There is an old Wall Street joke about a man jumping off the Empire State building. When asked at the fortieth floor how he was doing, he replied: “So far, so good”. We have ...

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 S. AsnessManaging ...

There was a line in Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address that should have stopped New Yorkers cold. He pledged to replace what he called “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of ...

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Anyone doubting gold’s dominant status as the world’s safe-haven asset has not been paying attention to its superior performance over its rivals. In its best performance since 1979, over the past year ...

The AEI Housing Center aims to monitor market trends through accurate, real-time tracking of house prices. Our new dataset on home price appreciation appears significantly before other indices and ...

James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political advisor, famously said that if there was reincarnation, he would like to return as the bond market. Then he would be able to force governments to do whatever ...

Everyone is talking about the decision by the board of the Kennedy Center to rename the institution the Trump Kennedy Center. It would appear that the move was illegal: Most commentators agree that an ...

House Republican leaders have assembled a health care bill with familiar provisions as a counter to the Democrats’ push to extend premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance enrollment.

Texas has been taking us all on a wild ride for the midterm elections. There’s obviously the gerrymandering wars that were touched off in Austin by the GOP’s mid-decade land grab. We’re a long way ...

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