Commentary

Economic Freedom Index: U.S. Stabilizes In Trump's First Year

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 08 2018

For eight long years, the United States suffered continual decline in economic freedom under Barack Obama. Anyone seeking causation for the unprecedented economic malaise under his watch need look no further than that measure. At the beginning of 2009, when Obama entered the White House, the U.S. ranked sixth in the Heritage Foundation's annual Index of Economic Freedom, which placed us in the "Free" category. By the time he departed, we had fallen to a record low rank of seventeenth, which reduced us to the "Mostly Free" category. The economic consequences…

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