Shortly after beginning his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop a homeland air and missile defense system, later named ...
Event Summary On February 2, AEI convened a conference with the Ukrainian Institute of the Future on the future of Ukraine, opportunities for a peaceful end to the conflict with Russia, and the ...
That the stock market is holding up well now despite the gathering storm clouds for the US and world economies is reminiscent of the stock market’s robust performance in the run-up to the 2020 ...
With a new introduction that addresses the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, Men Without Work, casts a spotlight on the collapse of work for ...
President Trump's long-standing chase for deals with China has pushed the US to avoid hard choices, only to get burned later.
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The new limits on graduate student borrowing enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) mark a decisive shift away from the era of effectively unlimited federal lending. To understand why, it ...
Requirements intended to promote competition in contracting have made the performance of government worse, not better. Using federal procurement of computer systems as his model, the author shows the ...
Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...
The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...
The standard portrayals of economic life for ordinary Americans and their families paint a picture of stagnancy, even decline, amidst rising income inequality or joblessness. But rarely does the ...
Having worked on emerging markets for many years, first at the IMF and then on Wall Street, I can recognize an economy on the road to a crisis. It pains me to say that the United States appears to be ...