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PERMANENT LINK | SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The Decline in U.S. Economic Freedom: The Movie

David Henderson
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Matt Mitchell, a sharp young economist at the Mercatus Center, has come up with a 14 second video that shows the rise and fall of economic freedom over the last 4 decades. Note that the decline was precipitous under Bush the Younger and even more precipitous under Obama.


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