by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
In Part VII of this series about Javier Milei’s libertarian policies in Argentina, I celebrated a 10-percentage point reduction in the nation’s poverty rate. That’s amazing progress in a short amount of time. As shown in this updated chart,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I was not a fan of George W. Bush’s economic policy. But he had one idea – personal retirement accounts – that would have been great news for the country. The Committee to Unleash Prosperity has calculated the nest eggs that average...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
The Social Security Administration has released the yearly forecast of the program’s long-run finances. Per tradition (see 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, etc), that means it is time for my annual explanation of why we have a grim...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I wrote about Iran’s awful economic policy three years ago, but let’s revisit the issue now that it is back in the news. But instead of citing Economic Freedom of the World to show Iran’s bad policy, let’s look this time at a visual from...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 17, 2025 | Blogs, Education
Earlier this year, I lauded Florida for earning the top score in the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Index of State Education Freedom. As you might expect, competition in education means better educational outcomes, so the system...
