by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
In Part I of this series, I explained that Singapore’s pro-market policies allowed it to catch up – and then surpass – the United States. Let’s start Part II with a video explaining the country’s climb to prosperity. I’m motivated to write...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I’m back in Argentina, the South American country with the world’s best leader. What Javier Milei has accomplished is amazing. And the economic effects have been wonderful. One of my meetings earlier this week was with Marcelo Elizondo, the head of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
I recently wrote about the five potential ways of dealing with Social Security’s simmering crisis and noted that most supposed solutions moved us in the wrong direction on the spectrum. And I wrote less than two months ago about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Last month, I shared this minute-long video to celebrate Javier Milei’s accomplishments but also to explain that more reforms are needed to unwind the 80-year disaster of Peronism. I won’t rehash Milei’s accomplishments in this column, other than to direct people to...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
A couple of days ago, I had an email exchange with some Trumpie friends who asserted that the recent GDP report (3 percent inflation-adjusted growth) was proof that Trump’s protectionist trade policy has been successful. Given the underlying details...
