by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Regulations, Trade
Back in 2017, I graded Trump’s first 100 days and I followed in 2018 by grading his first year. So let’s grade the first year of Trump’s encore presidency and we’ll start with this report card. As you can see, I’m only grading Trump’s economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
Building on what I wrote in 2013, here’s a two-minute clip of me arguing that the United States should restore federalism and become more like Switzerland. The above clip comes from a Direct Line interview that covered a wide range of issues, including...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 14, 2026 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
With so many bad things happening in Washington, I almost feel guilty writing about another country. But since I’m in Mexico City teaching at Universidad de la Libertad, I want to write at least one column about Mexican economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
In 2016, here’s some of what I wrote about the economic outlook in Illinois. And I shared the same observation when writing about California in 2018. There’s a somewhat famous quote from Adam Smith (“there is a great deal of ruin in a nation“)...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Thanks to President Javier Milei, Argentina is the world’s most exciting and encouraging nation for public policy. In just two short years, Milei’s libertarian reforms have pulled the country out of an economic...
