Black Friday 2023 Will Test Consumer Confidence
By Peter C. Earle The annual ritual known as Black Friday takes on renewed significance in 2023. This year’s shopping extravaganza will serve as a…
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AIER’s Thanksgiving Cost Index Climbs Over 5 Percent from 2022 to 2023
By Peter C. Earle For the past few years, we have reported on the change in prices associated with various holiday seasons. The Thanksgiving Cost…
US Credit Rating Downgraded, Again
By Peter C. Earle US Treasury debt, the global benchmark for nominally “risk-free” securities, was downgraded for the second time in history late Tuesday. Fitch…
2021 In 21 Numbers
By Peter C. Earle In 2021, we saw the unwinding of a number of policies and practices put in place in 2020, as well as…
Twilight of the NYC Pizza Principle
By Peter C. Earle The correlation between changes in the price of a New York City subway token and the price of a slice of…
The Great Semiconductor Shortage
By Peter C. Earle Silicon is the crude oil of the Digital Age. Millions of metric tons are mined every year in China, Russia, Norway,…
Setting the Table for Covid-X
By Peter C. Earle The May 11 jobs report took many economic data watchers by surprise. Predictions of over one million new jobs in April…
India’s Impending War on Crypto
By Peter C. Earle A senior official in the Indian government recently revealed to Reuters that the government would soon propose a law banning the…
The Back Door to Universal Basic Income
By Kristoffer Mousten Hansen and Peter C. Earle The road to hell, an old adage holds, is paved with good intentions. And it may be…
Ten Remarkable Financial Events of 2020
By Peter C. Earle The past year has been one full of superlatives: from the most votes ever cast in a presidential election to the…
Covid Policies Have Caused Industrial Consolidation
By Fiona Harrigan and Peter C. Earle Yet another side effect of the government’s response to Covid-19 is shining through in recent business headlines. In…
The Devastating Economic Impact of Covid-19 Shutdowns
By Amelia Janaskie and Peter C. Earle To this point, the destruction caused by state and Federal Covid-19 lockdowns has largely been expressed in aggregates….
The Birth of the Deep State: A History
By Peter C. Earle Every presidential administration finds some degree of internal resistance. That which has confronted the Trump Administration, however, seems to be the…
While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports
By Peter C. Earle The deadline of yet another, and perhaps the most insidious, element of the post-9/11 initiatives (a partial list of which includes…