by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Let’s start today’s column with a refresher look at my video on the Rahn Curve. Though maybe it should be called the Armey Curve. Or even the Barro Curve since Professor Robert Robert Barro from Harvard graphed the relationship between government...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
In Part I of this series, I explained that modern welfare states are in deep trouble because of falling birth rates. The core of the problem is that entitlement programs generally tax young people to subsidize old people. And fewer babies today means fewer workers...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Tax Harmonization
My views on the European Union are summarized in my three–part series entitled “Yes to Globalization, No to Global Governance.” In other words, I liked the European Union in the past when it was basically a free-trade pact among European...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Building on the first three installments in this series (available here, here, and here), let’s start Part IV with a video from an Australian think tank. Javier Milei’s economy minister can be proud of what’s been accomplished. Free-market reforms have...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
I get a good amount of feedback on my Theorems of Government, including many suggestions that I turn them into a book (a semi-appealing idea, but I’m a bit discouraged that my last book didn’t have the impact I hoped). Other people ask me to identify my...
