Examples of government waste are a dime a dozen these days. From the debacles over the $640 toilet seats in the Pentagon and the Air Force’s $1,300 coffee mugs and…
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Private equity (PE) firms play a vital role in the life cycle of private firms. They improve operational efficiency and restructure businesses to enhance productivity and profitability. Their strategies typically…
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On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will be reducing its negotiated proportion of grant funding that goes to overhead, or “indirect costs,” to 15…
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In November 2023, the warning came, as clear as an omen. A political upstart was seeking office and, if elected, his policies were likely to cause “devastation” in his own…
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American Institute for Economic Research President William Ruger and investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger testified before Congress on Thursday to highlight waste and abuse in the United States Agency for International…
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“Free” parking has a huge cost. That’s the message that UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup, who died last week, took to the world. He lived to see his research gain…
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Last year, the American College Student Freedom, Progress, and Flourishing Survey polled 2,250 undergraduate students from 131 colleges across the United States in order to understand the state of free…
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US President Donald Trump has proposed supplying Ukraine with ongoing military aid in exchange for access to its abundant reserves of rare earth minerals — elements critical to high-tech industries…
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The swift rollback of diversity and environmental priorities in the US has been nothing short of breathtaking. Corporate America seems to be tripping over itself to scale back its commitment…
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) leapt up in the first month of 2025, ending a string of declines which began in August 2024 but retraced slightly in December 2024. The…