by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
Having grown up during the Cold War, I never though I would write a sentence like the title of this blog post, but there have been lots of firsts during the reign of Obama. When the head of a major multinational company says the American tax system is worse than the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 13, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Government Spending
I was part of a debate for an English-language Russian TV program on the international implications of economic policy, particularly with regard to the United States and China. My job was simple because I am not a big fan of either nation’s policy. Government...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
One of my first blog posts (and the first one to get any attention) highlighted the amusing/embarrassing irony of having Chinese students laugh at Treasury Secretary Geithner when he claimed the United States had a strong-dollar policy. I suspect that even Tim...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The news that China has surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy has generated a lot of attention. It shouldn’t. There are roughly 10 times as many people in China as there are in Japan, so the fact that total gross domestic product in China is now bigger...