by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Yesterday’s column was about a new report from Olivier De Schutter, a bureaucrat at the United Nations who has the grandiose title of being the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Mr. De Schutter claims that the welfare state (he calls it “social...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
In 2018, I shared a visual that I referred to as the western world’s “most depressing chart.” It showed how the welfare state exploded in size after World War II and is now an enormous fiscal burden. This has been bad news for taxpayers, of course, but...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Government Spending
Building on yesterday’s column, let’s look at some more data about the “improbable success” of Switzerland. We’ll start with a comparison of per-capita GDP, showing Switzerland out-performing other nations (I’ve shared similar...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2025 | Blogs, Free Market
I’ve shared a two-part video series (here and here) on the “improbable success” of Switzerland. Building on that, here’s a report from CNBC about the “world’s best nation.” There are many reasons to admire Switzerland. Most individual liberty...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
Back in 2022, I wrote a column about how major central banks had caused prices to spike by engaging in reckless monetary policy. I included charts showing massive expansions of central bank balance sheets by the U.S. Federal Reserve,...
