Three Goals for Trump’s Trade Negotiations
The Trump administration has increased tariff rates on dozens of countries in part to kickstart…
Business Conditions Monthly April 2025
AIER’s Business Conditions Monthly indicators suggest that the US economy remained under pressure in…
Juneteenth Could Be a Casualty of DEI — and That’s a…
The celebration of black emancipation deserved better advocates than the ones it got. One comment I…
Fed Holds Rates Steady Amid Economic Uncertainty
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee kept the target range for its policy…
Can Bureaucracy Love Science? ‘Bethesda Declaration’…
On June 9, about 300 employees of the National Institutes of Health, representing all 27 NIH…
Canada’s Digital Services Tax is Unfair to the US —…
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), intended to lower the tax burden for Americans and thus to…
Sunnova Bankruptcy Signals Tough Times for Solar
One of the largest residential solar installers, Sunnova, went belly up on June 8. The company had…
Intersections Between the Bible and Economics
People understandably have misgivings when someone injects the Bible into a discussion of economic…
1984’s New Introduction Is a Missed Opportunity
1984 is back in the news. Orwell’s estate recently authorized a 75th anniversary edition of the…
Brown University’s Embarrassing Investigation of Alex…
Last week, Alex Shieh, a student in Brown University’s class of 2027, testified before Congress. The…
