Trade Agreements Can Advance Economic Freedom
The United States is currently engaged in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations designed to reduce barriers to international trade and investment. The latest text from… Read More
Income Inequality and Life Expectancy
Recently The Washington Post published an article claiming that the “widening gap in life expectancy” among America’s seniors “reflects perhaps the starkest outcome of our… Read More
Economic Freedom Key to Unlocking a Prosperous Arab Future
In the latest issue of the journal Democracy, Michael Wahid Hanna identifies Seven Pillars of the Arab Future. First on his list: economic growth and… Read More
Cyprus Bank Raid: The Decaying Eurozone Is Rotting the European Union
Today, Cyprus’s banks opened for the first time in more than 10 days, after Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades—without seeking approval from his parliament—agreed to bailout… Read More
Cyprus Bank Bailout: Russia Partly to Blame
As Cypriots come to grips with this week’s agreement to bail out its banks, Russian policymakers need to think about why their citizens are involved… Read More
Cyprus: Big Government on a Little Island
The Cyprus bailout fiasco continues, elevating the four-year-old eurozone debt crisis to a new level of volatility and uncertainty. At the core of the debacle… Read More
Government Sugar Policy: Buy High, Sell Low?
It was recently reported that the federal government is considering buying 400,000 tons of sugar to prop up prices for sugar producers. The government would… Read More
President Obama’s Middle East Trip Underscores Need for Economic Freedom
President Obama is in the Middle East this week, two years and three months after Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi unleashed the Arab Spring by… Read More
The Arab Spring: The Need for Private Property Rights
There is more the President could do during his Middle East trip to improve the stability in the region: He should promote economic freedom. The… Read More
Egypt: Too Big to Fail?
As President Obama visits Israel, one of the biggest elephants in the room is the ongoing financial crisis just across the desert in Egypt. Since… Read More
