Peter C. Earle
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Remembering the Truly Forgotten
"Money and finance are the font and essence of modernity. I honor and praise the memory of the professionals who…
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Dear CFPB: Your Cure Is Worse Than the Disease
"...Limiting access to credit through these regulations and reducing competition in credit markets would do far greater damage to Americans…
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Business Conditions Monthly June 2024
"While the Federal Reserve's progress in controlling inflation may provide the latitude needed to begin rate cuts aimed at supporting…
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Creeps up Slightly in July 2024
"housing costs continue to drive inflation higher. Some economists had forecast that substantial rent increases would have eased by now,…
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Business Conditions Monthly May 2024
"Ongoing data noise driven by pandemic policies, unstable prices, Fed rate hikes, consumer fatigue, and stubborn disinflation early in the…
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Medicare’s Real Contribution: Hollowing Out Healthcare
"Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have…
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The End of Restaurants as We Know Them?
"If accelerating US unemployment registers the impact of contractionary monetary policy measures on the broader economy, the current difficulties faced…
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Sense and Nonsense on Petrodollars
"Myths and hyperbole aside, the weakening US-Saudi relationship is one instance amid a growing trend of diminishing US influence in…
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Unchanged in May 2024
"The recent data, combined with the deceleration in core CPI in April, suggests the resumption of disinflation. But policymakers have…
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Inflation to the Nines
"Americans will have to decide for themselves if the claim made by Biden was a lie intended to mislead anyone…
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