Peter C. Earle
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Economic Measurement and the Mirage of Exactness
In contentious political environments, economic data rarely stand as objective measures. They are transformed into talking points and wielded to…
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Business Conditions Monthly June 2025
AIER’s Business Conditions Monthly indicators for June 2025 point to a sharper divergence in the US outlook. The Leading Indicator…
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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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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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How Unusual Was July’s Jobs Report Revision? Here’s What My Analysis Found
The week of July 28 to August 1, 2025, was packed with major economic data releases. In addition to the…
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Wall Street Isn’t Daycare: Interns Meet the Real World
In recent years, a chorus of complaints has emerged from Millennial and Gen-Z interns and junior analysts about the allegedly…
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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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