by Dan Mitchell | May 9, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m currently in Finland for meetings with various people and I learned that the country’s bloated public sector and expensive welfare state are imposing a very heavy cost on the economy. How heavy of a cost? According to IMF data, there’s...
by Dan Mitchell | May 2, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
Switzerland is a role model (the freest nation, the most-sensible nation, etc) and France is suffering from statism (biggest spending burden, confiscatory taxes, etc). As such, nobody should be surprised to learn that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
I first started writing about the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual report about red tape back in 2010. The newest edition was just released, so let’s take a depressing look at America’s regulatory burden. We’ll start with the chart showing...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
Building on my four-part series (here, here, here, and here) explaining the case against socialism and my five-part series (here, here, here, here, and here) on socialism in the modern world, today’s column will look at the economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I thought I found the sure winner of the counter-tweet of the year back in February when @jmhorp debunked a silly and illiterate tweet from @ATLCWorker. The inescapable conclusion from that exchange was that capitalism is the best...
