by Dan Mitchell | Oct 26, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I’ve warned many times that Italy is the next Greece. Simply stated, there’s a perfect storm of bad news. Government is far too big, debt is too high, and the economy is too sclerotic. I’ve always assumed that the country would suffer a full-blown fiscal crisis when...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2018 | Blogs, Europe
If you look at the top of your screen on my home page, you’ll notice that I have a collection of special pages such as the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame and examples of what happens when you mix government and sex. I’m thinking of creating a new page, but I need a pithy way...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Because of their aggressive support for bigger government, my least-favorite international bureaucracies are the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But I’m increasingly displeased by the European Bank for...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I periodically share data comparing the United States and Europe, usually because I want to convince people that America’s medium-sized welfare state is better (less worse) than Europe’s bloated welfare states. In other words, Bernie Sanders is wrong. But I sometimes...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2018 | CF&P Foundation Prosperitas Studies, Publications
[PDF Version] April 2018, Vol. XII, Issue I The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Cronyism and Corruption Instead of Growth The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was created in 1990 to help former Soviet-Bloc nations make the transition...
