by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2025 | Blogs
After Friday’s column ranking American presidents, a reader emailed to ask about ranking foreign leaders. I responded by stating that Javier Milei is easily the best in the world. And it’s not even close. Beyond that, I didn’t have any...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve pointed out that Donald Trump and Joe Biden have very unfortunate similarities on issues such as trade and government spending. Sadly, it appears that they also like to engage in victim blaming when bad government policies lead...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2025 | Blogs
In 2020, I put together a ranking of recent presidents, mostly because I wanted to make the point that partisan labels don’t necessarily matter. Indeed, over the past 60-plus years, Republicans were some of the worst in terms of statist policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Building on three videos I shared in 2018 (see here, here, and here), let’s look at another example of Ronald Reagan explaining the benefits of free trade. I’m sharing the above video because the government of Ontario in Canada recently ran an ad featuring excerpts of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
After Trump’s first term, right after he left office, I assessed his economic policy. I pointed out that Trump was good on some issues (taxes and regulation) and bad on others (spending and trade). The net result, I wrote, was that, “his...
