To create private-sector jobs and raise wages for those now working, we must make America a magnet for investment from abroad. A trade agenda to promote exports is one piece of competing in a global economy, but without an aggressive campaign to draw in foreign investors’ resources, the United States will miss key employment and economic growth opportunities.

This article is the first to show that foreign investors care about economic freedoms, rather than political freedoms, in making decisions about where to locate capital. Hence more democratic countries may receive less Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows if economic freedoms are not guaranteed.

How can American firms benefit from the ECFA? How will Taiwan ensure continued economic growth in the years ahead? Christina Liu, minister of Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development, will address these and other questions at this AEI event.

A new report by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) argues that one of the greatest mistakes the United States can make is to imagine that Iranian activities in a given arena--the nuclear program, for example--are isolated from Iranian undertakings in another. The report examines those other areas

Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?