Black Friday 2023 Will Test Consumer Confidence

By Peter C. Earle The annual ritual known as Black Friday takes on renewed significance in…

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…

US Credit Rating Downgraded, Again

By Peter C. Earle US Treasury debt, the global benchmark for nominally “risk-free” securities, was downgraded…

2021 In 21 Numbers

By Peter C. Earle In 2021, we saw the unwinding of a number of policies and…

Twilight of the NYC Pizza Principle

By Peter C. Earle The correlation between changes in the price of a New York City…

The Great Semiconductor Shortage

By Peter C. Earle Silicon is the crude oil of the Digital Age. Millions of metric…

Setting the Table for Covid-X

By Peter C. Earle The May 11 jobs report took many economic data watchers by surprise.…

India’s Impending War on Crypto

By Peter C. Earle A senior official in the Indian government recently revealed to Reuters that…

The Back Door to Universal Basic Income

By Kristoffer Mousten Hansen and Peter C. Earle The road to hell, an old adage holds,…

The Devastating Economic Impact of Covid-19 Shutdowns

By Amelia Janaskie and Peter C. Earle To this point, the destruction caused by state and…