In December 2024, the AIER Business Conditions Monthly indicators continued to show strength in leading and current economic activity, though the lagging components pointed to signs of underlying weakness. The Leading Indicator remained elevated at 71, holding steady near its November level of 79 and

On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will be reducing its negotiated proportion of grant funding that goes to overhead, or “indirect costs,” to 15 percent across the board.  Indirect costs are basically fungible dollars that a research institution can spend

Examples of government waste are a dime a dozen these days. From the debacles over the $640 toilet seats in the Pentagon and the Air Force’s $1,300 coffee mugs and little-known Agricultural Marketing Service using the even-less-known Watermelon Research and Promotion Act of 1985 to

Private equity (PE) firms play a vital role in the life cycle of private firms. They improve operational efficiency and restructure businesses to enhance productivity and profitability. Their strategies typically involve streamlining operations, eliminating redundancies, and focusing (or frequently refocusing) companies on their core competencies,