In Cleveland, OH, during his bid for the presidency, Walter Mondale blamed his opponent’s policies for turning the region into a “rust
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An earlier version of this article appeared at Economic Forces. The dumbest economics discussion over the past few years — and that’s a
Wilson County Courthouse, Wilson, North Carolina. The city of Wilson, a quiet town of about 50,000 in eastern North Carolina, would not be
The ongoing debt-ceiling debate has brought concerns about the sustainability of US fiscal policy to the forefront of public discussion once again.
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“There is perhaps no empirical regularity among economic phenomena that is based on so much evidence, for so wide a range of
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At the start of 2023, many in the tech sector and the venture capital world were coming to terms with lost money
As states periodically consider renewing and increasing economic development incentives, they would do well to consider the problem of the Winner’s Curse.
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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) moved forward with an anticipated 25-basis-point increase in its federal funds rate target on Wednesday. It
Peter C. Earle, AIER Research Faculty and former Wall Street trader, joins AIER Senior Editor James Harrigan and Antony Davies on the
February’s inflation data were an unwelcome surprise. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew at a continuously compounding annualized rate of 4.4 percent
In his instructive political fable, The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, George Leef writes, “Liberalism is the one philosophy that requires no
The AIER Leading Indicator remained essentially neutral in February 2023, maintaining the level of 58 from the previous month. Our Roughly Coincident