by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I’ve showered Switzerland with praise in recent months. Now it’s time for more. The 2025 version of the Human Freedom Index has been released and Switzerland has the world’s highest combination of economic and personal...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 12, 2024 | Blogs, Financial Privacy
Earlier this year, I began a column about anti-money laundering laws with four observations. As a libertarian, I don’t like that the government forces banks to spy on customers. As an economist, I don’t like that these laws don’t come close to passing a...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2022 | Blogs
Redistribution is a bad idea primarily because of economics. People getting handouts have less incentive to be productive and people paying taxes to finance that spending have less incentive to be productive. That translates...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I wrote two days ago about a jury correctly voting to acquit a Swiss banker who was being prosecuted (and persecuted) by the government. The jury presumably recognized that it’s not the responsibility of foreign national living in outside the U.S. to enforce our bad...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I haven’t written in any detail about “jury nullification” since late 2010 and it’s time to rectify that sin of omission. Nullification occurs when a jury votes not guilty because a law is either unjust or wrongly applied, not because a defendant is actually innocent....
