Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has it out for Amazon, and it is a fight she’s been preparing for since grad school. Six years ago, in 2017, Khan amassed…
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The basic rules that all good parents teach their children aren’t convoluted, dense, or esoteric. Nor are they unfamiliar. They’re unassailable and obvious, and in their simplicity provide indispensable guidance…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CIA have some splainin’ to do. According to a new letter from the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Fauci was admitted to CIA…
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We live in an era of macroeconomic superstition. Much of what commentators think they know about monetary policy just ain’t so. A recent example is the purported link between economic…
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As someone who has read much of Thomas Sowell’s work on public policy (my area of particular interest), I have learned that anything he writes on those topics is worth…
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The 1970s called and they want their economic policy back. This may sound like a cheap quip against the growing popularity of attempts to control prices in the face of…
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In a 1949 essay, Albert Einstein asked an important question: “Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the…
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In August 2023, the Leading Indicator in AIER’s Business Condition Monthly metrics fell sharply. While the Roughly Coincident and Lagging Indicators edged up slightly (from 75 to 83 in the…
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“The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the…
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The municipal financial crisis, with the failure and decline of cities that follow, is here. But it’s a crisis of mission, not just solvency. That’s the thesis of Mark Moses,…