by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I have a three-part series (here, here, and here) about a likely fiscal crisis hitting Europe. As a matter of fact, I don’t actually think it is “likely.” It’s a given at this point. The only mystery is which domino falls first. My pessimism is based on...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2025 | Blogs, Europe
I left Iceland this morning, where I spoke at a conference examining whether that island nation in the North Atlantic should join the European Union. My speech focused on the European Union’s economic performance (which is anemic and on...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that is infamous for its efforts to hinder tax competition. The bureaucrats basically want to export the anti-competitive...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
More than 10 years ago, I warned that Ukraine was suffering from statism. In that column, I compared Ukraine’s economic anemia to Poland’s economic rebound and explained the gap was due to Poland’s pro-market reforms. That same year, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2025 | Blogs, Free Market, Trade
Back in 2018, I wrote a column about trade and “comparative advantage.” Let’s delve further into the issue with this video from Kite & Key. Just like “creative destruction,” people don’t intuitively understand comparative advantage. In the video, I...
