Peter C. Earle
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Business Conditions Monthly May 2025
AIER’s Business Conditions Monthly indicators for May 2025 point to tentative stabilization in the US economy, though underlying signals remain…
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No, We Weren’t Ripped Off: Debunking the Myth of Trade Victimhood
By any serious measure, and certainly by every economic metric, the claim that the United States has been “ripped off”…
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Jumps 0.51 percent in June 2025
AIER’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose to 295.8 in June 2025, an increase of 0.51 percent. June was the first…
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Your Favorite Chicken Sandwich Shows How Markets Iterate
Critics often scoff at the market economists’ claim that competition fosters relentless innovation. A recent meme points to the ubiquity…
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Why Trump’s Copper Tariffs Will Hurt US Industry — and Help China
The Trump administration’s surprise announcement of a 50 percent tariff on copper imports has sent shockwaves through global commodity markets,…
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Trump’s Handwritten Note to Powell: Lower Rates Abroad, So Why Not Here?
Amid growing calls for the Federal Reserve to begin lowering interest rates, White House officials (and the president himself) have…
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Is the GENIUS Act Creating a Shadow CBDC System?
In the increasingly complex debate surrounding central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, and the regulatory perimeter of the dollar system,…
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Dollar’s Decline Meets Rising Dedollarization: The Threat Comes from Within
The recent weakness in the US dollar has reignited the debate over the durability of the dollar’s dominance in global…
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Business Conditions Monthly April 2025
AIER’s Business Conditions Monthly indicators suggest that the US economy remained under pressure in April, with the Leading Indicator slipping…
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Sees Modest May 2025 Increase
AIER’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) posted a 0.18 percent rise in May 2025, reaching 294.3. The index has now recorded…
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