by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2021 | Blogs, Free Market
I explained a few days ago that Sunday’s presidential runoff in Chile should be viewed as the most important election of 2021. This is because the left’s candidate, Gabriel Boric, wants to turn Chile into Venezuela, as I mention in this radio interview with Ross...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
If you’re a policy wonk, you’ll enjoy this history of how government regulation has hindered the development of telecommunications technology. I want to focus on the part of the video, beginning about 30:00, which discusses “net neutrality.” The interview with...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
The fight over President Biden’s budget, the so-called Build Back Better plan, has revolved around very important issues. The adverse impact of expanding the welfare state, particularly the per-child handouts.The anti-growth...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
If you want visual proof of Chile’s “improbable success,” this chart tells you everything you need to know. Thanks to free-market reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, growth exploded, Chile became the Latin Tiger and poverty plummeted. It’s remarkable how...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I wrote two days ago about how the Supreme Court will be ruling in the next few months on a very important school-choice case, involving whether state and local governments should be allowed to discriminate against religious schools. As part of that column, I...
