by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
The most persuasive data, when comparing the United States and Scandinavia, are the numbers showing that Americans of Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian descent produce much more prosperity than those who remained in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Paul Krugman has butchered numbers when writing about fiscal policy in nations such as France, Estonia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Today, we’re going to peruse his writings on Denmark. Here’s some of what he wrote earlier this month. Denmark can teach us…about...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
The United States has a bankrupt Social Security system. According to the most recent Trustees Report, the cash-flow deficit is approaching $44 trillion. And that’s after adjusting for inflation. Even by DC standards of profligacy, that’s a big number. Yet all that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
In yesterday’s column, I shared a humorous video mocking the everywhere-its-ever-been-tried global failure of socialism. And I tried to preempt the typical response of my left-wing friends by pointing out that Scandinavian nations are not role models for statism. In...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 27, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
Statists occasionally get very angry about some of my views. My support for “tax havens” periodically seems to touch a raw nerve, for instance, though I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised since some people are so crazy that they have even urged military action against...
