by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Government Spending
Vietnam’s economic trajectory is similar to China’s. Horrible poverty and even starvation (in the case of China) during the days of hard-core communism. Less poverty today thanks to a few pro-market reforms starting in the 1980s. Still low-to-middle income...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My primary criticism of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is that the Paris-based international bureaucracy is trying to become some sort of global tax enforcer for left-wing policy. Indeed, I founded CF&P in 2000 precisely because the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
My recent book explains that we are stumbling our way to a fiscal crisis. If there’s any hope of avoiding a disaster, it will probably happen when and if good members of Congress (a vanishing breed) refuse to allow an increase in the debt...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2025 | Blogs, Society
While I have a few opinions related to fires and natural disasters (government firefighters are usually overpaid, FEMA shouldn’t exist, etc), I’m not going to comment on how government officials in California have handled the fire. Simply stated, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2025 | Blogs, States
In this 12-second video, Margaret Thatcher is talking about the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, but her warning has universal application. And when I say her warning has universal application, I’m not joking. Politicians generally can’t resist the temptation to...
