The Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 61.1 in September, up 1.2 points from 59.9 percent in August. September is the 16th consecutive...
Inflation remained high in August, latest data show. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Chain-type Price Index (PCEPI) grew at a rate of 4.3 from August 2020 to August...
Imagine a world where police officers regularly confiscate property from civilians, based only on officers’ accusations of criminal conduct. Imagine that these allegations are never examined by...
China has become the latest all-purpose excuse for new spending and regulation in Washington, D.C., and not just for the military. In June, the Senate approved the...
On October 1 last year, China celebrated its 70th anniversary of one-party rule. It was marked by a conspicuous display of military prowess, including the unveiling of...
The Wall Street Journal’s editors have written another great editorial, this time on the expansion of the child tax credit into a Universal Basic Income for children....
Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance totaled 362,000 for the week ending September 25, a rise of 11,000 from the previous week’s tally of 351,000 (see...
Lawyer and author Michael Fumento recently argued in an AIER article that the FDA’s approval of the Covid-19 treatment remdesivir has failed patients and provides another example...
I live in quite a sparsely-populated place, with lots of wilderness and nature. This time of year, we have plenty of late-summer berries in season, and it...
There is only one way to describe the fiscal mindset of those in the White House and in Congress who are proposing new federal budgetary expenditure and...