by Dan Mitchell | Mar 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Which European nation has the costliest welfare state? Greece would be a good guess, but it’s only in second place. At the top of the list, according to OECD data, is France, where government spending consumes nearly 60 percent of the nation’s economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2023 | Blogs
Back in 2019, I divided China’s recent economic history into three periods. Mao’s utter and total failureDeng’s partial liberalizationXi’s backsliding to statism The net result of these three periods is that China did enjoy some growth thanks...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
My Democratic friends correctly argue that Republicans have a corruption problem and my GOP friends correctly argue that Democrats have a corruption problem. I wish both sides would recognize that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation
What’s the main fiscal and/or economic problem in the European Union? Is it that the burden of taxes and spending is very onerous today?Or is it that the burden of taxes and spending will become more onerous in the future? The easy and correct...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I don’t like Joe Biden’s economic policies, though that’s hardly a surprise since I haven’t liked the policies of any president this century (I’ve referred to Bush, Obama, and Trump as the “three stooges of big government“). Other people have a more...
