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AI, Empathy, and Entrepreneurship: Could Robot Labor Make the Economy More Human?
Experts are predicting AI will soon be able to do many tasks currently done by people . Some speculate combining AI and robots could eventually make work “ optional .” Such work would probably not be employment, as market economies have known it , but something we now call…
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The West’s Free Speech Consensus Is Fracturing
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s recent attack on online anonymity exposed a widening disagreement between Europe and the United States over what freedom in the West should mean. Earlier this month, a young German researcher asked Merz what a pending digital ID law would mean…
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Five State Ballot Measures to Watch on Election Tuesday
On Tuesday night, millions of Americans will track election results to see which party controls Congress after the ballots are counted. Far less attention will be paid to state elections, including ballot initiatives that could have far-reaching economic consequences. Here are…
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The Fed Wanted More Data. It Got More Inflation.
The Federal Reserve decided on Wednesday that it needed more information before deciding whether to raise interest rates again, voting 10 to 2 to hold its target range for the federal funds rate at 3.75 to 4 percent. The Fed explained that “the accumulation of more information”…
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Your Starbucks Balance Is Working Harder Than You Think
In January 2002, shortly after the launch of the Starbucks Card, Michael Casey was its CFO and he reportedly gave a novel description of how Starbucks would use those funds. According to Allen Eslekin, the original Starbucks Card program manager , Casey was elated: the program…
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Fifty Years Ago, Milton Friedman Upended Economic ‘Expertise’
On October 14, 1976, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Milton Friedman “for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of…
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Who Put Tariffs in My ($20!) Burrito?
Back in August, the American right spent an entire week arguing about burritos. The food fight began when Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet relayed a college student’s complaint that a burrito shouldn’t cost $20. Conservative columnist Marc Thiessen didn’t buy the student’s sob…
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The Errors of Economic Nationalism
Why more government won’t solve the cultural and economic concerns of the New Right
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How H.B. Reese Turned Failure Into Sweet Success
As nights lengthen and the autumn air cools, those of us who remember the golden age of trick-or-treating can recall the sound of packaged candy falling into a plastic, pumpkin-shaped pail on Halloween night. The candy was freely given. But it wasn’t a free lunch. Whether…
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California's Billionaire Tax May Cost More Than It Raises, Reports Find
California voters will decide on Proposition 40 , a proposal for “a one-time 5-percent tax on the worldwide net worth of individuals exceeding $1 billion,” this November. The measure’s obligation reaches backward to January 1, 2026, so any billionaire who was a California…
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Universities Now Prefer Conformity Over the Pursuit of Truth
Not long ago, universities and academics were revered (perhaps naively) for their unflinching pursuit of facts. The scientific method, tenure, academic freedom, and peer review are all set up to encourage innovative minds to follow the truth “ wherever it may lead .” The Latin…
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Business Conditions Monthly August 2026
The August 2026 AIER Business Conditions Monthly (BCM) points to stronger current economic activity but a still-divided outlook. The Leading Indicator recovered to 50 from July’s 42 , returning to neutral as improvements in financial markets , retail sales , manufacturing hours…
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Liberty Is the Common Good of a Free People
These days, it is commonplace for conservatives to say that government must serve the common good. That assertion is usually couched as a criticism of traditional conservative thinking since at least the Goldwater era, when government became excessively committed to individual…
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Presidents Should Want Limits on Their Power
Republicans are probably wishing right now that President Trump hadn’t had his way so thoroughly on tariffs and the Iran War. Even the president himself, were he prone to reflection, might have a similar thought. Republicans face daunting odds in the midterms, as Trump’s tariffs…
- In France, Keynesian Economics Show Signs of Strain
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When Conservationists Join the Farm Lobby
For many years, American conservation and hunting organizations were pioneers in protecting wildlife and natural landscapes — privately. The Nature Conservancy nurtured conservation easements, the National Audubon Society created natural preserves, and Ducks Unlimited protected…
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The Fed Can Pause, But Inflation Won't
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to leave its federal funds rate target unchanged when it meets on October 27–28. Fed officials have signaled that there is little urgency to raise rates again after September’s quarter-point increase. New York Fed…
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The Debt Limit’s Lame-Duck Test: Can Republicans Cut Spending?
Washington’s deficit addiction is imposing severe costs on the American people. As investors demand greater compensation for holding federal debt, higher Treasury yields put upward pressure on mortgage rates and other borrowing costs, while inflation pressures build. Amid…
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How the Federal Budget Gets Made
This explainer will lay out the federal budget relay race process that takes a proposed spending plan from a wishlist to an actual check while operating under rules designed to keep total spending in line.
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Dishwashers, Dining Out, and Why We Spend the Way We Do
Toward the end of the summer, I bought a new dishwasher after agonizing over a big-ticket purchase. My dishwasher had stopped working at the start of the summer, but with several pre-booked travel plans, I decided to wait and simply wash dishes by hand whenever I was home. After…