by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2026 | Blogs, Europe, Free Market
The good news is that Europe has a lot of economic freedom by world standards. Especially Western Europe. The bad news is that economic freedom has been declining in Western Europe. To make matters worse, Europe has a big demographic problem,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
Building on what I wrote in 2013, here’s a two-minute clip of me arguing that the United States should restore federalism and become more like Switzerland. The above clip comes from a Direct Line interview that covered a wide range of issues, including...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2025 | Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote earlier this month about pervasive corruption and fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid program. Now that the issue has become big national news (I first started writing about Medicaid scams more than 12 years ago), let’s take a more detailed look...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Tax Harmonization
My views on the European Union are summarized in my three–part series entitled “Yes to Globalization, No to Global Governance.” In other words, I liked the European Union in the past when it was basically a free-trade pact among European...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Let’s start today’s column with this reminder from John Stossel that federal involvement in education has produced bad outcomes and that the Department of Education should be abolished. The good news is that President Trump does not like that bureaucracy. He’s...
