Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. The positive relationship between economic freedom and ...

Freedom is the right to make your own decisions and guide your life as you please (for good or ill) in the absence of outside ...

Conflicts are not inherent in the operation of an unhampered market economy. There are conflicts between citizens because the ...

For those who confuse correlation with causation, a friend would joke that playing basketball in the NBA makes you taller. Previous articles have shown that greater economic freedom correlates with ...

On June 3, AEI hosted former Senator Phil Gramm and George Mason University’s Donald J. Boudreaux for a discussion with AEI President Robert Doar on the authors’ new book, The Triumph of Economic ...

WASHINGTON – The Heritage Foundation released its latest edition of the annual Index of Economic Freedom today. The 2025 Index, which covers economic policies and conditions in 184 countries from the ...

Prominent leaders from corporations and the community in Montgomery, Alabama, partner with the National Business League to digitize 1 million Black businesses to form the “The Black Economic Freedom ...

For a moment on April 9, the average U.S. tariff rate leapt to 32%, making American consumers the highest tariffed people in the world. For the next 90 days, the average U.S. tariff rate will be about ...

In a study published earlier this year, we highlighted the fact that New Mexico was the only state in the U.S. to have lost economic freedom since 1981. We now know that it is worse than we thought.

For a moment on April 9, the average U.S. tariff rate leapt to 32%, making American consumers the highest tariffed people in the world. For the next 90 days, the average U.S. tariff rate will be about ...

Prominent leaders from corporations and the community in Montgomery, Alabama, partner with the National Business League to digitize 1 million Black businesses to form the “The Black Economic Freedom ...