"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The “Economic Freedom Index” Isn’t
Submitted by Robert Fredericks on Sun, 2010-10-17 03:00
"The United States was 'totally free' economically until this year? That’s enough to suggest, right there, that the Index focuses on a narrow range of 'economic freedom' criteria that are most amenable to corporate power, without looking critically at the forms of state intervention most centrally important for strengthening corporate power."
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