by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2022 | Blogs
I’m currently in Tanzania as part of a speaking tour in Africa. My remarks today largely repeated the message I gave to an audience last week in Nigeria. So I won’t bother sharing anything from my presentation. Instead, I want to highlight some numbers from...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2022 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Two weeks ago, I shared my response to the awful school shooting in Texas. The topic of gun control came up once again in a new episode of the Square Circle. Regarding my comments, it’s no surprise that I have a new reason to dislike Justin...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Based on research from the Congressional Budget Office, I’ve shared estimates of the potential economic damage from the fiscal plan Joe Biden unveiled last year. But now he has a new budget. So what if we simply focus on the tax portion of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2022 | Blogs, Education
When I shared the best and worst news of 2021, I expressed happiness about how school choice is spreading across the nation. But it’s not spreading as fast as it should because some establishment Republican state legislators would rather kowtow...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
As far as I’m concerned, the huge reductions in global poverty in recent decades are the only evidence we need about the benefits of economic growth. This chart I shared in 2014 shows that output doubles much faster when annual...
