by Dan Mitchell | Jul 12, 2025 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The private sector is more efficient than the government because businesses know they have to please customers if they want to make profits. Governments, by contrast, simply rely on coercion. People generally don’t have choices and they typically comply...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Part I of this video series gave a brief summary of how Javier Milei’s free market policies have rejuvenated Argentina’s economy. But more reform is needed and this second video makes the case for labor market deregulation. Politicians impose so-called...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
For many years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), Greece has been one of my go-to examples for bad government policy. But that’s changed this decade. I wrote earlier this...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2025 | Blogs, States
Why is the private sector efficient and the government inefficient? I answered that question back in 2017, noting that there is feedback (both positive and negative) in the private sector. With government, by contrast, it seems that there are no consequences...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2025 | Argentina, Latin American Liberty Project
He escrito extensamente sobre las increíbles reformas libertarias que está implementando Javier Milei en Argentina. Aquí hay un video muy breve que celebra sus logros. Excepto que el título de esta columna es engañoso. Lo que está sucediendo en Argentina es muy...