by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2025 | Blogs, Europe
I left Iceland this morning, where I spoke at a conference examining whether that island nation in the North Atlantic should join the European Union. My speech focused on the European Union’s economic performance (which is anemic and on...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 29, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve written many times about how Americans are much richer than Europeans. And I’ve also written many times that the U.S. economy has been growing faster (which shouldn’t happen according to convergence theory). There’s a...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 7, 2024 | Blogs, Europe, Monetary Policy
If you asked a reasonably competent economics student to explain why there was a surge of inflation in the eurozone in 2022, that person presumably would be familiar with Milton Friedman’s wisdom and immediately would investigate whether there was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending
Back in April, I warned that European governments were spending too much, sewing the seeds of another fiscal crisis (aided and abetted by the European Commission). Let’s expand on that issue today, focusing specifically on the eurozone (the European nations that use...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2023 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
After eight years of being head of the International Monetary Fund, where she seemingly specialized in pushing for bailouts, bigger government, and higher taxes (conveniently, her lavish salary was tax exempt), Christine Lagarde was...
