by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation
What’s the main fiscal and/or economic problem in the European Union? Is it that the burden of taxes and spending is very onerous today?Or is it that the burden of taxes and spending will become more onerous in the future? The easy and correct...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
My biggest economic concern is that the United States, because of population aging and poorly designed entitlement programs, is slowly but surely going to become a European-style welfare state. To help convince people that this is a bad outcome, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 3, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
I frequently call attention to my “anti-convergence club” because it shows – using decades of data – that you get more prosperity in nations with more economic liberty. And that’s true everyplace in the world. Including in Eastern Europe, as we can see from...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending
As part of “European Fiscal Policy Week,” I’ve complained about bad Italian fiscal policy, bad Europe-wide fiscal policy, bad British fiscal policy, and also the unhelpful role of the European Union. But I want to end the week on an...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
The European Union started as a good idea (unfettered free trade between member nations) and has morphed into a troubling idea (a super-state based on centralization, harmonization, and bureaucratization). And I fear it is heading further in...
