SpokenLayer June 23, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 23, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. It’s Not Regulation that Keeps Our Food Safe By Art Carden Everyone knows the story: Never take candy from a stranger. Or get in the car with a stranger. Or make eye contact with a stranger. After all, you don’t know who they are. They’re strangers.

SpokenLayer June 22, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 22, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. The Fed Should Be Independent but Is Not Thomas Hogan A fundamental tenet of macroeconomics is that central banks should be allowed to conduct monetary policy independent of short-term politics.

SpokenLayer June 19, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 19, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. D.C.’s Iron Curtain of Secrecy By James Bovard The Trump administration is threatening to sue John Bolton for unauthorized disclosures in his new book dishing dirt on Trump from their private discussions when Bolton was National Security Advisor.

This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 18, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. Tear Down this Plexiglass! By Anthony Gill Plexiglass. They put up plexiglass between us. This may not turn out well. Allow me to explain. On Monday, June 16, I was finally given government permission to return to the gymnasium that I had been affiliated with for over two decades.

SpokenLayer June 17, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 17, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. Easing Restrictions Boosts Retail Sales in May By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food-services spending posted a record gain in May, rising 17.7 percent from the prior month following a 14.7 percent drop in April and an 8.2 percent decline in March.

SpokenLayer June 16, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 16, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. The State Is Being Itself By Michael Munger A few years ago, a federal government scientist entered a DC Metro station eating a candy bar. A DC Transit cop noticed this (they were passing on escalator, down vs. up) and admonished the scientist.

SpokenLayer June 15, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 15, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. The Modelers Thought of Everything Except Reality By AIER As a site focused on economics, AIER would rather have stayed away from commentary on diseases and their mitigation. In normal times, we would have.

This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 12, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. Keep the Fed Out of Municipal Finance By Thomas Hogan The Federal Reserve has taken extreme actions in response to the coronavirus outbreak and lockdown.

SpokenLayer June 11, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 11, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. Make Police Part of the Market By Pete Earle A few years back I took my kids to an amusement park on Coney Island. Under the early afternoon July sun, already sticky with sweat, I turned upon hearing a shouting match near the ticket booths.

SpokenLayer June 10, 2020 This is the spoken edition of the American Institute for Economic Research for June 10, 2020. A longer text version is hosted at AIER.org, along with many other articles. World Health Organization Walks Back Claim about Asymptomatic Spread By Jeffrey Tucker People are so bored with COVID-19 these days that it takes a special kind of disease news to light up the Internet.