by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 13, 2012 | Blogs, Financial Privacy
The price of American citizenship only seems to get costlier – and I’m not just talking about high taxes. For Americans living or working overseas, excessive US regulations are becoming a disruptive burden, as exemplified by this disclaimer from Swiss PKB...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2012 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
I have great fondness for Estonia, in part because it was the first post-communist nation to adopt the flat tax, but also because of the country’s remarkable scenery. Most recently, though, I’ve been bragging about Estonia (along with Latvia and Lithuania, the other...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
It seems I was put on the planet to educate people about the negative economic impact of excessive government. Though I must be doing a bad job because the burden of the public sector keeps rising. But hope springs eternal. To help make the case, I’ve cited research...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
A problem in Washington is that people who specialize in particular fields are tempted to exaggerate the importance of their issues. To cite a couple of examples: People who work on monetary policy think their issue is most important, and you can understand why after...
by Brian Garst | Jan 30, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics, Free Market
During his State of the Union speech, President Obama expressed his desire for an “economy built to last,” an oxymoron emblematic of the President’s embrace of Keynesianism and other failed economic philosophies. Simply put, strong economies are not...
