Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) mentioned AIER and its research on the growth of government spending in a recent floor speech. This aired on C-SPAN and a transcript is available below.

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AIER Research Fellow Walker Todd and AIER Trustee Emeritus William Pierce will be featured lecturers at an upcoming Cleveland-Marshall College of Law event. The event will feature a discussion of the Federal Reserve's recent inflation of the monetary base and the record deficit spending.

The luncheon and lecture will take place on December 2, 2009. For more information, please email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Fergus Hodgson's op-ed about the Japanese economy has recently been published in the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, the Sacramento Bee, and istockanalyst.com. Hodgson is a visiting scholar with AIER. The article is entitled Japan's Lost Decade': The Danger of Deficit Spending.

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AIER's College Destinations Index has been featured in the Washington Diplomat. The article is entitled "Destined for Greatness" and refers to Washington D.C.'s ranking as fourth in the category of major metro cities.

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The College Destionations Index (2009-10 Edition) is still creating a stir nationally amongst news outlets and universities. As the Deseret News writes:

Just as real estate value can often be calculated according to where the property is located, so too can higher education, according to the American Institute for Economic Research.

Articles also appeared in: The Salt Lake Tribune, ABC 4 (Salt Lake City affliliate), Live MSP, Inside Iowa State, the Daily Illini (student newspaper of the University of Illinois) and KSL-TV (NBC affliate in Salt Lake City).