Peter C. Earle
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Financial
Even Elon’s Techno-Utopia Won’t Make Money Meaningless
Elon Musk recently put forth a bold vision: that within two decades, AI will automate virtually all productive activity, work…
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AIER Holiday Index: Pandemic Policies Still Raising Prices
Over the five years since the COVID pandemic, the AIER Year End Holiday Index has climbed by an average of…
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Business Conditions Monthly: October Showed Slowing Inflation, Waning Momentum
As this report goes to press, 14 of the 24 components of the Business Conditions Monthly lack published data beginning…
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index: Modest Deflation After Ten Months of Gains
Note: The October-November readings for both the Consumer Price Index and the Everyday Price Index should be viewed as provisional…
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Denying the Affordability Crisis Won’t Change the Data
A new wave of public polling and media coverage suggests that the Trump administration’s claim that “there is no affordability…
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Escape Velocity: Why America’s 1963 Poverty Math Is Broken
In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from…
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Business Conditions Monthly September 2025: Data Blackout
The longest federal shutdown in US history has created deep gaps in the flow of economic data, preventing calculation of…
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AIER’s Thanksgiving Index Near All-Time High: Costs Rise Again As Inflation Persists
The 2025 Thanksgiving season arrives with an unwelcome development: after last year’s brief and much-needed period of easing in several…
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Meet the Texas Stock Exchange: Wall St Finally Gets Competition
For more than a century, America’s stock listings have been dominated by two addresses: Wall Street’s New York Stock Exchange…
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Washington’s Wall Street Algorithm: How the SEC Designed the Modern Market
American capital markets — stock exchanges, bond markets, over-the-counter markets for securities and derivatives of all types — are often…
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