 In addition, AIER strives to recognize a difference between democracy and freedom.AIER is critical of tariffs and trade wars, including the Trump administration's China–United States trade war.Scott A. Burns, writing for AIER, has written that if "we are stuck in a suboptimal world where tariffs and trade wars are here to stay, an NGDP-targeting regime would do a better job of minimizing fluctuations in real output than an inflation-targeting regime."