by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2013 | Blogs, Economics
I’m in Vienna, Austria, for the annual European Resource Bank meeting. I had the pleasure last night of listening to Jose Pinera speak about economic reform in Chile, particularly the system of personal retirement accounts. He shared a chart that conclusively shows...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Health Care
I’ve complained ad nauseam about how government has screwed up the health sector, both because of spending programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and because of tax and regulatory distortions that have mutated the supposedly private insurance market into some bizarre...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2013 | Blogs, Economics
I had the gall to share a video yesterday of me lecturing for an hour about the economics of public policy (followed by another hour of Q&A). Though I also included this link to a six-minute video on the same topic for folks who just wanted to skim the surface....
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I’ve narrated a video that cites Economic Freedom of the World data to explain the five major factors that determine economic performance. But that video is only six minutes long, so I only skim the surface. For those of you who feel that you’re missing out, you can...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2013 | Blogs, Economics
With many European nations already in the midst of a fiscal crisis caused by excessive government, and with most other industrialized nations heading down the same path thanks to aging populations and poorly designed entitlement programs, this would be a good time for...
