Economy

The March 2026 AIER Business Conditions Monthly (BCM) points to a mixed, still uneven economic outlook. Forward-looking data improved from the prior month, though not convincingly; measures of current activity…

A recent Wall Street Journal article reignited a familiar generational feud between Millennials and Baby Boomers. Drawing on a report by AEI economist Scott Winship, the paper asked which generation…

To Make America Healthy Again, we must first shake up the one-size-fits-all factory model that dominates K-12 education. These years shape children during the most formative period of their lives,…

As the Iran campaign grinds into its third month, with unpredictable reactions and uncontrollable consequences pushing the conflict toward open‑ended escalation — a prolonged war — the contrast with January’s…

While watching this just-released, kid-targeted film on May Day — a day which socialists since 1886 have celebrated as “International Workers Day” — I knew already from promotional material that…

When my eldest daughter, now 23, was five years old, she delivered her first “out of the mouths of babes” moment. When walking into our local supermarket shortly before Memorial…

“There is a new world order,” Vice President JD Vance recently declared. “There is a new world order in trade; there is a new world order in globalization.”  The shift…

When a state starts floating an exit tax, it is telling you something more important than any campaign slogan: the people running the place know their model is not working. …

Introduction This explainer expands upon the earlier AIER explainer “A Brief History of Federal Transfers” by examining the relationship between federal, state, and local governments shaped by transfers and the…

Is libertarianism cracking up? Pick almost any contested political issue of the moment, and you’ll find prominent self-identified libertarians on opposite sides of it. On immigration, the Cato Institute’s Ilya…