The Country Where Economic Freedom Has Grown the Most Over the Last Two Decades
By Dr. Rainer Zitelmann Vietnam continues to gain economic freedom, as confirmed by the latest edition of the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom ranking….
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Ireland’s Astonishing Economic Growth Holds an Important Lesson
By Lawrence W. Reed St. Patrick’s Day makes this week a perfect opportunity for an update on Ireland and the Irish. Recent developments in the…
Don’t Call It Capitalism: The Fed’s $8 Trillion Hoard of Financial Assets
By Ryan McMaken It’s a sure bet that as the economy worsens, unemployment surges, foreclosures rise, defaults climb, and economic misery ensues, we’ll be told…
Price Controls Will Likely Make A Comeback — Even Though They Don’t Work
By Tyler Durden As anybody who lived through the oil crisis of the 1970s (and the stagflation that resulted) will likely tell you, using price…
The Rise Of The New Socialism — And What You Can Do About It
By Thorsten Polleit I. THE STARTING CONDITIONS In this article I want to explain that a rapid departure from the free market system (or what…
Global Governance Versus Freedom And Free Enterprise
By Lipton Matthews When assailing global governance, pundits rarely comment on its impact on small countries. Yet the degree to which small countries are ignored…
Mapped: Economic Freedom Around The World
By Tyler Durden How would you define a country’s economic freedom? The cornerstones of economic freedom by most measures are personal choice, voluntary exchange, independence…
Here’s Why U.S. Supply Chain Problems Will Only Get Worse
By Brandon Smith It is an economic rule which free market philosophers like Adam Smith have tried to explain to governments and monopolists for centuries:…
Stanford Study: More Businesses Have Already Fled California This Year Than in All of 2020
By Brad Polumbo California is in decline. The Golden State lost population in 2020 for the first time in decades, and the exodus included celebrity…
Macroeconomic Data Is a Tool for Government Intervention
By Frank Shostak It is common for commentators and economists to refer to something called the “economy,” which sometimes performs well and at other times poorly….
Black Market Fridays – “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report You’ve heard of Cash Fridays. How about Black Market Fridays? On this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James introduces the idea for setting…
Mortgage Companies Cash in on Pandemic Relief
By Doug French The nation’s billionaires are catching plenty of grief for profiting from the pandemic. All they are guilty of is providing services people…
The Labor Shortage Is a Government-Contrived Scarcity
By Richard M. Ebeling Not long ago, my wife and I decided to go out to our favorite Thai restaurant not far from our home…
Rent Control Is Making a Comeback in US Cities — Even as It Is Proving a Disaster in Europe
By Jon Miltimore Theresa Dolata’s voice broke when she urged Minneapolis city leaders to support amendments that would give council members the authority to regulate…