FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
feed-image _
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

 …[more]

August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
[close]
CFIF’s latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
Sign Up
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…
 
Medical Devices Can Turn Deadly
What's the biggest killer in hospitals? Secrecy. That's the bottom line from the Government Accountability…
Read more...
An Imploding Energy Mandate
After just six months, a bipartisan consensus within New York has emerged that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s…
Read more...
 
NATO to US: Yes, Sir, Mr. Trump
Candidate Donald Trump set off a furious controversy when he said NATO countries should pay their "fair…
Read more...
Dodd-Frank: Ripe for Repeal
Stop me if you've heard this before.  It's a tragically recurring tale.  As an economic bubble…
Read more...
 
CFIF U.S. Presidents Quiz
Take our 10-Question Quiz and test your knowledge of our Nation’s Chief Executives. (Answer key…
Read more...
Bumps in the Road: Trump vs. Obama
The resignation of national security advisor Michael Flynn has the anti-Trump media declaring the new…
Read more...
 
Obamacare Repeal Is a Jobs Program
On Saturday, Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders called for nationwide protests to stop…
Read more...
Time for Trump to Hit Campaign Trail
President Trump's many critics say his young administration is a hot mess. His defenders say Trump has…
Read more...
 
Elizabeth Warren For President
First of all, despite the martyr act, no one has the power to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren. And that's…
Read more...
Another Kind of Resistance
There is no way to prove this, but see if you agree with me: The average American parent would be glad…
Read more...
More Commentary...
Notable Quote   
 
"Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, former Fidelity Investments head Robert Pozen wrote what he always has, and that countless budget and Social Security scolds have written before him. According to Pozen and a Rose Bowl-sized collection of commentators who've come before and who've yet to come, a combination of benefit cuts and 'revenue measures' (yes, tax increases on the richest…[more]
  
 
— John Tamny, Editor of RealClearMarkets, President of the Parkview Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Market Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.