by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
One of my traditions, which started in 2013, is to share the year’s best and worst policy outcomes of the past 365 days. For instance, last year I celebrated Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in the United Kingdom and also was very happy that Colorado voters preserved...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
China is a success if you consider how economic freedom increased after Mao’s death and hundreds of millions of people were lifted out of unimaginable poverty. But I explain in this interview that China is also a failure because the reforms were too limited and the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
If you want to understand how government really works, learn about “public choice.” This is the common-sense theory that politicians and other people in politics often make decisions based on self interest, and it does a very good job of explaining why we get so many...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I have applauded the incredible economic success of Hong Kong, which has long been ranked as the world’s most economically free jurisdiction. Well, given China’s recent decision to impose more controls on Hong Kong, I want to share this interview I did last October....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Trade
Time for my annual column highlighting the “Best” and “Worst” policy developments of the year, a tradition I sort of started in 2012 and definitely did in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. I’m trying to be a glass-half-full kind of guy, so we’ll start with the...
