Raymond C. Niles

Senior Fellow

Raymond C. Niles is a Senior Fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research. He holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason University and an MBA in Finance & Economics from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Prior to embarking on his academic career, Niles worked for more than 15 years on Wall Street as a senior equity research analyst at Citigroup, Schroders, and Goldman Sachs, and as managing partner of a hedge fund investing in energy securities. Niles has published a book chapter and numerous articles in scholarly and popular publications.

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3/3/20

Anti-Gouging Laws Can Kill

Much has been made in the media about the Surgeon General’s recent Twitter exhortation, “Seriously people – STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general [sic] public from catching Coronavirus.” But what is usually left out is the rest of his tweet, “…but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick…
10/23/19

The Solution to Blackouts and Wildfires in California

It is time to liberate electric utility customers and bring innovation back to the once innovative electric utility industry that was pioneered by great inventors and businessmen such as Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse.
6/14/19

The Constitution Gives the Trade Power to Congress Alone

Because this is a tool the president can actually use — and because it bypasses the much more difficult task of having to persuade Congress of the merits of his ideas — Trump is using the tariff weapon more and more to address matters further and further removed from trade.
1/30/19

If You Are Warm Right Now, Thank Capitalism

I am lucky to be alive. It would take me just a couple of hours to die from hypothermia if I were outside in such weather.
1/24/19

What a Dictator Does to an Economy

The modern idea of freedom was born with the rise of the commercial economy and the independence of its business sector. That independence should be sacrosanct.
1/14/19

Climate Change and the Power of Scaremongering

The credulous manner in which cavalier economic predictions are made and the misuse of statistical methods makes me wonder at the level of care used in the other statistics cited in the global warming debate.