For those who confuse correlation with causation, a friend would joke that playing basketball in the NBA makes you taller. Previous articles have shown that greater economic freedom correlates with ...

The ability to choose your job, start a business, own property, or decide how to spend your paycheck may seem natural to most Americans. Yet for billions around the world, the most basic economic ...

The economy has been in the slowest recovery since World War II. That slow growth has coincided with a steady decline in economic freedom as taxes, spending and regulation have all been on the rise.

Economic freedom is one of mankind’s best ideas. It is responsible for more advances in living standards, health, knowledge, multicultural harmony, and social justice than anything else we’ve come up ...

Politicians claim their bills bring us good things. Free health care! Child care! A cellphone for all! But government isn't Santa Claus. Government is force. Most every law takes away a little of our ...

The 2022 Index of Economic Freedom—a cross-country study by The Heritage Foundation measuring the economic governance and entrepreneurial environments of 177 countries—went public Monday. The key ...

Last month, the Fraser Institute put out its annual Economic Freedom of the World report. As usual, it showed that “economic freedom” is positively correlated with many good things and negatively ...

For a moment on April 9, the average U.S. tariff rate leapt to 32%, making American consumers the highest tariffed people in the world. For the next 90 days, the average U.S. tariff rate will be about ...