by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
A few years ago, advocates of a “basic income” seemed to have a lot of momentum on their side. Nations were holding referendums, presidential candidates were embracing the concept, and even some libertarians were saying nice things about the idea. Being a curmudgeon...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote last December to share the results of a study Robert O’Quinn and I wrote for Canada’s Fraser Institute on pension systems in OECD nations. Our main goal was to show that personal retirement accounts are now surprisingly common,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
I recently wrote about the five potential ways of dealing with Social Security’s simmering crisis and noted that most supposed solutions moved us in the wrong direction on the spectrum. And I wrote less than two months ago about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2025 | Blogs
Over the past 11 months, ever since I introduced my 20th Theorem of Government, I’ve reviewed fiscal data for five countries (China, Greece, France, Brazil, Colombia) and two states (Maryland, Washington). Of those seven examples, only...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Last month, I shared this minute-long video to celebrate Javier Milei’s accomplishments but also to explain that more reforms are needed to unwind the 80-year disaster of Peronism. I won’t rehash Milei’s accomplishments in this column, other than to direct people to...
