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Economic Freedom Index: U.S. Plummeted from 6th to 17th Under Obama

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 23 2017

Anyone still perplexed by the economic malaise and popular discontent that characterized the Obama era need look no further than the erosion of economic freedom during his tenure. When Obama entered the White House in 2009, the United States ranked sixth in the Heritage Foundation's annual Index of Economic Freedom. Today, we've sunk to an unprecedented low of seventeenth, and no longer qualify as "free," but rather "mostly free." Each year since 1995, the Index has ranked the world's countries in comparative levels of economic freedom, which it defines…

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