For three months at the peak of COVID-19, I treated some of New York City’s sickest patients at Bellevue Hospital, the city’s historic public hospital. There, extraordinary clinicians delivered heroic…
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For decades, pundits have declared that Americans shouldn’t have to save for retirement in the casino of the stock market. They argued that individuals saving for themselves was too risky…
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Over the five years since the COVID pandemic, the AIER Year End Holiday Index has climbed by an average of about 3.8 percent per year, resulting in a total increase…
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“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.” -Thomas Jefferson Let me introduce you to…
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Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan recently proposed ditching the federal funds rate target as the Fed’s main policy tool. Her proposal would ensure that the Fed can continue to effectively…
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Reports in early December indicate that President Donald J. Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that would block state-level laws regulating artificial intelligence and replace them with a…
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As this report goes to press, 14 of the 24 components of the Business Conditions Monthly lack published data beginning in September or October 2025. Where updates have occurred, releases…
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Inflation was lower than expected in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported yesterday, in the first official inflation release since October following the extended government shutdown earlier this…
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Every few months a headline or social media post circulates declaring that a corporate leader earns hundreds or even thousands of times more than the typical employee, and recent examples…
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Note: The October-November readings for both the Consumer Price Index and the Everyday Price Index should be viewed as provisional rather than definitive. A temporary government funding lapse interrupted standard…