Every January for the last 16 years, the conservative Heritage Foundation has published an Index of Economic Freedom, ranking the world's nations based on the think tank's arbitrary judgments ...

Global economic freedom is in decline for the third consecutive year. Even traditionally free economies like the United States are slipping, with increased government spending, heavier regulatory ...

Every January for the last 16 years, the conservative Heritage Foundation has published an Index of Economic Freedom, ranking the world's nations based on the think tank's arbitrary judgments.

The 2016 Economic Freedom of the World report published by the Fraser Institute was released recently, with the United States ranked 16 th.This is merely the latest poor ranking in a steady ...

Economic freedom had generally increased slightly in recent years until the COVID-19 pandemic and particularly government policy reactions to it reversed this trend.

Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.

New Hampshire ranks first in the most recent edition of the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA) index. Florida and Tennessee round out the top three.

In 2020, the average national freedom score dropped from 6.94 to 6.77 due to responses to the COVID pandemic. Government spending, inflation, and restrictions on international commerce drove the ...

The Human Freedom Report 2022 compared 165 countries -- 98.1% of the world’s population -- on measures of personal and economic freedom.