Anyone doubting gold’s dominant status as the world’s safe-haven asset has not been paying attention to its superior performance over its rivals. In its best performance since 1979, over the past year ...

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A recent federal appellate court decision in favor of a public high school student’s online, off-campus First Amendment speech rights reins in a school’s authority to police and punish offensive ...

Against the background of the parlous state of US and Japanese public finances, there are already clear signs suggesting that next year we will see the return of the bond market vigilantes in a way ...

Texas has been taking us all on a wild ride for the midterm elections. There’s obviously the gerrymandering wars that were touched off in Austin by the GOP’s mid-decade land grab. We’re a long way ...

As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock ...

The AEI Housing Center aims to monitor market trends through accurate, real-time tracking of house prices. Our new dataset on home price appreciation appears significantly before other indices and ...

In this blog post, I briefly discuss its direct costs, its fairness, the fraud it engenders, and its adverse consequences for work incentives and for the cost and functioning of the health care system ...

I have NCAR to thank for my entire career. I worked at NCAR as a FORTRAN programmer in the late 1980s while an undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Colorado, just down the hill. NCAR is ...

With the November 2026 midterm elections front and center in the minds of White House politicos, the Trump administration has conveniently announced a $12 billion increase in ad hoc government ...