by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2019 | Blogs, Trade
Earlier this year, I shared a short video about the benefits of the World Trade Organization. Here’s a more substantive version (though still only four minutes). I wanted to keep the video short, so I focused primarily on how the United States disproportionately...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
I get quite agitated when the folks in Washington make dumb choices that waste money and hinder prosperity. That being said, I take comfort in the fact that governments in other nations also do stupid things. I guess this is the policy version of “misery loves...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve opined that statist policies harm young people. I also shared this video explaining why big government is bad for millennials and the Gen-Z crowd. This should be a slam-dunk issue. After all, don’t they know how the communist world collapsed? Aren’t they aware of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Last century, I remember reading about the “Washington Consensus,” which was a term that was used to describe the kind of policy advice in those days provided to (or imposed upon) the developing world by the IMF, World Bank, and U.S. Treasury. I never studied the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I sometimes mock the New York Times for dodgy and inaccurate writing about economics. Though, to be fair, the paper has many sound journalists who do a good job, so I should be more careful about explaining that the mistakes are the result of specific reporters and...
