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Why Even Progressive Economists Are Finally Warming to Free Markets

Don’t look now, but free-market economics is coming back into vogue. For the last decade, mainstream economists of both the…

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Economics

Uber’s Gender Features Put Customers in the Driver’s Seat

Uber announced last month that it plans to roll out a new feature that would allow female drivers and riders…

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Economics

AIER’s Everyday Price Index Notches a Slight 0.10% Gain in July 2025

In July 2025 the AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose to 296.1, a rise of 0.10 percent. This is the…

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Economics

From Tea Party Patriotism to Economic Nationalism: How the Right Gave Up on Small Government

The cascading events of the 2008 global recession, and a bipartisan $700 billion bailout of US banks, sparked a cultural…

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Economics

DC’s $4.4B RFK Stadium Boondoggle: A Gift to Interest Groups, a Burden on Taxpayers

Washington, DC’s subsidization of the renovation of RFK Stadium  — the once and future home of the Washington Commanders —…

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Economics

Bad News, But Not Bias: BLS Bean Counters Got It Mostly Right

Imagine for a minute that I give you a jar of jellybeans and ask for your best guess at how…

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Economics

You Can Pay Your Friends on PayPal and Venmo Again—And Not Worry About the IRS

Since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill in early July, Democrats have devoted their summer to campaigning against…

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Economics

Health on the Shelf: How Markets Made Life-Saving Inhalers Accessible

A simple conversation sparked the idea for modern metered-dose inhalers, but markets made them iconic. George Maison, President of Riker…

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Economics

Trump’s 39% Tariff on Gold: Revenue Grab or Prelude to Revaluation?

In the early hours of trading on Friday, August 8, 2025, global markets were shaken by the announcement of a…

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Economics

The Day New York Defaulted: Inside Gotham’s Fiscal Fall

In November 1974, New York Times film critic Vincent Canby wrote that the city had become “a metaphor for what…

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