EconomyCommentary
Steeper Tariff on Canadian Softwood Lumber Isn’t Solution
Despite lumber prices soaring to a record high of $1,670.50 per thousand board feet, and the housing market booming at a 17.2% price increase from… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Time to Act on a Trade Deal With Taiwan
In a recent joint letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Finance subcommittee on international trade, customs,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
3 Ways to Improve Trade Freedom During World Trade Month
Since 1948, the U.S. annually has celebrated World Trade Month and World Trade Week in May. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan described World Trade Week… Read More
InternationalCommentary
3 Seas Initiative Matters to America’s Security and Economy
In a recent forum between the U.S. and European Union, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appealed for greater U.S. support for the Three Seas Initiative,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
White House Task Force Is Payoff to Biden’s Union Cronies
With little fanfare, President Joe Biden on April 26 signed yet another executive order, this one establishing a White House task force on “Worker Organizing… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: Speaking Up as Business and Sports Lurch Left
Editor’s note: Many in The Daily Signal’s audience sound fed up with business leaders and sports stars who won’t stop preaching and virtue-signaling to them…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Florida Leads Way on Commonsense Occupational Licensing Reform
Who says that legislatures can’t pass statutes that benefit the public, rather than cronies or special-interest favorites? (Well, I do regularly, but elected officials actually… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why Advancing Trade Freedom Is Key to Cleaner Environment
At last week’s climate summit, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai underscored that “trade policy can be a powerful tool to create incentives for positive competition” as countries… Read More
EconomyCommentary
On Earth Day, Let’s Commit to Speeding Up Growth to Clean Up Earth
April brings Earth Day and, for many of us, spring cleaning. The ideal is to combine both of those concepts. We want to celebrate the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why China Will Remain a Challenge Whether Its Economic Reform Policies Succeed or Fail
A former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund recently warned that China would face huge structural problems in its economy as Beijing falls… Read More
InternationalCommentary
South America Has an Opportunity to Choose Freedom Instead of More Failed Socialist Regimes
The world witnessed two presidential elections in South America on April 11. One of them gave the victory to Guillermo Lasso, now president-elect of Ecuador…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
71% of Amazon Workers Reject Union, but Liberals’ PRO Act Would Undercut That Right to Choose
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted 1,798 to 738 against unionizing under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Even amid an outpouring… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Specter of Rising Inflation Threatens Future Economic Freedom
As the worst and most devastating initial economic impact of the global pandemic begins to fade, nations around the world face a number of challenges… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Lack of Economic Freedom in Central America Spurring Mass Migration
The lack of economic freedom in the countries of the Northern Triangle—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador—has long been a consistent push factor of illegal immigration… Read More
SocietyNews
He Lived Under Socialism in Venezuela. That’s Why He’ll Never Support It.
Andres Guilarte is a university student who lived in Venezuela under a democratically elected socialist regime. Guilarte says food shortages were a daily occurrence. Venezuelans… Read More
EconomyCommentary
‘Fertilizer Taxes’ Will Hurt Farmers and Likely Drive Up Food Prices
If the existing trade disputes with China were not bad enough for American farmers, now another trade action could hurt them. It will also likely… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Meet Hair Salon Owner Who Went to Jail for Opening During COVID-19 Lockdown
Shelley Luther made national news at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic when she was arrested and jailed for a week in the spring of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
US Should Encourage Albania’s Transition to Free Market Economy
March 15 marked the 30th anniversary of the reestablishment of ties between the United States and Albania. Commemorating the occasion, U.S. Ambassador Yuri Kim noted… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How ‘Equal Pay Day’ Compares Apples and Oranges
This year, March 24 marks “Equal Pay Day”—a day that’s supposed to symbolize how far into the new year women must work to earn what… Read More
EconomyCommentary
New Study Finds Economic Freedom Is Key to Curbing Fake News
Economic freedom helps to inhibit the spread of fake news, according to a recent academic paper featured in the European Journal of Information Systems. According… Read More
InternationalCommentary
More Economic Freedom, Greater Herd Immunity in Chile
Although it has faltered, Chile continues to lead South America in having a free economy, according to the 2021 edition of The Heritage Foundation’s annual… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Celebrating the Life of Steve Pejovich, Fighter for Freedom
Every now and then, my sense of loss over the passing of someone I know is offset by the knowledge that they lived a stellar… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Lawlessness Impedes Economic Freedom in Nigeria
In the latest in a series of kidnappings (and even killings) of schoolchildren reported earlier by media outlets, including The Daily Signal, a criminal gang… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Why US-Taiwan Relations Are Partnership for Freedom
The newly published “Interim National Security Strategic Guidance” by the Biden administration underscores that the United States “will support Taiwan, a leading democracy and a… Read More
EconomyNews
2021 Index Finds Rise in Global Economic Freedom, but US Score Falls
America’s economic freedom ranking has fallen to an all-time low, according to The Heritage Foundation’s 2021 Index of Economic Freedom. The United States fell three… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Fox Business’ Charles Payne Assesses Where US Headed at Launch of 2021 Index of Economic Freedom
Charles Payne of the Fox Business Network sat down with Jack Spencer, vice president of the Institute for Economic Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Advancing Economic Freedom Matters More Than Ever, 2021 Index Shows
The year 2020 was extraordinary for the global economy, with slowing growth and economic turmoil caused and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which engulfed the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
With Peronists Back in Power, Inflation Up and Economic Freedom Down in Argentina
The results of The Heritage Foundation’s 2021 edition of the Index of Economic Freedom will be announced soon. But here is a sneak peek: economic… Read More
InternationalCommentary
How Biden, Trudeau Can Improve US-Canada Relations
In his first bilateral meeting with a foreign leader since taking office, President Joe Biden met virtually with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Economic Freedom Is Key to Enhancing Relationship Between Sri Lanka and US
Speaking on the 73rd Independence Day of Sri Lanka on Feb. 4, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa observed: “The foundation of our citizen-centric economic policy is that… Read More
