Economy

AIER just launched its new Explainer paper series, helping the everyman make sense of complicated economic topics. The first Explainer, Understanding Public Debt by AIER Research Fellow Thomas Savidge…

Then-president Barack Obama and Joe Biden talk with Xi Jinping, now president of the People’s Republic of China and General Secretary of the…

On August 5th, US District Judge Amit Meta released a Department of Justice (DOJ) ruling against Google, which sets a dangerous precedent that…

In June 2024, all three of the AIER Business Conditions indicators maintained their levels from the previous month. The Leading Indicator stood at…

Public debt, sometimes called government debt, is money borrowed by governments. Like all debt, public debt finances spending today by borrowing on the…

A satirical cartoon from the German Weimar Republic depicts Gutenberg’s reaction to his press being used to print inflationary money. The caption reads…

Mountainside avalanche barriers in the High Tatras, northern Slovakia, in the summer season. 2024. Woosh, woosh, woosh. The helicopter blades cut through the…

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, on a recent visit to Philadelphia. 2024. There’s strong and growing evidence that the “next” US recession…

A medieval vassal doing homage to his lord. An illustration from “The Story of the Map of Europe, its Making and its Changing.”…

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell and former Chair Ben Bernanke discuss perspectives on monetary policy at a research conference. 2023. The Federal…