Shaking The Nations

The good news is that 117 countries have increased their economic freedom in the past year. The bad news is that none of those countries is called United States of America. These are two of the many messages of the annual Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom. A high freedom score correlates with higher levels of per-capita income, higher levels of growth and lower levels of poverty and privation. We know that the U.S. has been trending away from freedom for the past few years, that Canada is now the freest nation in the North American region, and...