In a new “Economics 101” video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P), Lotta Moberg, graduate student at Lund University, Sweden, explains that the economy of Sweden began to stagnate about 40 years ago because of excessive statism and government spending.

Sweden serves as a powerful example of the importance of public policy. Having once become rich when government was small, this Nordic nation began to stagnate as welfare state policies were implemented in the 1970s and 1980s. This video explains that Sweden is now shifting back to economic freedom in hopes of undoing the damage caused by an excessive welfare state.

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by many of the nation’s most influential free-market and taxpayer groups, has sent to all members of Congress a letter warning about the adverse impact of anti-investment provisions in Senator Reid’s “Jobs” Bill.

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by many of the nation’s most influential free-market and taxpayer groups, has sent every United States Senator a letter warning about the adverse impact of anti-investment provisions in Senator Reid’s “Jobs” Bill. The Coalition for Tax Competition letter highlights the inclusion of provisions taken from the “Foreign […]

A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) discusses how anti-money laundering laws, which require banks to snoop on their customers, are costly and ineffective.

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video examines anti-money laundering laws and finds that they are expensive and intrusive. These costs might be acceptable if the result was less crime, but this mini-documentary reveals that anti-money laundering policies are ineffective. As a former Reagan Administration official remarked, they undermine the fight against crime by misallocating law enforcement resources.

In a new “Economics 101” video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P), Izzy Santa of the Cato Institute uses school choice as an example to explain why competition is better than government-created monopolies. The video entitled, “Economics 101: School Choice Example Shows Why Government Monopolies Are Bad,” examines the data and notes that private schools produce better academic results at a lower cost than government-run schools.

This video uses the example of school choice to explain why competition is preferable to government monopoly.

A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) uses Labor Department data to demonstrate that the first stimulus bill did not create jobs and explains why politicians, in spite of the data, want to enact another so-called stimulus proposal.