by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote yesterday about the Hayek Socialism Index, which showed Hong Kong getting the best score, followed by Liechtenstein and Monaco (with North Korea getting the worst score). Today, let’s focus specifically on Argentina since the Index gives...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
There’s some amateur foreign-policy analysis in this video clip, but notice what I say about trends in Chinese economic policy. Today’s column is going to show that China’s economic improvement – indeed, its entire post World War II history – has a very simple...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
In Part I of this series back in 2014, we looked at some academic research from Canada showing that the revenue-maximizing tax rate on the richest taxpayers was 27.5 percent. A key insight from that research is that high-income taxpayers have...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Trump’s best issue is regulation. His worst issue is trade. Sadly, we’re going to look the latter topic today’s column. It’s the one-year anniversary of his disastrous “Liberation Day” trade taxes, so let’s investigate what’s happened since that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
President Lyndon Johnson (in)famously declared a War on Poverty back in the 1960s and the net result was a bloated welfare state and more government dependency. Most depressing, poverty had been declining before LBJ expanded the...
