by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
For a land-locked nation without many natural resources, Switzerland is remarkably successful. One reason for the country’s success is pro-market policy. Switzerland routinely scores in the top 5 according to both Economic Freedom of the World and Index of Economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
There are many threats to prosperity, both in the short run and long run. A tit-for-tat global trade war that would repeat the mistakes of the 1930s. Punitive class-warfare taxes stifling investment and entrepreneurship. Financial bubbles fueled by the easy-money...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending
I’m not a big fan of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That international bureaucracy is controlled by high-tax nations that want to export bad policy to the rest of the world. As such, the OECD frequently advocates policies that...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I first came to Washington back in the 1980s, there was near-universal support and enthusiasm for a balanced budget amendment among advocates of limited government. The support is still there, I’m guessing, but the enthusiasm is not nearly as intense. There are...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 4, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Being a glass-half-full kind of guy, I look for kernels of good news when examining economic policy around the world. I once even managed to find something to praise about French tax policy. And I can assure you that’s not a very easy task. I particularly try to find...
