by Andrew F. Quinlan | Nov 4, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Blaze on November 2, 2015. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public crackdown on corruption has captivated Western media, leading to sensational stories like recent reports that golf club membership is among the newly announced list of...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 28, 2015 | Blogs, Free Market
At the risk of stereotyping, the Chinese people are remarkably productive when given the chance. Hong Kong and Singapore are dominated by ethnic Chinese, and those jurisdictions routinely rank among the world’s top economies. Taiwan is another high-performing economy...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
Is the third time the charm, at least for bailouts? First, we had the TARP bailout in the United States, and that turned out to be a corrupt mess. Second, we had the Greek bailout, which has squandered hundreds of billions of euros to prop up a welfare state. Now we...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 11, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
When I first got to Washington in the mid-1980s, one of the big issues was the supposedly invincible Japanese economy. Folks on the left claimed that Japan was doing well because the government had considerable power to micro-manage the economy with industrial policy....
by Andrew F. Quinlan | May 19, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared in The Washington Times on May 18, 2015. To supplement profits that have been hamstrung by slowing domestic growth, Western companies are turning to emerging markets with greater frequency. Participation in those markets, however, is...
