Aaron Nathans

Views From the Stone House Windows

There’s nothing like seeing the sun rise from the windows of the Stone House, the centerpiece of AIER’s scenic campus in the Berkshires. I took these photos this morning.

Economic Anxiety and Trump’s Victory

We’ve written a fair bit about “economic anxiety,” which is concern about one’s economic future. That’s as opposed to the current state of the overall U.S. economy, which by our measure and most others, has been on a slow-growth trajectory. According to our most recent edition of Business Conditions Monthly, our business cycle indicators are well above neutral, which “provides solid evidence that the risk of recession in the months ahead has diminished.”