continued from page I heard defeat in his voice. The next day, we called a guy with a small backhoe and paid him hundreds of dollars to dig out the worst of the bamboo. For the next three months, we patrolled that yard like security guards, hunting down every new shoot and killing it with a sprayer filled with highpotency brush killer. It was exhausting work, and we had to stay on top of ...

continued from page sures economic freedom through five components — size of government, regulation, functionality of the legal system, management of the nation’s currency and freedom to trade. Then over 160 countries around the world are measured by the index of economic freedom that emerges from this. Per the most recent results, the top 25% of countries in economic freedom scor...