It’s totally understandable that anyone who supports an economic system built around the idea of free enterprise—private businesses making decisions based on price and profit signals in a competitive ...

Board of Trustees AEI is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading business and financial executives. Daniel A. D’Aniello, ChairmanCofounder and Chairman EmeritusThe Carlyle Group Clifford ...

The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 has hit $2.6 trillion. Verifiable investment recovered from COVID and zero-COVID but has not gone back anywhere close to ...

Housing markets are inherently local and national data can obfuscate important local trends. While some metros continue to benefit from tailwinds in the form of lower home prices, growing economies or ...

• The share of appraisal waivers for both GSEs combined for March 2026 stood at 28%, up from last month and down 21 ppts. from the series’ peak in March 2021. • The recent rise in waiver usage is ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

The annual United States homeless population estimates for 2024 were released last week. Homelessness grew by a record 18% annually in 2024, following a then record 12% increase in 2023. As shown in ...

In a recently issued executive order, President Trump called on the Department of Defense (DoD) to submit a plan for the “development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors capable of ...

Two months ago, in November 2025, President Trump directed the US Department of Justice to investigate allegations of price-fixing and collusion in the US meatpacking industry. In a Truth Social post, ...

*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1 Column 2 presents the results of the same equation but applied to 2026 alone—the results are broadly similar. As Figure 2 indicates, this equation tracks recent ...

Five years ago, President Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, stood all but alone against the Democratic drive for student loan forgiveness. The conventional wisdom at the time was that ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its latest demographic projections for the United States over the next 30 years. The size and composition by age and gender of the US population ...