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...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Way back in 2009, I cited a very good article in The American Spectator in hopes of getting people to understand that the United States does not have a capitalist health care system (and I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 28, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I often get asked when the United States will suffer a Greek-style fiscal crisis. My answer is always “I don’t know,” though I freely admit we are heading in that direction. My lack of specificity isn’t merely because economists are lousy...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Honest leftists (the “Okunites“) generally acknowledge that laissez-faire policies deliver more growth, but they nonetheless favor high taxes and redistribution because they argue that social equality matters a lot. However, according to this chart, there’s...
