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17 March 2023
Joel Griffith, Research Fellow at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, discusses the 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, the metrics used to determine how free economies are across the world, and why the United States continues to slip in the rankings.
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