by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
There’s some amateur foreign-policy analysis in this video clip, but notice what I say about trends in Chinese economic policy. Today’s column is going to show that China’s economic improvement – indeed, its entire post World War II history – has a very simple...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
In Part I of this series back in 2014, we looked at some academic research from Canada showing that the revenue-maximizing tax rate on the richest taxpayers was 27.5 percent. A key insight from that research is that high-income taxpayers have...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Trump’s best issue is regulation. His worst issue is trade. Sadly, we’re going to look the latter topic today’s column. It’s the one-year anniversary of his disastrous “Liberation Day” trade taxes, so let’s investigate what’s happened since that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
President Lyndon Johnson (in)famously declared a War on Poverty back in the 1960s and the net result was a bloated welfare state and more government dependency. Most depressing, poverty had been declining before LBJ expanded the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Here’s the latest data looking at how poverty has dramatically declined since the advent of capitalism, courtesy of Our World in Data at Oxford University. I wanted to begin today’s column with this uplifting data because we’re going to be focusing on how to help the...
