by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
I was in Bratislava earlier today as part of the Free Market Road Show, where I spoke about how European nations are in trouble because of excessive spending and aging populations. But I’m not going to write about my presentation because Peter Gonda of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2019 | Blogs
During my early years in public policy, back in the late 1980s, I repeatedly crossed swords with people who argued that Washington should have more power over the economy so that the United States could compete with Japan, which supposedly was an economic juggernaut...
by Sven R. Larson | Sep 24, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Energy
The 20th century was full of examples, large and small, of what grand-scale economic planning does to an economy, and its people. Sadly, that wealth of experience has not deterred socialists from trying over and over again. One of the many examples of our time is...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
In 2016, I toured the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia, which memorializes the victims of communist butchery in that nation. Earlier today, I was lucky enough to get a tour through the House of Terror, a museum in Budapest that commemorates the horrors that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I’ve always viewed Ayn Rand’s most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, as a warning about the dangers of over-regulation, over-taxation, and excessive redistribution. I won’t spoil the plot for those who haven’t yet read the book, but it’s basically a story about what...
