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U.S Economic Freedom Declines
The new 2016 Index of Economic Freedom from the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal shows that America’s economic freedom has declined and is the lowest since 1998. Is this…
Index of Economic Freedom
annual index and ranking created in 1995 by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations
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A good way to emulate the Scandinavians
“Why can’t we be more like Europe?” One typically hears that question from a speaker who stands to the left of the political center. But as Oklahoma State professor (and…
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Barron’s writer ties slow U.S. economic growth to loss of freedom
Gene Epstein uses his latest “Economic Beat” column for Barron’s to argue that a loss of economic freedom has helped slow American growth. There were five expansions from 1970 to…
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Coming Out of North Korea
It’s a pretty well-known photograph, a satellite image of the Korean peninsula. The bottom right corner is South Korea, the upper left is China, and the dark expanse in between…
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America is Number 12!
The Heritage Foundation has released its 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, and the results aren’t great for the US. We come in 12th, with particularly low scores in government spending…
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New Heritage Freedom Index due today
The Heritage Foundation is scheduled to release its 2015 Index of Economic Freedom today. Here’s what John Hood had to say about last year’s report. Hundreds of millions of people…
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We’re no 12? Pethokoukis doesn’t buy it
Regular readers in this forum know that the United States has dropped to No. 12 in the Heritage Foundation’s latest worldwide rankings of economic freedom. James Pethokoukis of the American…
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AEI’s Ben Zycher on America’s decline in economic freedom
Ben Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute discusses the importance of our continuing slide in the Index of Economic Freedom here. I wonder how low the US will be by the…
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Murdock laments the American slide in economic freedom rankings
Deroy Murdock explains in his latest column why no American should be excited about chanting “We’re No. 12! We’re No. 12!” The latest milestone in America’s decline is especially demoralizing:…
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Economic Freedom: US falls out of top 10
The 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, produced jointly by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation, has just been released and Obama’s America continues to slide further down the…
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Another good article by Walter Williams
The Freeman reprints today a classic article by Professor Williams on the decline of the rule of law. Since he wrote it back in 2009, the rule of law has…
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U.S. Drops Out Of The Top 10
While other countries commit, or re-commit, to freedom and free markets, the U.S. does the opposite as we endure the impacts of failed economic and social policies that have forced…