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Biden Decisions ‘Corrode Our Freedom’
Anthony Kim writes for the Washington Examiner about the cost of Biden administration policies. America’s economic freedom is in growing peril. That was one of the core findings of The…
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
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Economic freedom on the rebound
Anthony Kim explains at the Daily Signal that American economic freedom has improved dramatically over the past year. The U.S. economy is roaring like no other time in recent memory.…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Sweden, Denmark succeeded because of capitalism, not socialism
Julia Howe and Anthony Kim explain in a Daily Signal column why those who proclaim support for socialism should think twice before citing Sweden and Denmark to support their claims.…
Liberty
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…
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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…
Elections & Public Integrity
Barron’s ‘Economic Beat’ writer compares Trump to Sanders
Gene Epstein‘s latest “Economic Beat” column for Barron’s assesses the economic literary of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Political campaigns can breed strange bedfellows, especially…
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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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You might be a progressive if….
If you gripe about how “the economy” is harming poor people but ignore the fact that we keep sliding when it comes to economic freedom. As the author of this…
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America’s World Ranking in Economic Freedom
Just how much freedom do we have at our leisure within our nation’s economy? According to this this annual report by the Heritage Foundation we are not as free as we…