The US appears to be now treading the familiar path that recently got emerging market economy of Turkey into economic trouble. The US is increasingly disregarding central bank independence, ...

As Dan Sarewitz once said, among all the things climate change is capable of, making us dumber seems top among them.

The world economy has surprised pessimists. Yet this resilience, while real, looks far from robust. What explains this stubborn vitality? Much of the answer lies in the necessity-driven ingenuity of ...

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If you’re a fan of alternate-history fiction, you’re no doubt familiar with some tried-and-true, sliding-door switcheroos include a Civil War victory by the South, Nazi Germany getting the atom bomb ...

An opportunity for an American Renaissance Since the 1950s the focus of suburban development has largely been on the separation by function: residential from commercial and office. This has ...

Analysts who track Apple’s supply chain have demonstrated how Apple not only assembles many of its devices in China but also has over time sourced more components from China. Economist Yuqing ...

The phrase "central planning"—in the context of economic policy—might bring to mind a massive and complex bureaucratic machine, one whirring with the ambitions of apparatchiks armed with clipboards ...

Almost 4.3 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2006, the most born since the Baby Boom, and a big 3% jump from the prior year. “A baby boomlet,” the media declared. “The United States ...

The AEI Housing Center's National HPA Index tracks home price apprecation across the nation and across price tiers.

Introduction By now, the awful results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1 have been publicized, chewed over, and digested—and they are already moving into the ...

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