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1. Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report

   The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary ex-change, freedom to ...

2. China looks to douse freedom in Hong Kong

   The Communist Party of China (CPC) recently ordered large-scale arrests of dissidents and imposed a security law, which attacks Hong Kong’s Basic Law (effectively, a freedom-protecting constitution) by bypassing Hong Kong’s Legislative ...

3. Indiana Climbing in Economic Freedom Rankings

   Appeared in The Center Square, March 17, 2020 The Fraser Institute has released its annual study on economic freedom in North America. There’s good news for Indiana, but there’s also work to do. Before we dig into the good news and the to-do list, it may ...

4. Freedom under attack in India

   Appeared in the Policy Times, January 30, 2020 To quell a nationwide backlash against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) that India’s parliament passed last month, Indian authorities denied people the right to protest and raise their voices. In doing ...

5. Baltic states continue march towards markets despite rocky road

   After revolutions swept across Eastern Europe three decades ago, communism was counting its final days in more than two dozen countries on the verge of leaving socialism behind and welcoming a market economy. The former socialist ...

6. ‘Mini Schengen’—moving toward freedom and markets

   French President Emmanuel Macron’s spearheading opposition to block European Union accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia during the European Council’s recent fall meeting is not only dangerously and severely undermining the ...

7. Be nice to the price—be very nice to the price

   In the Fraser Institute seminars I and some American friends do for Canadian journalists, introducing them to the basic concepts of economics in two-and-a-half days, we have a section called “Be nice to the price.” In it we show how ...

8. Still moving toward markets 30 years after the Berlin Wall

   Last weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which was not only the start of German reunification, but one of several events that in the months and years to come would see more than 100 ...

9. Economic Freedom of North America 2019

   Economic Freedom of North America 2019 is the fifteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2017, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and ...

10. Hong Kong—withstanding the attack

    Appeared in the New Delhi Times, October 7, 2019 Hong Kong remains in turmoil amid its most contentious political crisis since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule more than two decades ago. Recently, the government used colonial-era emergency legislation ...