Too bad our Treasury Department doesn't read the riot act to the IMF and tell it to push pro-prosperity policies, such as low taxes, stable money, property rights, easing regulations for starting a business (in many countries it takes years to get all the licenses--and experts wonder why people operate outside the system) and reducing trade barriers internally and externally.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Governments support innovation best by funding basic research and setting and enforcing the "rules of the game" things like laws, regulations and property rights.

WSJ: The Experts: What Role Does Government Play in Innovation?

The publication surveys 178 economies and ranks them in ten critical areas essential to economic growth, such as taxation, property rights, enforcement of contracts and labor market regulations.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Some would naturally respond that it's similarly a violation of property rights when investors are bailed out on the backs of taxpayers, so regulations requiring more collateral to support risky deals are necessary to save us from investor mistakes that we'll be made to pay for.

FORBES: Political Economy

In many places, class warfare has gone much farther with suffocating regulations, exchange controls, asset seizures, arbitrary imprisonment and other measures that suppress private property rights and throttle a market economy.

FORBES: Class Warfare: The Mortal Enemy Of Economic Growth And Jobs