by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I put a lot of focus on “convergence” and “divergence” because economic theory says rich countries should not grow faster than poor countries. So when there are examples of divergence, especially when looking at decades of data, we can learn very important...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Regulations
Since I’m a huge fan of Javier Milei’s free-market agenda, it’s very exciting to be in Argentina this week. Two days ago, I shared some slides about Milei’s achievements from the head of the International Chamber of Commerce for Argentina. Today, let’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I wrote about Iran’s awful economic policy three years ago, but let’s revisit the issue now that it is back in the news. But instead of citing Economic Freedom of the World to show Iran’s bad policy, let’s look this time at a visual from...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Regulations, Welfare and Entitlements
So far this decade, I’ve written at least nine columns (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) showing that the United States is out-performing Europe. Since I endlessly complain about bad policy in...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Six years ago, I showed that the United States would be as poor as Mexico if there had been 1-percentage point less annual growth over the past 125 years. John Norberg makes a similar comparison between Sweden and Albania. The entire video is worth...
