Modern Portfolio Theory suggests that you can maximize your investment returns, given the amount of risk (or volatility) you are willing to take on. This is the idea to be developed and evaluated through this 10-part series, based on a lecture given by Dr. Donald R. Chambers at AIER during the summer of 2010.

Each month, one of our Research Reports articles is devoted to current business-cycle conditions. Each of these monthly discussions includes a full set of charts of AIER's primary leading, coincident and lagging statistical indicators. We also produce two charts that aggregate the movements of the 12 leading indicators. We often publish these two charts with the monthly report, however, space does not always permit them to be included.

The Economic Bulletins seek to provide in-depth discussions of matters relating to fundamental questions in economics, personal finance, and general policy questions. The Economic Bulletin, which may vary in length from four pages to book-length studies of more than 150 pages, covers topics such as Social Security, Medicare, pension plans, homeownership, life insurance, taxes, inflation, gold, mutual funds, and other personal financial information. The files here represent our non-book-length Economic Bulletins.

AIER has published Research Reports since 1934. Each issue of Research Reports discusses two or more current economic events in a concise 4-8 page newsletter with executive summaries at the beginning of each article. One article each month is devoted to current business-cycle conditions.