The President’s desired taxes on capital will hit more than just the rich, and might even lose revenue.

Throwing cold water on Scandimania.

Europe’s large welfare states are dragging the continent down.

Singapore civil servants get monetary rewards that rise and fall with economic performance.

Ill-conceived rules from the White House have made things worse, not better.

Tax competition is good when it involves lower rates for all taxpayers. Corporate handouts and narrow preferences in the name of tax competition, however, are misguided.

The United States has one of the highest capital gains tax rates in the world. The ideal rate is zero.

What we can learned from our northern neighbors.

I’ve had ample reason to praise Hong Kong’s economic policy. Most recently, it was ranked (once again) as the world’s freest economy. And I’ve shown that this makes a difference by comparing Hong Kong’s economic performance to the comparatively lackluster (or weak) performance of economies in the United States, Argentina, and France. But perhaps the most encouraging thing about […]

I’m not a big fan of Obamanomics. I don’t like the President’s class-warfare mentality on taxes. I don’t like his support for Keynesian spending policy. And I don’t like his costly expansions of government such as Obamacare. Indeed, I even like mocking his reflexive statism. That being said, I fully agree (albeit with some important caveats) with his observation that the United States […]