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Hidden from CPI, These Costs Are Eating Away at Real Wages
Two previous pieces in this series argued that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) leaves …
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Hidden from CPI, These Costs Are Eating Away at Real Wages
Two previous pieces in this series argued that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) leaves out major costs that American consumers actually pay. First, th…
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Good Intentions Paved the Road to the 2008 Financial Crisis
This week marks the eighteenth anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers , a key event of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). Lehman’s failu…
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Mao’s 'Great Leap': Mass Starvation on The Road to Serfdom
“A calamity ordained by Heaven may be escaped; A calamity ordained by oneself is inescapable.” So warns Shujing, the ancient Chinese Book of Documen…
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Do You Know These 24 Underrated Economists?
AIER readers are familiar with many of the big names in free-market scholarship and advocacy, such as Ludwig von Mises , Friedrich Hayek , and Milto…
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The Battle for the Future of Space
New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars By Rainer Zitelmann Skyhorse Publishing, 2026. Pp. 304, $32.99 (hardcover). The …
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
In 2084 — the year my kids turn 63 and 65 — the United Nations forecasts that the world’s population will peak at 10.3 billion and then begin falli…
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The Hidden $13K Tax: Did the Government Make You Buy a Car?
Nearly four in ten Americans say car ownership is a luxury their families are struggling to afford. In much of the United States, owning a car has …
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