Patrick Tyrrell is a research coordinator in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for International Trade and Economics.
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“Heirs of a cold war, That’s what we’ve become. Inheriting troubles, I’m mentally numb.” —Ozzy Osbourne Those song lyrics from a different time (1980) in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Biden Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed requiring publicly traded companies to not only calculate and report their own greenhouse gas emissions but those… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Economic freedom in the United States is on a perilous journey. The U.S. fell five places in The Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Index of Economic Freedom,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The misappropriation of the economic freedom of millions of mom-and-pop investors by BlackRock Inc. CEO Larry Fink has unintended consequences. “We have a new bunch… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Sen. Mike Lee joined Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts for an important speech and timely discussion about the importance of economic freedom. In the March… Read More
EconomyCommentary
New Zealand has long been considered an economically free country. The government’s stringent, almost straightjacket-like COVID-19 restrictions, however, run counter to New Zealand’s multidecade history… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The 2022 Index of Economic Freedom—a cross-country study by The Heritage Foundation measuring the economic governance and entrepreneurial environments of 177 countries—went public Monday. The… Read More
EconomyCommentary
If common sense and reports from thousands of employers weren’t enough, a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper found conclusively that paying people not… Read More
EconomyCommentary
More small-business owners expect bleaker business conditions six months from now than expect to see an improvement—35% more, to be exact. That is the somber… Read More
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A recent report by the World Trade Organization revealed that “despite a slowdown in new trade restrictions unrelated to the pandemic, the stockpile of unrepealed… Read More
