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America's Declining Economic Liberty, and its Cause
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America's Declining Economic Liberty, and its Cause

The Moral Foundations of Economic Freedom: Understanding America's Declining Liberty

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Craig Biddle
Oct 08, 2015
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The Fraser Institute has published its Economic Freedom of the World Index for 2015, and, as the Charles Koch Institute reports, the numbers for America are ugly.

The United States—which in 2000 was ranked 2nd (Hong Kong was 1st)—is now “16th of the 157 countries surveyed for five major indicators of freedom, such as size of government, freedom to trade …

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