World Bank Data: Comparing the U.S. and Europe

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market

As I warned a few days ago, Biden’s so-called Build Back Better plan is not dead. There’s still a significant risk that this economy-sapping plan will get enacted, resulting in big tax increases and a larger burden of government spending....

Will Excessive Government Spending Cause Another European Debt Crisis?

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

I’ve periodically warned the European nations such as France, Italy, Greece, and Spain almost surely are doomed to suffer a fiscal crisis. This is because governments in Europe didn’t respond to the 2010 crisis by actually...

What Lessons Can Be Learned by Comparing European Countries and American States?

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe

I regularly cite data about Europe’s sub-par economic outcomes in hopes of driving home the point that the United States should not copy that continent’s approach of onerous fiscal burdens. Which is now a very relevant topic with Biden...

Should the United States Copy the Rest of the World and Enact Paid Parental Leave?

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized

I don’t know whether to be amused or frustrated, but I can’t help but notice that folks on the left frequently argue that the United States needs to make government bigger in order to “catch up” or “shrink the gap” with Europe. President Biden even has said...

Should the United States “Shrink the Gap” with Europe by Increasing Childcare Subsidies?

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2021 | Blogs, Europe

Let’s look today at one of main arguments for Biden’s tax-and-spend agenda. A column in the New York Times, authored by Spencer Bokat-Lindell, suggests that the United States needs to increase government spending on child care to “shrink the gap”...