The U.S. got some discouraging, although not surprising, news today. Our country continues its 15-year fall in economic freedom levels. According to the Economic Freedom of the World: 2015 Annual Report, the U.S. now ranks 16th compared with other nations measured — down from 2ndplace in 2000. The decline has been rapid, but to economists […]

This summer has been marked by an increased interest in the health and management of Alabama’s public pension system, the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA). Sparked by upsetting revelations that the RSA owned almost half of a company involved in human trafficking, the resulting concern and inquiries into the RSA by the public, state leaders […]