Peter C. Earle
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index Levels Off in December 2025
Note: The December 2025 readings for both the Consumer Price Index and the Everyday Price Index should be viewed as…
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Five Years After GameStop: What the Squeeze Actually Changed
In early 2021, a declining video game retailer unexpectedly became the epicenter of one of the most extraordinary episodes in…
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Trump’s Maduro Move: Geopolitics Has Returned to Energy Markets
The US seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is being framed publicly as a counternarcotics and democracy-restoration operation. But it…
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Even Elon’s Techno-Utopia Won’t Make Money Meaningless
Elon Musk recently put forth a bold vision: that within two decades, AI will automate virtually all productive activity, work…
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AIER Holiday Index: Pandemic Policies Still Raising Prices
Over the five years since the COVID pandemic, the AIER Year End Holiday Index has climbed by an average of…
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Business Conditions Monthly: October Showed Slowing Inflation, Waning Momentum
As this report goes to press, 14 of the 24 components of the Business Conditions Monthly lack published data beginning…
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AIER’s Everyday Price Index: Modest Deflation After Ten Months of Gains
Note: The October-November readings for both the Consumer Price Index and the Everyday Price Index should be viewed as provisional…
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Denying the Affordability Crisis Won’t Change the Data
A new wave of public polling and media coverage suggests that the Trump administration’s claim that “there is no affordability…
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Escape Velocity: Why America’s 1963 Poverty Math Is Broken
In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from…
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Business Conditions Monthly September 2025: Data Blackout
The longest federal shutdown in US history has created deep gaps in the flow of economic data, preventing calculation of…
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