Europe is under attack. On the direct orders of Vladimir Putin, Russia is waging a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism to undermine European support for Ukraine. Sooner or later, Russia’s attacks ...

Brazil’s financial market developments bear watching for the light that they might shed on US and French financial market prospects. Like the US and France, Brazil is on an unsustainable public-debt ...

In a market economy, collusion is an ever-present temptation. Even Adam Smith, perhaps capitalism’s most illustrious forefather, wrote that “people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for ...

Fear that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will invade Taiwan and draw the US into a massive war in the Pacific has for many years driven an increasing American focus on preparing for conflict ...

Day Two: Thursday, October 29th, 2026 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET ...

The AEI Housing Center has added a full day of preconference workshops on Tuesday, October 27, the day before its 15th Annual Housing Center Conference (you can find more details about and RSVP to the ...

• 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 ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has seen dramatic changes in immigration policy, resulting in a sharp slowdown in net migration to the United States. We expect the pattern of ...

Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...

Wars have a way of killing half-truths and lazy cliches. The present conflict in the Middle East is exploding the persistent myth that President Donald Trump’s America is withdrawing from the world.