by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2025 | Blogs, Education, Europe
As usual (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc), let’s start the year by listing three things I’m hoping for and three things I worry may happen. Let’s start with the good things that hopefully will happen this year....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Almost every year (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, etc), I review the Fraser Institute’s annual report on Economic Freedom of North America. The 2024 version has just been released, so let’s look at some key findings. Since...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Economists widely agree with the theory of “convergence,” which is the (mostly true) idea that poor nations should grow faster than rich nations as they catch up (converge). But there are exceptions. Sometimes a richer country will grow faster than...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
Less than two months ago, I shared a chart looking at tax burdens on saving and investment in the industrialized world. The nation with the lowest tax burden on capital was Lithuania (unsurprisingly, all of the Baltic countries scored...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
From a big-picture perspective, the Canadian government does the most damage to the nation’s economy with bad tax policy, bad spending policy, bad health policy, bad monetary policy, and other expensive mistakes. But sometimes it is...
