Over the last 100 years, government spending around the world has grown.
size of government
June 21, 2016
12:43PM
Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of prosperity and growth, and the evidence shows that states with low levels of economic freedom reduce the ability of their citizens to prosper economically.
May 16, 2016
10:47AM
As the saying goes, a moving target is hard to hit. That is why repeated shifts in the federal government’s deficit and debt goals over the past six months have been so concerning.
December 23, 2015
2:08PM
The self-styled “land of the free” is not as free as it once was—or as we in the United States think of ourselves.
May 2, 2015
6:00AM
In a recent column in the Edmonton Journal, a local historian mused that modern governments have become too enamoured with “the unfettered market of purely economic conservatism.” He then equated higher taxes and more government spending with compassion.