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...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I periodically look at issues (social security, education, infrastructure, TSA, etc) to compare the private sector and the public sector. This new video from John Stossel gives us another example. The video reminds us that incentives matter....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 10, 2021 | Blogs, Education
The case for school choice is very straightforward. Monopoly government school systems cost a lot of money and do a bad job. The interests of the education bureaucracy rank higher than the educational needs of kids. Poor...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2021 | Blogs, Society
I have a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) that explains why it’s much better to focus on fighting poverty rather than fretting about inequality. I also think that our friends on the left who fixate on inequality are...
