by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2017 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I like the Baltic nations, as illustrated by what I wrote last year. I’m a big fan of…Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These three countries emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Empire and they have taken advantage of their independence to become successful...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 5, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I’m a fan of the Baltic nations in part because they were among the first to adopt flat tax systems after the collapse of the Soviet empire. But tax reform was just the beginning. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have liberalized across the board as part of their...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Flat Tax, Taxation
I’m a big fan of the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These three countries emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Empire and they have taken advantage of their independence to become successful market-driven economies. One key to their relative...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 15, 2016 | Blogs, Taxation
A couple of days ago, I wrote about the new rankings from the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report and noted that America’s private sector is considered world class but that our public sector ranks poorly compared to many other developed nations. To...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 19, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Communism is an evil system. Freedom is squashed and people are merely cogs in a system where government exercises total control over the economy and destroys the lives of ordinary people. It also erodes the social capital of a people, telling them that individual...
