The legal foundation for taxing every import into the US has now rested, at various points in the past year, on a 1977 emergency powers law, a 1974 statute designed…
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Headline inflation cooled in April, but not enough to give the Federal Reserve much comfort. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.6 percent last month, down from March’s 0.9 percent increase.…
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Headline inflation cooled in April, but not enough to give the Federal Reserve much comfort. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.6 percent last month, down from March’s 0.9 percent increase.…
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Americans seldom experience war directly — World War II was the last time a war reached US soil. Since then, our wars have been experienced much more indirectly. No ration…
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Whether US home prices are “the most expensive ever” depends critically on how the current moment is interpreted — a point underscored by the conflicting signals emerging from recent housing…
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Immigration to the United States is a complex and thorny topic. Setting aside the impact of immigration on American culture and politics, as well as the balance of taxes and…
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AIER’s proprietary Everyday Price Index (EPI) surged 1.6 percent to 312.3 in April 2026. Among the index’s twenty-four constituents, the prices of thirteen rose, nine declined, and two were unchanged.…
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AIER’s proprietary Everyday Price Index (EPI) surged 1.6 percent to 312.3 in April 2026. Among the index’s twenty-four constituents, the prices of thirteen rose, nine declined, and two were unchanged.…
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Over the past decade, Europe has played a leading role in shaping global climate policy, highlighted by the launch of the European Green Deal in 2019 — Ursula von der…
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Andrew David Edwards, in Money and the Making of the American Revolution, offers what his publisher describes as “a new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contest.”…