by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
Regular readers know that I’m not a big fan of the international bureaucracies. I don’t like the International Monetary Fund because it encourages bad policy by bailing out nations such as Greece. I don’t like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
by Brian Garst | May 4, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Regulations
I mentioned the other day a claim from CEI that regulatory burdens cost the economy nearly $2 trillion in 2008. The Phoenix Center also recently produced a policy bulletin examining the costs of the regulatory state (Hat-tip: Big Government). In quantifying the...
by CF&P | Apr 19, 2011 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 19 2011 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Three Senators Ask for Withdrawal of Destructive IRS Regulation (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 19, 2011) The Center for Freedom and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2011 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Okay, the title’s an exaggeration, but this chart is rather revealing. It shows how per-capita GDP has changed between 1980 and 2008 in Chile, Argentina, and Venezuela. As you can see, Chile used to be the poorest of the three countries and now it is comparatively...
by Brian Garst | Dec 6, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth
Although not necessarily the intent of this video, the impressive data visualization makes it hard not to see just how profoundly the spread of freedom and capitalism has dramatically improved the lives of billions throughout the world in such an historically short...
