Inflation “robs millions of citizens who in their desire to be self-reliant have set aside funds for the education of their children or their own retirement, and it hits many of the poor and elderly especially hard.”
AIER’s Everyday Price Index jumped 0.9 percent in September, ahead of the 0.5 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index. The EPI measures price changes
AIER’s Business Cycle Conditions Leading Indicators Index declined in September to a reading of 75 from 88 in the prior month. The Roughly Coincident Indicators
Tax debates might have better outcomes if we began by acknowledging that the politicians take the money from the people who earn it. It’s not the politicians’ money. It’s ours.
David Ricardo’s classic book extolling free trade turns 200 years old this year. Its rediscovery could do much to improve current trends.
The ceiling is often likened to a credit-card limit, but that’s a bad analogy. The federal government doesn’t have a debt limit at all. It has a debt sky.
Retirees are likely to see a positive but very small cost-of-living adjustment in their Social Security benefits next year.
AIER’s Everyday Price Index rose 0.4 percent in August, ahead of the 0.3 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index. Despite the increase in the
Do we want to feel good, or do we want people to have the goods they need?
“The first principle of economics is that valuable resources are scarce; the first principle of politics is to ignore the first principle of economics.”
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