Healthcare premiums in 2027 for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) are going up once again at an exceptionally elevated rate. As has been the case in all the years since the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Last week, the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) won a provincial election after a lengthy hiatus out of power. The new distribution of seats in Quebec’s legislative assembly looks like this. As viewers ...

In the months after problems in the subprime loan market surfaced in March 2008 and Bear Stearns collapsed, financial markets ignored the early warning signs of unfolding financial system trouble.

The Treasury Department will release the official tally for fiscal year 2026 later this month, but the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has provided a useful early look that is likely to be close to ...

If Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh thinks he has a difficult inflation challenge with Trump breathing down his neck for lower interest rates, he should spare a thought for Christine Lagarde, the ...

It’s been a good week for ancient Greece. On Wednesday, Marco Rubio gave a rousing speech in Athens about what America and “the Western moral imagination” owe to such figures as Socrates and the ...

Autonomous systems—drones and robotics—are becoming central to military capability and industrial competitiveness, and the United States cannot build the full supply chain alone. AEI Nonresident ...

China’s Ministry of Commerce this month released its 2025 bulletin on outbound investment, and, surprise, things look good. Outbound investment climbed 11 percent past $213 billion, a new record. You ...

Troubles seem to be coming to the eurozone economy not as single spies but in battalions. These troubles include an Iranian-induced energy price shock, an onslaught of Chinese exports in the form of ...

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” It’s a great Oscar Wilde line, one policymakers should always keep front of mind. Be ...

The 29th Geneva Report on the World Economy assesses four major challenges currently confronting the global economy. First, global imbalances have re-emerged as a central issue, driven by China’s ...