by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I put a lot of focus on “convergence” and “divergence” because economic theory says rich countries should not grow faster than poor countries. So when there are examples of divergence, especially when looking at decades of data, we can learn very important...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
For those who want Javier Milei to restore Argentinian prosperity, I shared this video on August 26 about the importance of Argentina’s mid-term elections in October. Unfortunately, there was an early test yesterday in the province of Buenos Aires and it did not go...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When I wrote about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a few months ago, here was my main takeaway. Mamdani is an AOC-style hard-core leftist who wants to travel in the wrong direction as far and as fast as Javier Milei is traveling...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I wrote two days ago to explain that America’s fiendishly complex tax system means we not only have to give lots of our money to the IRS, but we also have to endure aggravation, uncertainty, and expense as part of the process. Two weeks ago, I wrote...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 5, 2025 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Back in 2012, I mocked French politicians because they were whining about upper-income taxpayers escaping from France. That column discussed well-to-do French taxpayers moving to Belgium, which is also a high-tax welfare state, but has the advantage of...
