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AIER’s innovative Everyday Price Index was featured by the American City Business Journals last week, in a story that reflected upon why some prices, like health insurance and higher education, have gone far up amid an overall mild inflation rate.
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We have noted the economy’s slow-growth trajectory in recent months, and as the Federal Reserve meets in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this week for its annual retreat, that’s expected to be a big topic of discussion. The retreat, “Designing Resilient Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future,” is sponsored by the Kansas City Fed and starts Thursday.
READ MOREIn his recent lecture as part our Summer Speakers Series, our senior research fellow Bob Hughes looks at how corporate earnings and equity prices performed during business cycles.
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When large businesses expand or enter a new market, we can expect some degree of change, and often, some smaller businesses will go out of business.
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Workers with a high school diploma have better success in the job market than those who have dropped out.
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Skyrocketing higher education costs are forcing young American adults to take out even more loans.
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The election season will soon be heading into the final stretch. The state of the economy and economic policies, actual or proposed, are almost always major topics of discussion and debate.
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The sorts of lectures and discussions enjoyed by participants of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College will be offered to the general public at OLLI’s “University Day” on Wednesday.
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Consumer strength has been offsetting weak business investment, but this weakness could be laying the foundation for a surprise uptick in economic growth in the second half of 2016, according to the August edition of Business Conditions Monthly, out today from the American Institute for Economic Research.
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Over the last week we’ve received a clearer picture of a labor market that remains healthy.
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AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative went on the road this summer, and I’d like to report the results. Our Economics-Across-the-Curriculum approach encourages teachers to incorporate economic concepts as well as engaging teaching strategies into their classes on a variety of subjects.
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I received many interesting questions from the audience at my lecture last week, titled “Mom and Pop vs. Big Box – How Small Businesses Compete With Larger Rivals,” but one in particular stood out. One theme of my talk was that small businesses can gather and respond to richer and more detailed information about their local or niche markets and customers than can larger firms. However, an audience member asked if this was changing because of Big Data.
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