by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2022 | Blogs
I’m currently in Tanzania as part of a speaking tour in Africa. My remarks today largely repeated the message I gave to an audience last week in Nigeria. So I won’t bother sharing anything from my presentation. Instead, I want to highlight some numbers from...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 5, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Traditional economics, specifically convergence theory, tells us that poor nations should grow faster than rich nations. I’m more interested, however, in why convergence often doesn’t happen, or only partially happens. And I’m extremely interested in why we often...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
According to the most-recent edition of Economic Freedom of the World, Brazil is only ranked #120, which is lower than nations such as Greece, Haiti, and China. Brazil gets a horrible grade on regulation, and it’s also in the bottom half of all nations when looking...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2019 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I have a confession. I miss Obama. On the issue of guns, at least. He was so wrong, yet so ineffective, that it was almost funny. Heck, it was funny. Fortunately, he’s decided to make an encore performance. So there’s a new opportunity to puncture his pious...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2019 | Blogs, Trade
I started my end-of-year “best and worst” series back in 2013, but didn’t begin my start-of-year “hopes and fears” series until 2017. In that first year, I got part of what I hoped for (some tax reform and a bit of regulatory easing) and part of what I feared...
