by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve written several times about the issue of the gender pay gap, mostly to point out that our friends on the left are wrong when they assert that there is pervasive and significant sex discrimination in wage levels. When debating this...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Immigration, Society
Back in early 2009, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video to explain the universal recipe for growth and prosperity. The core message, if you want to skip the six-minute video, is that nations will become richer if they have a good mix of these...
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...
