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Thursday, December 10, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Westin Waltham Hotel, Waltham, MA

Walker F. Todd talks about his new AIER publication Progress and Property Rights: From the Greeks to Magna Carta to the Constitution
Walker F. Todd is a research fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research, a former adjunct professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, and a former officer at the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and New York. Bring your copy of Progress and Property Rights and have it signed by the author!

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

Click here to view the event flyer.

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.

Click here to read the full article.

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).

AIER's recent book Start Here: Getting Your Financial Life on Track has been recommended by Robbie Dingeman, a personal finance columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser.

The book "shows how even a modest $66 a month in savings that begins at age 25 ($31,680) can generate a nest egg of $100,000, assuming an average annual return of 5 percent, while if you start at age 40 it will take $168 a month and $50,400 to generate that same amount."

Read her full article.

Start Here can be purchased for just $15 at the AIER Bookstore.

The Detriot News has published a commentary by Lyndee Kemmet, visiting research fellow. Entitled Detriot Should Avoid Bankruptcy, this article was publised on Wednesday, September 9. Here is a quote from the article:

Stung by the recession, a growing number of local governments are eyeing bankruptcy -- including the Detroit Public Schools and possibly the city of Detroit. Bankruptcy might hold creditors at bay and give a city or other public institution time to reorganize itself, but experience has shown the stigma of bankruptcy takes its toll and should be avoided.

Municipal bankruptcy rose out of the Great Depression when the sinking economy took with it many state and local governments. Unable to pay their debts, local governments lobbied for federal legislation allowing them to file for bankruptcy.

Read the full article.

Since its release on Tuesday, September 7, AIER's College Destinations Index (CDI) has been highlighted by numerous TV, radio and print outlets. Recent additions to this include: Hartford Courant, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Lake Tribune, WTOP (Washington, DC), Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau (Iowa), CBS 6 WRGB (Albany affiliate), Say Campus Life blog, Onward State blog (Penn State), Iowa City Press Citizen, and Ithaca Journal:

Lynch said Ithaca did especially well in their measurements of academic environment. Ithaca has 310 college students for every 1000 residents, 11.5 percent of the student body is from overseas, and 64.4 percent of the population between 25 and 34 having completed a degree. Student concentration, degree attainment, and research spending were the highest among the top 20 college towns, as determined by AIER.

USA Today published a piece today on AIER's 2009-10 College Destinations Index (CDI):

High school students beginning the college search have yet another resource at hand as they narrow their choices: a college destinations index that aims to quantify the whole off-campus experience.

And the index finds that New York City, San Jose, Boulder, Colo., and Ithaca, N.Y., are some of the top destinations for college students.

"Your college years are shaped by the classes, the professors and the campus, but they're also shaped by the location of the school," says Kerry Lynch, senior economist for the American Institute for Economic Research, an independent research organization in Great Barrington, Mass.

A commentary written by Lynndee Kemmet, visiting research fellow at AIER, has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle. The article appears in the today's paper (9/1/09) and is entitled "Politics pushing cities toward bankruptcy." Here is an exerpt from the article: