by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve repeatedly cited monthly data from the Labor Department to show that workers have struggled during the Biden-Harris years because inflation has increased faster than wages. Those monthly numbers specifically show that workers...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Less than two weeks ago, I wrote about anemic economic performance in Europe. So I was very interested to see that the European Commission just issued a report about improving European Competitiveness. Spearheaded by Mario Draghi, the former...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve been arguing for a long time that we need tax simplification rather than a bigger budget for the IRS. The clowns in Washington have a different perspective, however, and they approved the Biden-Harris plan to dramatically...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I periodically explain that the world is a laboratory, filled with experiments that teach (or should teach) that we get more prosperity with free markets and limited government. Today, let’s look at the global laboratory and see what it teaches us...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Free Market
It’s an annual tradition (2023, 2022, 2021…all the way back to 2010) to write about the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. Since most people care about relative rankings, I’ll start with a look at the 25 nations that have the most...
