by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
As usual (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc), let’s start the year by listing three things I’m hoping for and three things I worry may happen. Let’s start with the potential good news. Here are the three things that plausibly could...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Welfare and Entitlements
Time for the annual “best and worst” column, which has been a long-standing tradition (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc). We actually saw some major good news in 2023. Here are my top 3 developments. President Milei in Argentina – The most...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I sometimes joke about living in a libertarian fantasy world, maybe even a libertarian nation with a libertarian anthem. Amazingly, that is basically what Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, is trying to create. At least the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2023 | Big Government, Economics
As explained by public intellectuals such as Milton Friedman, Johan Norberg, John Stossel, and Orphe Divougny, the argument against minimum wage requirements is very simple. If politicians dictate that people can’t be employed unless they receive,...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2023 | Blogs, Free Market, Trade
As I wrote just two days ago, the establishment media often alternates between bias and inaccuracy. An example from earlier this year is when the press referred to Javier Milei, a presidential candidate in Argentina, as a “Mini-Trump.” That was an...
