Topic: Daily Economy News

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The Millennial Success Sequence: A Cautionary Tale of Family Planning

– September 14, 2017

In the analysis of socioeconomic affairs of the United States, the value of family structure is perhaps too sensitive and close to home for many pundits and policy researchers to bring up.

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The Value of AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative

– September 14, 2017

One of the operating principles of AIER is to produce useful, practical, and actionable information. Therefore, the main goal of the Teach-the-Teachers Initiative is to educate K-12 teachers about the essence and application to everyday life of the concepts of money, inflation, business cycles, unemployment, and property rights.

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AIER President Denounces “Crazy” National Debt with John Stossel

– September 13, 2017

The official US national debt has surpassed $20 trillion, not that any of us can imagine such an enormous sum of money, nor does that number include the greater level of unfunded liabilities.

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Hurricane Harvey Damages Set to Break Katrina Record

– September 12, 2017

It’s been more than a decade since Katrina, and New Orleans is still rebuilding after more than 80 percent of the city was submerged.

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The Ideological Sustenance Venezuela Needs

– September 8, 2017

The dream of a workers paradise in Venezuela, based on the 21st-century socialism of Hugo Chávez, has long since come and gone.

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Let’s Stop Calling It the “Sharing Economy”

– September 8, 2017

The sharing economy, at least in its most currently successful applications, has nothing to do with sharing at all.

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Bitcoin to Be Studied During AIER’s Applied Economic Research Course

– September 7, 2017

Continuing AIER’s innovative approach to bridging the gap between students’ academic training and skills demanded in the workplace, we started a remote applied-economic-research course with Missouri University of Science and Technology last week.

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How the Sharing Economy Liberates Us

– September 5, 2017

Innovative business models allow resource allocation to respond to the spontaneity of the human mind, which craves freedom and personal and economic well-being.

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If Canada Wants Free Trade, She Should Practice It

– September 4, 2017

If free trade translates to regulations for gender, indigenous groups, and climate change, you might be in Canada.

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Teach-the-Teachers Program Supports the Economic-Reasoning Process

– August 31, 2017

As AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers program continues to impact teachers and students around the country, it is satisfying to realize that our approach follows the highest echelons of economic education.

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Economics Truly Crosses the Curriculum at AIER Workshops

– August 7, 2017

AIER’s economics-across-the-curriculum approach is designed to encourage the infusion of economic concepts into various disciplines and across instructional levels. In 2017 our program attracted a diverse group of participants from middle school to college who are teaching a variety of subjects.      

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AIER’s 2017 Summer Fellowship Comes to a Close

– August 2, 2017

AIER’s 2017 Summer Fellowship Program comes to a close today. As students are departing, we are reflecting on continued legacy of our founder, Col. E.C. Harwood, who advocated “efforts to promote independent scientific inquiry and education.”

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