by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
I’m opposed to globalism (because global governance means bigger government), but I’m in favor of globalization (because free trade makes us richer). So I largely approve of this video from the Economist. This video is basically an...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Education
Although it is only 2023, the 2020s already can be categorized as the decade of school choice thanks to legislation in West Virginia, Arizona, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, and North Carolina. The main...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
There was a lot of bad policy during the pandemic, with the health bureaucracies (the CDC and FDA) being especially incompetent. But we also got lots of policy mistakes from elected officials, including trillions of dollars of fraud-riddled...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 21, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Russia’s government has been appropriately criticized for invading Ukraine, but let’s focus today on Putin’s economic mismanagement. I’m motivated by this tweet from a professor at the University of Chicago. He points out that Russians were richer than...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Since I’m a policy wonk with a keen interest in international and comparative economics, I write every year (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, etc) about the annual release of Economic Freedom of the World, published by the Fraser Institute in...
