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  1. The Human Freedom Index 2020

    The Human Freedom Index is the most comprehensive freedom index so far created for a globally meaningful set of countries representing 94 percent of the world’s population. The HFI covers 162 countries for 2018, the most recent year for which sufficient ...

  2. Deep flaw in EU architecture can erase pro-market reforms

    The European Union enjoyed its pinnacle of influence after the Soviet Union collapsed. ...

  3. Atlantic provinces addiction to big government suppresses economic growth

    Sweden compensates for its big government with an open free-market economy and business-friendly laws. ...

  4. New Brunswick’s waning economic freedom part of region-wide crisis

    In 2019, government spending equaled a remarkable 55 per cent of Atlantic Canada's economy. ...

  5. Alberta’s multiple crises include waning economic freedom

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, November 18, 2020 From 2009 to 2015, Alberta proudly ranked first in economic freedom among the 10 Canadian provinces, 50 U.S. states and 32 Mexican states. But according to the Fraser Institute’s new Economic Freedom of North ...

  6. Economic Freedom of North America 2020

    Economic Freedom of North America 2020 is the sixteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2018, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and ...

  7. China’s attack on Hong Kong’s freedom must be fully exposed

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 14, 2020 In a recent New York Times op-ed, Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong’s Executive Council (essentially the cabinet of Hong Kong’s government), defended the Chinese Communist Party’s assault on freedom in Hong ...

  8. Ottawa reducing value of money and spending billions

    Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, October 7, 2020 I may be a billionaire, but I feel short-changed. With better timing, I would have been a trillionaire. A few years back, I attended a talk by a Zimbabwean economist. He finished by passing out $10 billion ...

  9. Economic freedom under threat globally

    Appeared in National Newswatch, September 10, 2020 Two troubling questions lurk behind the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2020 Economic Freedom of the World report, released Sept. 10. This year’s report is based on 2018 data (the most recent available) ...

  10. 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 ...