Ambassador Terry Miller is director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at The Heritage Foundation.
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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
A new report published in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review provides strong evidence that the Administration’s obsessive focus on boosting exports as… Read More
With a new study pointing the finger at high fructose corn syrup as a culprit in America’s explosive epidemic of obesity, it is important to… Read More
A new study by the international watchdog group Publish What You Fund finds U.S. foreign aid programs lagging seriously in transparency. According to the organization,… Read More
In his October 1 speech to the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, World Bank President Jim… Read More
Former Governor Jennifer Granholm (D–MI) confessed Wednesday to an “obsession” with creating manufacturing jobs in the United States. That is a brave admission, given that… Read More
No one outside of the White House knows exactly why the President decided to move the G-8 meeting this Friday from Chicago to Camp David…. Read More
The deal reportedly reached Thursday to release another 130 billion euro bailout for Greece is just one more temporary fix. Greece will get enough new… Read More
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has been talking up the need for greatly expanded resources to bail out ailing European economies. European nations have offered… Read More
The Obama Administration’s decision to waive provisions of the Jones Act last month when releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is typical of this… Read More
Democracy is the best way we know to choose leaders. Where individuals offering alternative visions or policies compete fairly and honestly for leadership, governments are… Read More
In his State of the Union address, President Obama used innovation as one of the key words in elaborating his vision for America’s economic future…. Read More
President Obama reportedly spent much of his meeting this week with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urging action to revalue the Chinese Yuan relative to the… Read More
Many in the mainstream media are attempting to portray The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review, just released in the UK, as exonerating the researchers. In… Read More
The willingness of some in the media to accept even the most vapid of statements from international leaders as evidence of major policy change provides… Read More
In the often Orwellian world of government policy pronouncements, the Obama economic team is trying for new ground, with “self-sustaining” recovery, understood at least by… Read More
A page on the Canadian Government’s G-20 Toronto Summit website promises payments to citizens “to mitigate adverse financial consequences” as a result of the meeting… Read More
The Greek financial crisis and its spillover effects in Europe provide a scary look at America’s possible economic future if we don’t get our economic… Read More
The tragic events unfolding in Greece, where at least three people have died in political rioting protesting austerity measures being imposed as part of an… Read More
In recent days, some blogging friends from the left have commented on the U.S. dropping from “free” to “mostly free” in the 2010 Index of… Read More
The Fundacion para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales of Spain recently sponsored presentations on the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom (www.heritage.org/index) in Madrid and… Read More
The execution last week of a senior economics official in the North Korean government over a botched currency reform reminds us of that no parody… Read More
The Obama Administration’s 2010 Trade Agenda, unveiled March 1, is a radical departure from traditional American economic policy and values. It abandons not just the… Read More
The President asserted during a major speech in January: “One of the greatest contributions the United States can make to the world is to promote… Read More
The United States is losing ground to its major competitors in the global marketplace, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom released today by… Read More
News reports indicate that the G-20 pledged an additional $1.1 trillion in financing for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other global institutions… Read More
For 15 years, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation have been measuring countries’ commitment to free-market capitalism in the “Index of Economic Freedom.”… Read More
