“Now considered only a ‘mostly free’ economy, the U.S. has earned the dubious distinction of having recorded one of the longest sustained declines in economic freedom, second only to Argentina, of any country in the [20-year] history of the Index. The U.S. is the only country to have recorded a loss of economic freedom each of the past seven years.”

– From the most recent report of the Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom