by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
For those who want Javier Milei to restore Argentinian prosperity, I shared this video on August 26 about the importance of Argentina’s mid-term elections in October. Unfortunately, there was an early test yesterday in the province of Buenos Aires and it did not go...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2023 | Blogs, Uncategorized
There was a political earthquake in Argentina when a hard-core libertarian got the most votes in the August nationwide presidential primary. Now everyone is paying close attention to Sunday’s general election. Will voters choose Javier Milei in hopes of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I wrote last year about Democrats favoring certain tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit the rich. The state and local tax deduction is an obvious example, but Democrats also are big fans of the tax exemption for municipal bond interest and other provisions that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In an amazing display of incompetence, we still don’t know whether Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg won the Iowa caucus. This has created some opportunities for satire, with people asking how a political party that can’t properly count 200,000 votes somehow can...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
There’s an entire field of economics called “public choice” that analyzes the (largely perverse) incentive structures of politicians and bureaucrats. But is economic analysis also helpful to understand voting and elections? In the past, I’ve suggested that political...
