by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
There’s a recipe for growth and prosperity. It’s called capitalism. As Dan Hannan explains in this video, it’s the way to help all groups in a society become richer. This is a great video about how free enterprise delivers prosperity for the masses. And...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
This video from Dan Hannan crams 10,000 years of human history into 5 minutes. We learn about the “stationary bandit” of government and find out how our ancestors endured pervasive oppression and misery. But there’s a happy ending to the story. It’s called capitalism....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Back in 2014, I shared two videos – one narrated by Deirdre McCloskey and the other narrated by Don Boudreaux – explaining how the world went from near-universal poverty to mass prosperity (at least in the nations that embraced free markets and the rule of law)....
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
What’s the most noxious example of hypocrisy from the political class? Is it left wingers from Obama’s cabinet utilizing tax havens while supporting higher taxes for the rest of us peasants? Or how about politicians who voted for Obamacare and are now trying to exempt...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Daniel Hannan is a member of the European Parliament from England. He is one of the few economically sensible people in that body, as demonstrated in these short clips of him speaking about tax competition and deriding the European Commission’s corrupt racket. And as...
