AIER President Samuel Gregg joins Dan Hugger on the Acton Institute podcast to reflect on the life and influence of Michael Novak. Listen to the full podcast below.

1/4 One year ago, María Oropeza was abducted from her home in Venezuela during a livestream by Maduro's regime. No charges. No trial. All for the crime of speaking out against socialism. While 6 in 10 young New Yorkers now view socialism favorably, María remains in El Helicoide

Mike Viola celebrates the end of Venmo's $600 reporting threshold, which was just an IRS attempt to nickel-and-dime freelancers while reading every American’s Venmo memos. Read his full article at The Daily Economy: thedailyeconomy.org/article/600-re…

AIER's Pete Earle joins NEWSMAX to discuss the CPI rise to 3.1%. Listen now.

3/3 Japan's 1947 constitution succeeded because it: 1) Built on existing Meiji-era constitutional experience 2) Balanced individual rights with communitarian values 3) Established firm civilian control over the military—the missing piece that doomed the earlier system.

A combination of constitutional and commercial fixtures set Japan up for stability and growth, even as its Southeast Asian neighbors struggled. Read the latest at The Daily Economy.

This week at The Daily Economy, our contributors covered everything from PayPal's IRS reporting victory to UN corruption, Japan's 80-year constitutional success, Social Security's $28T crisis, Fed rate cut pressures, and more. Catch up on all the analysis you missed from some of

The CPI report beats expectations in some areas: MoM numbers look strong, YoY overall is cooler thanks to stable gas and oil, but core YoY is hotter than expected as service prices rise. AIER's Pete Earle breaks it down on LiveNOW from FOX.

Even after politically charged revisions, the BLS’s jobs data remains remarkably accurate, off by less than 0.2%, showing its track record is far better than critics claim. David Hebert breaks it down at The Daily Economy: thedailyeconomy.org/article/bad-ne…

The markets are cheering the new CPI report because it suggests the Fed is going to cut rates. AIER's Jason Sorens joins NEWSMAX to discuss

It is by understanding the nature of cooperation that one can see how the evolution of all the other foundations of economics, and even the free market economy itself, was driven by the societal benefits from ever more effective cooperation. David C. Rose breaks this down in his

For all their flaws, bureaucracies tend not to serve parties; they serve themselves. To survive, they must appear neutral and stay above the fray. The moment they are seen as partisan tools, they lose the political cover that protects their budgets, their staff, and their

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nils Hesse, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Walter Eucken Institut, will be an AIER visiting research fellow this Summer. Dr. Hesse’s academic articles have appeared in The Journal of Applied Economics, Intereconomics, and Ordo; they are

Join Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist in Atlanta for our next Salon, where he'll discuss school choice and parental rights. Space is limited. RSVP today. aier.org/event/the-pare…

.Anne bradley explains how ancient lessons in poverty can take us a long way in reforming how we both view the poor and make efforts to help them escape poverty in her latest at The Daily Economy.

We are less than a month away from the Douglas B. Rogers Essay Competition. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to showcase their ideas and compete for cash prizes. Submit your essay by September 15. Details here: aier.org/douglas-b-roge…

The latest economic indicators show a tricky economic picture: - Consumers are still spending, but labor is softening. - Tariffs are pushing costs up, feeding pipeline inflation. - Markets are betting on a Fed rate cut in September, even as officials remain cautious. - The Fed’s

A combination of constitutional and commercial fixtures set Japan up for stability and growth, even as its Southeast Asian neighbors struggled. Read Nikolai G. Wenzel's latest at The Daily Economy: thedailyeconomy.org/article/80-yea…