President Obama and other leaders of the G-20 should be reminded that economic freedom is indispensable in amplifying and cascading the benefits of any plans that may come out of the summit.
In his April 2 testimony before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that "it now appears likely that real gross domestic product will not grow much, if at all, over the first half of 2008 and could even contract slightly."[1] Adding to this guarded assessment of the U.S.