Before Joining the Boycott Bandwagon, Consider This

In 2010, I had a student proudly state in my class that he was boycotting all BP gas stations in response to

The Constitution Is Dead. We’re Giving Away $20,000 to Create a New One.

The Spurious Efficiency of Dishwashers 

When is efficiency not efficiency? When the government claims to achieve it.  The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced a proposed rule

A Higher Minimum Wage, More Unions, and More Public Housing. Review of ‘Poverty, by America’ by Matthew Desmond

“Why is there so much poverty in America?” This question opens Poverty, by America, a newly released book by Princeton University Professor of

Media Independence Does Not Really Mean Media Independence

A small scandal has raised ire on social media after Twitter added the mention of “publicly funded media” under the twitter handle

Continuing to Get Straight the Facts About the American Economy

(Don’t miss Part 1 of this series, which we published May 25.) The barrage of mistaken claims about long-term economic trends affecting ordinary

Two Cheers for Gramm and Solon

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Phil Gramm and Mike Solon warn that “[u]nrestrained spending would crowd out private economic activity and

Business Conditions Monthly April 2023

April 2023 was a month of retracement for the American Institute for Economic Research’s Business Conditions Monthly. AIER’s Leading Indicator rose to

The Socialist Generation Debate

The current generation of young people is far more sympathetic toward socialism than older people, and even more sympathetic than now-old people