Gasoline Prices Fuel 0.8 Percent Surge in the AIER Everyday Price Index
AIER’s Everyday Price Index jumped 0.8 percent in April, ahead of the 0.4 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index. The EPI measures price changes people see in everyday purchases such as groceries, restaurant meals, gasoline, and utilities. The EPI is not seasonally adjusted, so we compare it with the unadjusted CPI. The EPI including […]
Inflation Was Low in 2017, But Concerns Remain
The more government inflates the money supply, the more that prices will eventually go up.
A Modern Economic Scientist’s Appraisal of Henry George
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April Business Conditions Monthly
AIER’s Business Cycle Conditions Leading Indicators index reached a perfect 100 reading in March after coming in at 92 in February. The March result is the first 100 since January 2014. The Roughly Coincident Indicators index also registered a perfect 100, returning to that level for a third time in the past five months. The […]
Drop in Energy Prices Offsets a Jump in Apparel Prices in March
AIER’s Everyday Price Index fell 0.1 percent in March following a 0.4 percent rise in February. The EPI measures price changes people see in everyday purchases such as groceries, restaurant meals, gasoline, and utilities. As a comparison, the more widely known price gauge, the Consumer Price Index, which is reported by the Bureau of Labor […]
March Business Conditions Monthly
AIER’s Business Cycle Conditions Leading Indicators index rose to a reading of 92 in February returning the index to the three-year high recorded for November and December. The Roughly Coincident Indicators index held at 92 for a second month, while the Lagging Indicators index improved to 67 after a 58 reading in January and a […]
Apparel Prices Jump for a Second Consecutive Month
AIER’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) jumped 0.4 percent in February following a 0.7 percent surge in January. The EPI measures price changes people see in everyday purchases such as groceries, restaurant meals, gasoline, and utilities. As a comparison, the more widely known price gauge, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is reported by the Bureau […]
February Business Conditions Monthly
AIER’s Business Cycle Conditions Leading Indicators index fell to a reading of 88 in January, slightly below the three-year high of 92 recorded for November and December. The Roughly Coincident Indicators index pulled back to 92 after two months at 100, while the Lagging Indicators index improved to 58 after dipping to 42 in December […]
The Real Problem With the DOJ’s Decision to Block the AT&T–Time Warner Merger
If there is one entity this article can definitively criticize, it is the DOJ itself. In both the current AT&T/Time Warner matter and the NBCU/Comcast merger it allowed with numerous conditions in 2011, it relied on economic logic that can be called into question and mathematical models that were intended to formalize broad concepts in an academic setting, not predict the future with enough precision to provide grounds to approve or block multibillion-dollar mergers.
Everyday Prices Start 2018 With a 0.7 Percent Surge
AIER’s Everyday Price Index (EPI) jumped 0.7 percent in January following a 0.2 percent decline in December. The EPI measures price changes people see in everyday purchases such as groceries, restaurant meals, gasoline, and utilities. As a comparison, the more widely known price gauge, the Consumer Price Index, which is reported by the Bureau of […]
