by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
Part I of this series showed higher wages and better housing in the United States, while Part II showed an ever-larger GDP advantage for America. Part III will begin with this John Stossel video. Sven Larson is an Associate Scholar at CF&P, so I’m...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2025 | Blogs, Europe
The American version of the Green New Deal included some subsidies for inefficient wind and solar, but it was largely just a marketing gimmick for a big expansion in the burden of government (everything from Medicare for All to student...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Regulations, Welfare and Entitlements
So far this decade, I’ve written at least nine columns (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) showing that the United States is out-performing Europe. Since I endlessly complain about bad policy in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2025 | Blogs, Education, Europe
As usual (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc), let’s start the year by listing three things I’m hoping for and three things I worry may happen. Let’s start with the good things that hopefully will happen this year....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2024 | Blogs, Europe
In April of 2023, I wrote about the fact that there is more spending and more debt in the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain) compared to levels before the last European fiscal crisis. In December of 2023, I wrote about the growing burden of...
