Marcelo Capobianco is a butcher in Buenos Aires, where he works in a white-tiled room surrounded by dangling hooks, slabs of beef, and a sign that reads “Long live freedom!” He livestreams prices on Facebook Read More

The Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes, the surge in retail trader activity, and pandemic-driven valuations have led many previously high-flying public firms to face a sudden reversal of fortunes. Transitioning from pandemic-era policies to Read More

A Short Guide to ESG: Goals Paul Mueller At this point, we should try to get a clear picture of what ESG advocates hope to achieve. But because there are so many different people in Read More

In October 2023, AIER’s Business Conditions Monthly indices shifted downward. Our Leading Indicator fell to a contractionary 29, a level it has not registered since the period between July and December 2022. The Roughly Coincident Indicator fell Read More

Advocates of various energy technologies have long argued that major barriers, either government or market-derived, stifle the development of their favored technology. They then infer that the current level of their preferred technology is suboptimal, Read More

Many people understandably wonder what spectacular music humanity was denied by the premature death of Mozart at the age of 35. What symphonies, operas, and concertos would today be part of the regular repertoire of orchestras Read More

As reported by Bruce Gilley in Law and Liberty, the Biden White House has just finalized a new and dangerous revision to the rules that have been applied to government benefit-cost analyses (BCA) of spending Read More

As Thanksgiving morphs into Christmas, the December television schedule will be filled with the usual assortment of Christmas classics, not the least of which is Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life. I’ve Read More

Great news on the inflation front: According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, price pressures have significantly eased. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI) rose 3.0 percent year-over-year in October, down from 3.4 percent the month Read More

Education experts have complained for decades that public schools are overregulated. The host of regulations schools must comply with consumes educators’ time, time used to document compliance instead of educating children. In a 2011 Congressional hearing, Read More