by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My primary criticism of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is that the Paris-based international bureaucracy is trying to become some sort of global tax enforcer for left-wing policy. Indeed, I founded CF&P in 2000 precisely because the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2025 | Blogs
I mocked economists yesterday. To be more specific, I eviscerated 108 leftist economists who signed a letter warning that Javier Milei’s libertarian agenda would be bad for Argentina. They now look like idiots given that country’s amazing turnaround....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
It’s easy to mock economists. Consider the supposedly prestigious left-leaning academics who asserted in 2021 that Biden’s agenda was not inflationary. At the risk of understatement, they wound up with egg on their faces.* Today, we’re going to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Six years ago, I showed that the United States would be as poor as Mexico if there had been 1-percentage point less annual growth over the past 125 years. John Norberg makes a similar comparison between Sweden and Albania. The entire video is worth...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Two years ago, I expressed guarded optimism about the economy and government policy. …we don’t need perfect policy to get more prosperity. The economy simply needs “breathing room,” which will exist so long as politicians don’t get too crazy about...
