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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Congressional Budget Office released its new long-term projections for Social Security’s finances. Surprisingly, the CBO found that Social Security’s 75-year shortfall declined, from 4.71% to 4.55 ...
Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I serve ...
Ten years after enrolling her daughter in a struggling Brooklyn school, Nikole Hannah-Jones recently reflected on that decision and her daughter’s choice to attend a selective public high school. AEI ...
Mounting evidence presages a change in China’s AI strategy. Ever since Premier Li Qiang proposed China’s “AI Plus” initiative in 2024, Beijing has generally treated AI as a normal technology and ...
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 ...
Myth: Most low-income children live in apartments. Market Reality: Nine out of ten children in low-income renting households live in homes with at least two bedrooms, and about two-thirds of these ...
Being early is the same as being wrong. It’s a Wall Street adage worth keeping in mind when evaluating extravagant claims about the potential economic impact of artificial intelligence. Caution is ...
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 ...