by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2024 | Latin American Liberty Project, México
Actualmente me encuentro en Ciudad de México realizando algunas reuniones e investigaciones sobre la política económica de México, y lo primero que hice al preparar mi viaje fue consultar la base de datos del FMI para ver qué ha estado sucediendo con la carga del...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
Perhaps the greatest living public intellectual is Thomas Sowell and one of his famous quotes asks our leftist friends to quantify how much of other people’s money they supposedly deserve. Another way of looking at that issue is to ask what’s the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
I explained the benefits of a flat tax in a video 14 years ago. And I’ve since shared two videos (here and here) of Steve Forbes arguing for a flat tax. If those are not enough, here’s a recent presentation I made about tax reform for...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I explained a few months ago how poor nations can converge with rich nations. The recipe for prosperity is actually very simple, as Adam Smith wrote centuries ago. Sadly, most governments don’t follow that recipe, largely because...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I rarely comment about media bias, but sometimes there is an example that demands attention. For today’s column, I want to examine a four-question quiz on the Biden economy put together by the Washington Post. The first...