have goals separate from its citizens’.
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Busting the NAFTA Myth: US Exports Soared After the Trade Agreement
Free trade has allowed us to purchase low-cost products from overseas, focusing employment in high-paying sectors where we enjoy a comparative advantage.
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Fed Holds Steady as Tariff Storm Looms
The Fed seems confident it can hold inflation near two percent, but the full impact of tariffs on prices and employment remains unknowable.
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The Poor Are Richer Than We Think: Unlocking Dead Capital
Depictions of global wealth don’t account for assets that lack formal ownership rights: the world’s poor own a mountain of capital they can’t fully put to work.
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Continues to Rise in April 2025
Tariffs pushed some prices up in April, but falling service costs and an uncertain outlook make the inflation picture much murkier.
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•
Making GDP Great Again: A Complementary Approach
Including government spending in GDP distorts our understanding of value: spending more on tanks and bullets doesn’t mean civilians are getting wealthier during wartime.
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•
How Equity Markets Reacted to Trump’s Tariff Announcements: The Data
The US has been by far the biggest loser in tariff negotiations. Indexes have fallen sharply.
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•
US Trade Policy is a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Disaster
Trump’s tariffs killed the US’s soft power, leaving a geopolitical vacuum into which US rivals like China will expand.
-
•
Tariffs are Compromising Trump’s Economic Agenda
Even if he slashes regulation and lowers taxes, any savings will be buried under needless damage to our economy and our international reputation.
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•
Free Speech Is Essential to Our Human Dignity
Censorship is often less about making the world a safer place for minorities, and more about indulging our own capacity for cruelty.
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•
Trade Does Not Create A National Security Externality
Our choice to trade can’t impose externalities on some other interests’ desire for security. Government doesn’t have goals separate from its citizens’.
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•
Busting the NAFTA Myth: US Exports Soared After the Trade Agreement
Free trade has allowed us to purchase low-cost products from overseas, focusing employment in high-paying sectors where we enjoy a comparative advantage.
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•
Fed Holds Steady as Tariff Storm Looms
The Fed seems confident it can hold inflation near two percent, but the full impact of tariffs on prices and employment remains unknowable.
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•
The Poor Are Richer Than We Think: Unlocking Dead Capital
Depictions of global wealth don’t account for assets that lack formal ownership rights: the world’s poor own a mountain of capital they can’t fully put to work.