by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2026 | Blogs, Government Spending
Part I of this series focused on the horrible economic conditions that led to Javier Milei’s election in late 2023. For Part II, let’s start with this segment from an interview I did last week while in Slovenia. In less than two minutes, I tried to summarize Milei’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2026 | Blogs
Given my enthusiasm for Javier Milei and his libertarian reforms, I’m excited to be in Buenos Aires for a week-long program on “Understanding Argentina’s Transformations Under Milei.” This means a heavy does of Milei-ism this week....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2026 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
I have three-video primers on price gouging and public choice, so I may as well do the same thing for the 2008 financial crisis (click here for Part I). We’ll start with a video from Peter Wallison, which correctly notes how housing subsidies...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 13, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Why does the United Kingdom have very foolish tax policies? Well, it does have remarkably clueless politicians. But let’s also put part of the blame on the country’s suicidally stupid voters. Consider this new polling data. Big majorities of Labour and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2026 | Blogs, Europe, Taxation
I frequently make the point that America’s tax system is more progressive than European tax systems. But not because the United States imposes higher tax rates on upper-income households. Instead, the big difference is that lower-income...