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Peter C. Earle
Peter C. Earle, PhD, is the director of economics and economic freedom and a senior research fellow at AIER. He has spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at a number of securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area. His research focuses on financial markets, monetary policy, macroeconomic forecasting, and problems in economic measurement. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, NPR, and in numerous other media outlets and publications.
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Recent remarks by Elon Musk have reignited a familiar but increasingly consequential debate about artificial intelligence and the economic future….
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Peter C. Earle | Apr 14, 2026
America’s rare earth vulnerability is widely misunderstood. The problem is not that rare earths are “rare,” nor even that the…
There is a growing, if tentative, sense that Cuba may be approaching an inflection point. Rapidly mounting economic stress owing…
In recent years, policymakers have increasingly treated stock market indices as proxy variables for economic success — a shift that…